参考资料
CONTENTS
| Theme | Listening | Speaking | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p. 1 | UNIT 1 FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS | Festival activities Listen for relationships A recent festival experience | Expressing feelings and emotions | Why Do We Celebrate Festivals? Identify the main idea of a paragraph My Amazing Naadam Experience The Chinese Spring Festival |
| p. 13 | UNIT 2 MORALS AND VIRTUES | A moral dilemma Listen for attitudes Chain of love | Telling a story | Mother of Ten Thousand Babies Draw conclusions The Stone in the Road The Taxi Ride I’ll Never Forget |
| p. 25 | UNIT 3 DIVERSE CULTURES | The origins of American food Take notes Ethnic minority cultures in China | Showing you are listening | A Travel Journal About San Francisco Classify and organise information Welcome to Chinatown! Symbols of American Culture |
| p. 37 | UNIT 4 SPACE EXPLPRATION | How to become an astronaut Listen for numbers Life in space | Expressing curiosity | Space: The Final Frontier Summarise the main idea Is Exploring Space a Waste of Time and Money? Homes on Mars? |
| p. 49 | UNIT 5 THE VALUE OF MONEY | An honest cleaner Make inferences At the restaurant | Retelling a story | The Million Pound Bank Note, Act 1, Scene 3 Understand implied meaning The Million Pound Bank Note, Act 2, Scene 1 The Million Pound Bank Note, Act 2, Scene 3 |
| Writing | Pronunciation | Structure | *Project | *Video Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A narrative essay about a festival or celebration experience | Assimilation | The -ing form (1) as the attribute and the predicative | Give a presentation about a festival in China Make a poster about festival food recipes | The Lantern Festival |
| A review of a moral fable | The rising intonation | The -ing form (2) as the object complement and the adverbial | Make a poster to motivate others to practise virtues | Confucius and Ren |
| An introduction to your city or town | Pauses | Ellipsis | Create a travel brochure | World’s Biggest Melting Pot |
| An argumentative essay about space exploration | Stress and rhythm | Infinitives (1) as the attribute and the adverbial | Give a presentation on China’s space exploration | Exploring Mars |
| A play script of a scene from The Million Pound Bank Note | Rhythm and intonation | Review of modal verbs The past future tense | Give a performance of a scene from The Million Pound Bank Note | At the Hotel |