Unit3 Amazing people

1. Unit3 Amazing people

2. Task Writing a biographical article

3. Answer some simple questions: 1. How old are you ? 2.Which floor are you on at school? 3. What is the date today? 4. How old is your father? Skills building 1: Listening for figures

4. Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers Plural form of numbers 1. Kinds of figures

5. (1) Cardinal and Ordinal numbers

6. (2) Plural form of figures

7. 1. 25,000 2. 108,000 3. 32,000 4. 10,200,200 5. 十四点三十分 6.五十周年 7. 五百万四千 8.八十万六百 Can you read out these numbers?

8. Ask one student to say a number and another one to translate it into Chinese. Do it in chain. Game-playing

9. age Susan will be 16 next month. date Tom was born on 17th December 1988. percentage Anna scored 90 percent in her English test. price Susan bought a T-shirt for $ 20. street number Ye Ping lives at 198 Jiangsu Road time Ivy is playing tennis at six o’clock this evening telephone number Please call at 13657659771 fax number My fax is 999,567,534. 2. Figures can refer to

10. We can use certain words and phrases to express an approximate number or to modify a number. about , around, more than, under, at least 3. Modifier of numbers

11. Steve Fossett became interested in balloons in his late(1) _________________.He has been a balloonist for(2) ____________years. He was (3) ____________ Years old when he flew around the world. He finally achieved success when he tried for the (4)____________ time. He swam across the English Channel in (5)_____________. He has broken (6) ________________ world records. P52 Listening 30s 10 58 6th 1985 14

12. Part A: Requirements for speaker: Must be older than _______but younger than ______ Must live in or near __________. Available between the ________of May and the _______of June. Able to speak from _______o’clock until _______o’clock. Prepare a speech of _______hours, with _______hour for questions and answers. Step 1 Finding a speaker for your school 18 35 Nanjing 30th 2nd 10 13 two one

13. 6. Must have achieved something _________ or ___________. 7. Must be able to speak ________ or ________. 8. Nationality: ___________ preferred. 9. Experience as speaker would be __________. 10. __________and outgoing personality. exciting important English Putonghua Chinese helpful friendly

14. Wanted ! Exciting Speaker(2) ___________________is looking for an exciting person to give a talk at our school in May or (3)________. Have you achieved You must be (4) ________ to 35years of something exciting age and live in or near ___________. or (1)_____________? The speaker we choose will Do you want to ．speak(6)_______and(7)__________ inspire students with ．have a friendly and(8) ___________ your experiences? Personality. Part B Your school name June 18 Nanjing important English Putonghua outgoing

15. A CV includes: Identification : name, address, contact information (phone number and e-mail address) Objective : what kind of job you want to get Education: the names of the schools at which you studied and graduation dates Experience: your past jobs, company names, location and position held for past jobs References: names of the persons who once worked or studied with you and their contact information Other: honors you have got, hobbies and interests Skills building 2: reading a CV

16. 1994-1998 Beijing University 1990-1994 No.1 High School Wang Bing * 123 Nanjing Road * 5555 8920 * wbing @ gets job.com Referees: English teacher Ms Lu Xia Football coach Mr Zhang Xi 5555 5433 P54 The CV excerpts (answers)

17. 1 Name: _____________ 2 Home:______________________ ______________________ 3.Male/Female: ________ 4. Age:_____________________ 5. Language spoken: ________________________________ 6. Experience: _____________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Step 2 Introducing a speaker Gao Jian 9407 ZhongShan Nan Road * Flat D* Nanjing* China Female 29 Putonghua(native); English(fluent) 2002-2003 a Goodwill Ambassador for China Travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture 2002 Started a school to help students get accepted to study abroad programmes 1998-2002 Worked as an English teacher in a college

18. ___________________________________________ 7.Achievement(s):_____________________________ ___________________________________________ 8. Interests:__________________________________ 9. Personality:________________________________ 1981-1991 Lived in Australia BA in English; Goodwill Ambassador for China; start a school; a college teacher for many years Travel and adventure Friendly and outgoing

19. 3 important sections Introduction:Who we are going to write about and why we are writing about him/her Body: Details about the person ( what he/she did; what he/she said, his/her opinions, the facts, the statistics, etc.) 3. Conclusion: The important result of his/her deed and what people think about him/her) Skills building 3: organizing information

20. Introduction: __________________________ Body: ________________________________ Conclusion: ___________________________ P56 Part A 9, 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 11, 12

21. E ----C----B----A------D------F Paragraph E tells us who the passage is about Paragraphs C,B,A and D tell us some detailed information about the person in the order of the events that happened Paragraph F is the conclusion of the whole passage. P57 Part B

22. 1. Introduction: who the article is about why a speaker has been invited to the school when she will speak why she is interesting what kind of personality she has Step 3 Writing a biographical article

23. 2. Body : where she was born where she has lived where she lives now where she studied what job(s) she has had what interesting things she has done what her hobbies/ interests are Step 3 Writing a biographical article

24. 3. Conclusion: why your schoolmates should be excited to listen to her what can be learned from listening to her talk Step 3 Writing a biographical article

25. We are going to invite Ms Gao jian to our school to give a speech at the end of this month. She once lived in Australia and has travelled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows China and Chinese culture quite well, and she also knows about the world. She was born in Yangzhou. In 1981she went to Australia and lived there until 1991. The she came back to China and studied In Nanjing No.5 High school. She is good at both Chinese and English. She studied English Language and Literature in Beijing University from 1994 to 1998. After A sample

26. graduation, as a Good will Ambassador for China, she travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture. She likes travel and adventure. In 2002, she started a school to help poor students get accepted to study-abroad progammes. She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming.

27. Homework Write a biographical article

28. Thanks!Bye!