Shahe Middle School

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Unit 15 Learning Lesson 1 Life-long
Learning
Shahe Middle School Zhou Bingbing
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s Degree.
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Nowadays, more and more people of various
ages and backgrounds are continuing to study to
improve themselves.
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Because they realize
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The Importantance of Life-long Learning
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Skimming Scanning
1.How many people are talked about in the
text? 2. What are their names?
3. How old are they?
Sun Wen
Grandpa Chen
Ms Tang
75
28
45
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Fast reading
This text is a ____. A. narration(???) B.
description(??/???) C. argumentation(???)
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The text is mainly about
1st Reading

• Young men should study hard to improve
  themselves.
• B. We should learn from each other and help each
  other.
• C. Three people s learning experience told us
  the importance of life-long learning.
• D. How did the three people achieve their success?

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2nd Reading
Careful reading
Read the text carefully to find some detailed
information and fill in the table with your group
members.
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What did he study?

How did he study?
Result of his study
Name
Sun Wen
computer engineering
give himself a second chance to study for a degree
Reason for study

• by distance learning

be about to graduate with a Bachelors Degree and
getting promoted at work
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What did she study?


Result of her study
Name
Ms Tang
business course
be laid off and got bored at home

Reason for study

• did a business course

How did she study?
learned new skills prepared a business plan for
setting up a company
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---What has happened to the guy? ---He

has been
laid off
He now.
has no job
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Grandpa Chen
What did he study?


Result of his study
Grandpa Chen
Name
how to email and use the Internet
airmail postage went up send email to his
daughter
Reason for study
by asking grandson to instruct him
How did he study?
can send email see and talk to his
grandchildren in the US on i-Cam
i-Cam
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• A What do you do?
• B My job is to instruct the students in
  English.

v.
instruction (n.)
teach show tell guide
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Summary of the text

• Nowadays, more and more people of various
  ages and ____________are
• continuing their________ to improve
  themselves. Here are their __________ about
  life-long learning.
• Sun Wen He ______in the college entrance
  examination. But now he is about to ________ from
  the school of Continuing Education with a
  Bachelor's Degree by ________ learning. He
  studies in the evenings and weekends while
  keeping a ________full-time job.

backgrounds
study
experience
failed
graduate
distance
secure
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laid off

• Ms Tang was ________by her manager, since
  then she became a full-time housewife. But soon
  she got ________and made up her mind to do a
  ________ course. She nearly finished her courses,
  and prepared a business plan for __________her
  own export company.
• Gandpa Chen used to send letters by
  airmail to her daughter In the US, but the
  postage ________ a few months ago, so she asked
  her grandson to ________him how to use internet
  to send emails to her daughter.

bored
business
setting up
went up
instruct
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Learning helps them

• Sun Wen
• 28

got a degree got promoted
learned new skills planed to set up a company
the importance of life-long learning
Ma Tang 45
learned how to email learned how to use the
Internet
Grandpa Chen 75
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Remember

Where there is a will there is a way.
There is no end to learning. ????
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Its never too late/old to learn. ???,????
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Retell one passage
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Homework
1.Suppose you were a reporter, write a report on
one of the people in your school newspaper.
2. Finish Ex.??on P30 in your exercise
books.
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???? ?????? Thanks for Attention! Comments are
welcome!