Lesson 1 Life-long Learning

Teaching aims:

To develop and practice the strategies for prediction, working out meanings and making inference.

To practice using Third Conditional Sentences.

Teaching difficulties:

To practice using Third Conditional Sentences

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T:Since childhood we began to learn writing and drawing. Now we work even harder for entering university, is it true? I know you all work hard, sometimes you feel tired. Once you graduate from university and get a job, do you think it necessary to continue learning something new?

T: Look at pictures about middle-aged people having class. Ask students “ what do you think of them” “why do they learn? “Is it true that as long as you live you must learn?” Many adults are sadly too busy to develop learning skills once they start work and have family to support.

You are young and naturally more open to learning.

T: Now let’s read an article “Life-Long Learning. You will learn some new thoughts and ideas about life-long learning. It is valuable for your growth.

ⅡReading

1 Read the text silently and find the answers to the questions

1.) When did he find time to study ?

2) What did he think of his four years hard work ?

3) When did she lay off ? 4) How did she feel about it ?

5 ) Why did she lay off ? 6 ) Did she do something wrong ?

7) How did Grandpa Chen connect his daughter in the US in the past ?

8) What do you think of them ?

2.find the information to fill in the table . Do the exercise 3, then check the answers as a class .

3. Do the exercise true or false

1.) Sun Wen can’t graduate from Qinghua University .

2.) Ms Tang didn’t lay off 3 years ago.

3.) Ms Tang didn’t get bored or decided to do a business course .

4.) Grandpa Chen is teaching himself new tricks every day .

5.) Grandpa Chen isn’t doing an English course on the Internet .

Answers: 1. F 2.F 3. F 4. T 5.F

T: draw a conclusion:

1.The world is developing so fast that you must learn all the time, even if you graduated from university otherwise you fall behind others. If you don’t learn you can’t understand the knowledge in your working field, you will lose your job.

2. All jobs ask you to invest time in continuous learning.

3. Life-long learning can keep yourself up-to- date with the changing world.

4. New challenges , competitive job market and technology revolution ask you as life-long learner.

Ⅲ Language skills

1.Language points and some useful expressions

1.) be about to I was just about to ask you the same thing.

2.) a second 3. )worth doing 4.) prove to be 5.) get +pp 6.) go up 7.) in person8.) All you can do is switch off your brain .

9.)switch off 不考慮;覺(jué)得乏味10.) All you can do is switch off your head .

2 . Do exercises 6 .

3. Do exercises8 . Which of the conditional sentences is correct in each context?

Ⅳ Analysis and understand

Do exercises 4 In pairs, discuss ways that you can take part in lifelong learning after you finish school or university

Example: A: Learning another language is a good way to keep on learning after finishing school.

Ⅴ Homework 1. Do exercise4 2. Do exercise9

3. Read the article: The Education System in the UK（page 46）

Learning：A Lifelong Career

1.As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. 2.Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age. 3.learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave. 4.to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.