1、Lesson 3 Your Life Is What You Make It(2)Unit 1 Life Choices1What do you think of the two pictures?poor,old,rural,simple,dusty,muddy,tough,challenging,small,unstable power and water2Read and answer the questions.1.What did Zhang Tians parents want him to do?What did his friends do?2.Where did he wor
2、k as a volunteer teacher?Why did he choose to go there?3.What did he decide to do after a year?3Answer the following questions.1.What did Zhang Tians parents want him to do?What did his friends do?They hoped he would go to a big city to find a teaching job.His friends all left his hometown for work
3、in Shanghai or Beijing.4Answer the following questions.2.Where did he work as a volunteer teacher?Why did he choose to go there?He went to a village in Guizhou Province.He wanted to start a new lifestyle and go to teach where he was needed the most.5Answer the following questions.3.What did he decid
4、e to do after a year?(Line 56:he now feels ready to stay for another year.)He decided to stay in the village for another year.6Read again and complete the flow chart.Reasons to Be a Volunteer TeacherSituation When He ArrivedChanges He Made School:Living conditions:School subjectsSchool activitiesStu
5、dents learningVillagers lifePara 2Para 3Para 4Para 57Read again and complete the flow chart.Reasons to Be a Volunteer TeacherSituation When He ArrivedChanges He MadeSchool:Living conditions:School subjects:School activities:Students learning:Villagers life:introduced more subjects;would organise the
6、 first school concert;He wanted to start a new lifestyle.He was inspired by the idea of going to teach where he was needed the most.much smaller;dusty and muddy playgroundunstable power and water supplies;one shower every three or four days;dishes cooked by himselflearnt English;became more confiden
7、t in learning;rebuilt the playground;set up a library;helped sell local products online8How did Zhang Tian feel at different stages?9How did the writer describe Zhang Tians feelings?satisfiedHe was inspired by the idea eagerdisappointedchallengedinspiredmotivated travelled with an eager heart.The sc
8、hool was much smaller The power and water supplies were unstable Their school lives are now more attractive his students were able to read Use adj.Use contrast10Para 1:Para 2:Para 3:Para 4:Para 5:A typical day in the village schoolThe reason to be a volunteer teacherVillage school and living conditi
9、onChanges of school subjects and activitiesChanges of students and the villageSummary11Discuss the following questions.Why did Zhang Tian choose to stay in the village when he saw the school and living conditions there?Would you go and continue teaching in the village if you were in Zhang Tians situ
10、ation?12Your Life is What You Make It It is our choices that show what we truly are.-J.K.Rowling.How do you understand the title?13 人生可能很精彩，人生可能很无奈，人生更多的是快乐，但有时也会有悲哀。人生可能心怀梦想，人生可能有远大志向，人生可能是一个人 坐在审判席上。人生可能龌龊卑贱，甚至可能痛苦不堪；但人生全靠自己创造，所以要加油把它变得美满。Life is what you make it 兰斯顿休斯(Langston Hughes,(19021967)，美
11、国诗人By Langston HughesLife can be good,Life can be bad,Life is mostly cheerful,But sometimes sad.Life can be dreams,Life can be great thoughts,Life can mean a person,Sitting in court.Life can be dirty,Life can even be painful;But life is what you make it,So try to make it beautiful.But life is what you make it,So try to make it beautiful.14
