Reading Skills,Text Study,Notes to the Text,Words and Expressions,Prediction,Decide Your Choice,I. Prediction,Reading Skills,Predicting is using the text to guess what will happen next. Then readers confirm or reject their prediction as they read. Predicting is a reading strategy used before and during reading. A technique to apply to this reading strategy is to use the Think-Pair-Share method.,Take Text A of Unit 9 as an example.,II. Decide Your Choice,Reading Skills,Looking at the title of the passage Premarital Agreement, we may ask: What is premarital agreement? What are the benefits of premarital agreement? Was premarital agreement interesting?,After reading the first three paragraphs, youll know: Premarital agreement are designed to address the problems of the division of financial assets as they arise.,Then you go on reading. After reading about the case of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, you may raise another question: a. How can we get benefits from the prenups? b. Who gets benefits from prenups? c. Who needs prenups?,Reading Skills,Reading Skills,After reading paragraph 8, you may again ask: a. How should prenups be made? b. Why is a prenup needed?,You keep asking questions and confirm your predictions as you keep reading on. When you finish the article, you will have all the questions answered.,Blank Filling,Text Study,The Major Findings of the Report,1. Marriages are dissolving with increasing frequency due to _, _, _, and _.,abandonment,separation,divorce,death of a spouse,2. Parents in their prime years face _ _ caring for _ and _.,children,parents,growing,burdens,3. _ are increasingly common everywhere.,Unmarried/single mothers,4. Children in single-parent households are much more likely to _.,be overtaken by poverty,5. _ are carrying increasing _ responsibility for children. 6. Women around the world tend to work _ than men, both _ or _. 7. _ usually contributes a larger proportion of their income to their households. 8. Its very difficult to _ from father.,collect child support,Women,longer hours,in the office,at home,Mothers,economic,Text Study,1. Family _. 2. Divorce rate _. 3. Households _. 4. Womens _ are becoming increasingly important.,is no longer a stable and orderly unit,is rising worldwide,become everywhere,economic contributions,Conclusions,Text Study,Focus Study,Active Expressions,I. Active Expressions,1. in which father serves as economic provider and mother serves as emotional 2. The themeshould bring about new thinking on social policy, 3. Experts say, and in particular an increase in the importance of families in the agenda 4. High rates of inflation may raise to the point where women.,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Practice,Active Expressions,1. 2008年，他再次出任駐聯合國代表。 2. 這藥應該是藥到病除的。 3. 易碎物品，尤其是玻璃，需要特殊包裝。 4. 請不要離題。,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,1. In 2008, he served again as a delegate to the United Nations. 2. This drug should bring about a cure. 3. Fragile goods in particular glasses, need special packing. 4. Keep to the point please!,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,More Practice,我們以此為憑。 口誤經常產生意外的結果。 老師特別提到了你最近的進步。 你說到點子上了。,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,This will serve as our certification. 2. A slip of the tongue often bring about unexpected result. 3. The teacher mentioned your recent progress in particular. 4. You are to the point.,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,1. The idea that a family is a stable and orderly unit in which father serves as economic provider and mother serves as emotional care giver is a myth.,Notes to the TextFocus Study,II. Focus Study,The idea is a myth,that a family is a unit,in which father serves care giver,Notes to the TextFocus Study,Noun (fact, news, idea ) + that (how, whether, what ),Practice,The appositive clause:,e.g. The news that they had won the game soon spread over the whole school.,Notes to the TextFocus Study,I have no impression _ he went home, perhaps by bike. I have no idea _ he will be back. Well discuss the problem _ the sports meeting will be held on time. The thought came to him _ maybe the enemy had fled the city. He often asked me the question _ the work was worth doing.,how,when,whether,that,whether,Fill in the blanks with proper guided words.,2. The Population Council report says women around the world tend to work longer hours than men, both at home and on the job.,Notes to the TextFocus Study,Practice,both and 和 （兩者）都 既又,Notes to the TextFocus Study,迪克和蒂娜都在看書。 丈夫唱歌和妻子跳舞的時候我們都分別鼓掌叫好。,Both Dick and Tina are reading. We applauded both when the man sang and when the wife danced.,Matching Games,Word Using,Three pupils were eventually rescued 87 hours after undergoing the earthquake.,晚上10點，三名小學生在遭受地震87小時后獲救。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,I. Word Using,undergo vt. to experience,Buying a car? We may have to take on another heavy financial burden.,買車？那會使我們再加上一項沉重的財務負擔。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,2. burden n. a heavy load to carry; a difficult duty to bear,買房的年輕人不得不承擔高額的抵押貸款。 I dont like to burden my memory with useless facts.,The young people who bought apartments have to burden themselves with a high mortgage. 我不喜歡費心去記一些無用的事實。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,2. burden vt. to put a burden on sb.,3. overtake v. (of sth. unpleasant) to reach suddenly and unexpectedly,一小時之后，我感到困乏極了。 The climbers were overtaken by bad weather.,Utter weariness overtook me an hour later. 登山者突然遇到了惡劣的天氣。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,3. overtake v. to go beyond by being a greater amount or degree; to come from behind and pass,Before you start to overtake, make sure the road is clear ahead of you. I had to walk very fast to overtake you.,超車前一定要確保前方路段沒有車輛。 為了趕上你，我不得不走得很快。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,4. maintain vt. to continue to have; to keep in existence to support financially,We should try to maintain our cultural diversity. 他們的收入剛好夠用，不多也不少。,我們應該盡量保持我們文化的多元性。 Theyre paid just enough to maintain themselves, no more and no less.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,5. contribute to (doing) sth. to be devoted to doing; to help to;,成龍將1000萬元捐獻給因地震受災的汶川。 He never contributes to the class debates.,Jackie Chen contributed 10 million yuan to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan. 他在班級辯論時從不發表意見。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,6. vary vt. to (cause to) change or be different,教師應該改變授課方式來保持學生的興趣。 Rich or poor, he never varied his habits.,Teachers should keep students interest by varying their lessons. 無論貧窮還是富有，他從未改變過自己的習慣。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,7. weave v. to twist (long objects) together to support financially,Xiaolan wove many beautiful baskets from strips of willow. 作者將這些事件編寫成了動人的故事。,小蘭用柳條編出了許多漂亮的籃子。 The author wove the incidents together into a moving story.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,8. scrape by/through to live, keep a business, etc., with no more than the necessary money,They just managed to scrape by on Jacks tinny salary. We shall scrape through anyhow.,他們僅靠杰克微薄的工資勉強維持生活。 不管怎樣，我們將渡過困難。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,9. currency n. the money in use in a certain country the state of being commonly accepted,美元是世界上最堅挺的貨幣之一。 These new ideas have gained wide currency.,The US dollar is one of the strongest currencies in the world. 這些新觀念已廣泛傳播。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,10. trim vt. to understand and enjoy sth.; to value highly; to understand sth. with sympathy,By trimming costs and improving service, Holiday Inn has now started to make a profit again.,通過降低成本和提高服務質量，假日酒店又開始 盈利了。,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,10. trim vt. to make sth. smaller, better, etc., by cutting parts from it,他仔細修剪花園的玫瑰。 Summer is com