Unit5 Ambitions and Dreams

Unit5 Ambitions and Dreams Learn to talk about personality and jobs Practice talking about the future Language Focus Learnhow to use the past perfecttense

Review A 1. Mary ____ slim when she was young. • A. used to be B. is used to C. uses to be D. is use to 2. The boy ____ father is a worker studies very hard. • A. who’s B. whose C. which D. that 3. He always spends 3 hours __ his homework. • A. do B. to do C. done D. doing 4. A new hotel ____ in the centre of town at the moment. • A. has been built B. is built C. is being built 5. The article ___ he wrote has been published several times. A. who B. which C. whom D. whose B D C B

Discussing: Lead in • In order to get along well with others, we should know much about the person who are around us. Can you share something with your classmates?

What kind of person do you think he/she is? honest patient humourous hard-working funny mature dynamic(有活力的) energetic charming creative persistent esay-going… jealous moody ill-tempered selfish cranky(任性的,暴躁的) arrogant (骄傲自大的) offish (冷漠的) indecisive timid…

Task1 Learn to talk about personality and jobs Divide the words into the three groups below. page73 A good team workera sharp mindbright an excellent memory a good eye for detailmoody a good team leaderdynamic positive easy-goinga motivatorpatient intelligent a good organizercalm hard-workingcharming Intelligence Personality Working Practices

Self-recognition • Personality • Are you always interested in meeting new people? • Do you get frustrated with discussing things and want to start doing things? • Are you ambitious and are there still things you want to achieve? • Are you patient when other people do not understand something quickly? • Are you happy to do things the way another person suggests? • Do you always want to be first in a competition or exam? • Read the quiz and answer the questions Yes or NO.

Now you can give yourself a score • Personality • 1. yes=A, No=B • 2. Yes=B, No=A • 3 Yes=B, No=A • 4. yes=A, No=B • 5. yes=A, No=B • 6. Yes=B, No=A

Now let’s read the advice • Personality: • More As. You are more interested in caring for people than making decisions and controlling situations. Consider a career in education, social work or medicine, such as doctor, teacher, lecturer or counsellor. • More Bs. You probably enjoy jobs that involve control, business or management. Consider a career in a large company in marketing or finance or an organization, such as the police or the army.

Task 2 Talking about the Future You can also write some sentences to talk about your plan in the future. For example: According to the questionnaire I should work as / train as _______(doctor, teacher of young children, university lecturer/ company director, police officer, solider, counsellor, social worker…..), Because I enjoy……./ am interested in………. Therefore, I am going to/hope to/plan to / would like to/ look forward to ……..have a chance of working…

表有关工作和将来计划的一些常见句型: He /she / my father (--) works as an engineer/ doctor/ teacher---. As a doctor, ------- His dream is to be ------ He trained as a ballet dancer. I am going to….. I plan/am planning to…… I look forward to…. I would like to…… I want/hope to…….

An Extraordinary change of Direction Language Focus: Reading: • Read the text on page 67 and answer the sentences.

Read and Answer the questions below: To raise money for charity • 1. Why did Molly Wilson decide to sail round the world? • 2. Why did she retire from show business? • 3. What did she do before she left on the ship? • 4. What happened one night? • 5. What kind of person do you think Molly is? She retired so that she could bring her children up. She did a lot of training. A huge wave smashed into the boat and injured two men on the deck. She is very warm-hearted, energetic and persistent.

Words and phrases: He decided to travel around China to raise money for the people who lost their homes in the earthquake. Up to now, he has collected more 10million dollars for the poor. • 1. raise money for…为…筹集资金 2. bring---up 把某人抚养大 He brought up the children in his own way. Nothing can stop her from bringing her daughter up.

A ten-minute walk A twelve-year-old girl A five-year plan 3. the ten-month journey 十个月的旅行 4. Prepare( sb )for sth (使某人)为某事做好准备 This course prepares the students for their English exams. The students are busy preparing for the approaching exam.

The sentences difficult to understand: • 1. Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadn’t prepared her the worst weather which they experienced. 1. 在molly出发之前,她进行了很多的训练,但是训练并没有使她做好遇到最糟糕天气的准备. 2. One night the sea was very rough and it was very cold. 一个晚上大海特别的不平静,并且天气很冷.

Now please find out the sentences including the past perfect tense. • 1. Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she decided to sail round the world… • 2. As a child she had trained as a dancer,… • 3. I was not bored, but I had met some people who told me about the race. • 4. They had taken part in it, but they had only done one section. • 5. Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadn’t prepared her for the worst weather which they experienced. • 6. I had gone downstairs when a huge wave smashed into the boat and…… • 7. Bye the end of October last year, she had raised more than….

Task3 the past perfect tense 过去完成时 1）概念：表示过去的过去 ----|--------------|---------|----> 其构成是had +过去分词构成。过去的过去过去　现在 2）否定式： had not done 3) 一般疑问句： Had the children left home before their mum went to work? 4) 特殊疑问句： Why had she done a lot of training before she sailed?

5) 用法: a. 在told, said, knew, heard, thought等动词后的宾语从句。例如： She said （that）she had never been to Paris. 她告诉我她曾去过巴黎。 b. 状语从句在过去不同时间发生的两个动作中，发生在先，用过去完成时；发生在后，用一般过去时。例如： When the police arrived, the thieves had run away. 警察到达时，小偷们早就跑了。

6)常于过去完成时连用的时间状语before, by, when, after。例如 He said that he had learned some English before. 他说过他以前学过一些英语。 By the time he was twelve, Edison had began to make a living by himself. 到了十二岁那年，爱迪生开始自己谋生。 Tom was disappointed that most of the guests had left when he arrived at the party. 汤姆失望了，因为他到达晚会时，大部分客人已经走了。

特别重要的句型: • Hardly had ----- when ----- • No sonner ----- than -------- • 一……就…… • Hardly had she arrived when the door bell rang.

Exercise1 C • 1. John told Mary that he ______ what he was doing during the vacation. • was just asked b. was just asking • c. had just been asked d. had just asked B • 2. By the end of last year they ______ 1,000 machines. • turned out b. had turned out • c. would turn out d. had been turned out

A • 3. Up till then we ______ half the distance. • had only covered b. covered • c. would only cover d. would be only covered C 4.By the end of last year the railway ______. a. was being completed b. would be completed c. had been completed d. had completed A • 5.He fulfilled the plan earlier than he ______. • had expected b. expecting • c. should expect d. would expect

6.______ when the bell rang. • Hardly would he reach school • b. Hardly had he reached school • c.Hardly he reached school • d. Hardly he was reaching school B 7.He did not arrive until the meeting was nearly over, for the simple reason is that he _____ asleep while watching television. a. had fallen b. has fallen c. fell d. was falling A

Homework Review the unit 5 Finish the exercise on Unit6

Thank You!

Unit5 Ambitions and Dreams