Lesson 1 Life-long Learning Teaching aims:To develop and practice the strategies for prediction, working out meanings andmaking inference.To review First and S0econd conditional sentences.To practice using Third Conditional Sentences.Teaching difficulties:To practice using Third Conditional Sentences.Teaching Aids: computerTeaching procedures:Ⅰ. Warming upT: (first show a slide about some children attending class.) How happily they aresince childhood we began to learn writing and drawing. Now we work even harder forentering university, is it true?S:[来源:ZXXK]T: I know you all work hard, sometimes you feel tired. Once you graduate fromuniversity and get a job do you think it necessary to continue learning somethingnew? S: T: show some pictures about middle-aged people having class and old lady learningcomputer. Ask students “ what do you think of them” “why do they learn? “Is it truethat as long as you live you must learn?”S:T: Now let’s read an article “Life-Long Learning. You will learn some new thoughtsand ideas about life-long learning. It is valuable for your growth.ⅡReading Reading silently do the exercise true or false1.All jobs ask you to invest time in continuous learning.2.The school is the only place to gain life-long learning.第 1 页


ⅢAnalysis and understandT: The article is made up of paragraphs and each paragraph shows certain meaning.Now let’s analysis what is the meaning of each paragraph?Para1 How to learn more effectivePara2 The good learning place –schoolPara3 The social situationPara4 Why is life-long learning importantPara5 Study habits and attitudes[来源:学。科。网][来源:ZXXK]T: I think you have learned why we need life-long learning, so do you know how tolearn effectively? effective life-long learning:collect formal qualificationsform habitsdevelop attitudesT: analysis habits importance. And ask students to translate the saying into Chinese.Habit is second nature.习惯成自然。Sum up:Habit is very important for a person, it can make you successful but also destroy your第 2 页
3.Good habits and the right attitudes can make you learn effectively.4. Life-long learning can keep yourself up-to- date with the changing world.5. New challenges , competitive job market and technology revolution ask you aslife-long learner.Answers: 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5.TFirst listen to the cassette then read the text again and answer the following questions,do the exercise 3T: draw a conclusion: The word 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’tlearn you can’t understand the knowledge in your working field, you will lose yourjob.


career.T: What does habit refer to?Habits:time managementnote takinganalysis and writingT: Is that enough?right attitude → open-minded ：Challenging the ideas you already hold needsopen-minded.T: Except habits and right attitudes, school also helps you successfulSchool: Is the ideal place to gain life-long learning skills because you have supportand resources.T: Ok I think you have understood the text well, so we learn language skills Ⅳ Language skillsCorrect mistakes1. Changing jobs have also become common practice for many people.2. They aim to rich their work experiences, develop new skills and meet newchallenges.3. Habits help you study include time management, note taking, analysis andwriting.4. Effective life-long learning is matter of collecting formal qualifications.5. Open-minded is important because learning something new often meanschallenging the ideas.6. Many adults are sad too busy to develop skills once they start work learning.Answers: 1. have 改为 has 2. rich 改为enrich 3. habit后加 that 4. matter 前加 a 5. open 前加being 6. sad改为 sadly Language points1.from time to time 有时,偶尔,时不时地 From time to time he turned his head and talked with me.他偶尔转过身来和我说话。第 3 页


They come to see me from time to time.他们有时来看我。2. keep up with 跟上I had to run to keep up with the children.我得跑步跟上孩子们。We must keep learning to keep up with the changing.我们必须不断地学习以跟上变化的形势。[来源:学&科&网]3. be scared of doing sth be scared to do sth be scared that害怕/不敢做某事She is scared of going out alone.她不敢一个人外出。People are scared to use the buses late at night.人们害怕在深夜乘公共汽车。[来源:]I’m scared that I’m going to fall.我担心自己快掉下去了。T: English has a character that a word has several meanings so let’s do the exercise Translate these sentences into Chinese, paying attention to the bold words.1.a) That’s not a problem. It’s simply a matter of letting people know in time. 这没问题，只不过是及时通知大家的问题。 b) The book mainly talks about energy of matter. 这本书主要谈论的是物质的能量。c) I suppose you will be leaving soon then? No , as a matter of fact, I’ll bestaying for another two years. 我想，你快要离开了吧。 不，事实上，我还要再待两年呢。d) It doesn’t matter to me what you do. 你做什么我无所谓。动词，事关紧要；要紧2. a) Learning something new often means challenging the ideas you already hold.学习新东西常常意味着挑战你固有的想法。持有，怀有（观念）第 4 页


b) Employees hold 30%of the shares雇员持有30％的股份。c) The girl held her father’s hand tightly.女孩紧紧拉着父亲的手。d) He was holding the baby in his arms.他抱着婴儿。e) I don’t think that branch will hold your weight.我觉得那根树枝撑不住你的重量。f) The plane holds about 300 passengers.这架飞机能容纳300名乘客。g) There wasn’t much in the museum to hold my attention.博物馆中没有很多让我感兴趣的东西。使（注意力或兴趣）持续不减，吸引住h) The meeting will be hold in the community enter.会议将在社区活动中心举行。I) He holds strange views on education.他对教育的看法不同。持有，怀有 （信念）意见3. a) She’s determined to put her new ideas into practice.她决心要把自己的新想法付诸实践。实践，实际行动b) Changing jobs has also become common practice for many people.调换工作对许多人来说已成为家常便饭。通常的做法，习惯，惯例c) It takes a lot of practice to play the violin well.拉好小提琴需要多加练习。d) It is his practice to read several books a week.他习惯于每周读几本书。习惯，习俗VocabularyDo the exercise 4ⅤGrammar Do the exercise 6, 7, 8and9第 5 页


ⅥHomeworkRead the article : The Education System in the UK（page 46）Tomorrow we talk about the topic and see who is the best?第 6 页