Unit Eight Money
Teaching Objectives
1. To understand the relationship between money and happiness/ crime;
2. To learn to form a proper attitude towards money;
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3. Enable the students to learn to make the best u of the money from their parents;
4. Some important new words and phras should be mastered.
Teaching allotment
6 academic hours.
1) 1-2 Preparation
2) 3-4 In-Class Reading: Time Spent Agonizing over Money
3) 5-6 After-Class Reading & Exercis
Focus Points
1. Key words, phras & usages手抄报边框:
action, affect, afford, bankrupt, breed, consume, contribute, depart, evil, factor, financial, founder, fund, govern, industrial, invention, journal, labor, lamb, lest, mirable, patent, purcha, rare, raw, spin, stock, sum, thirst, vacation, wealthy
2. Difficult ntences
1. Within hours of a recent major stock market drop, I telephoned my Ford dealer and ordered the station wagon that I test-drove the day before.
2. A study in The Wall Street Journal found that 70 percent of the public lives from paycheck to paycheck.
3. It is an unusual person who can live free from financial stress, or who can spend money on others as easily as he spends it on himlf.
4. Had the great inventor stored his money, he would have died a wealthy man.
5. Money may not be the root of all evil, but if it keeps us up at night, it has become way too important in our lives.
3. Grammar focus
关于as 男人的照片引导的定语从句（2）; “It ＋be ＋adjective ＋noun＋that．．．”句型; 主语的补语
Methods of Teaching
1) Using multi-media teaching equipment（应用多媒体教学手段）
2) Group-Discussion短小精悍（分组讨论）
3) Debating (辩论――金钱是否是万能的？成都小吃)
I. Related Information:
Cultural Information
Normally we think of money as the coins and paper notes that are ud as a standard medium of exchange or payment within any particular country. Great Britain has the pound, France has the franc, China has the Yuan, and the United States the dollar. But in all technologically advanced societies, there are now many different kinds of money. Wealth is not only measured by the amount of coins and paper notes that we posss but also by various types of asts. Aside from, real estate and other forms of material wealth like paintings or jewelry, some people can also own stocks and bonds. The resources of a company are divided into portions or shares that are issued in the form of transferable certificates called stocks. If a company does well, the profits are divided among stockholders. If a government or a company wants to borrow money, it can issue bonds or certificates of debt that promi to pay back by a certain date the money borrowed plus interest. The risk factor is much higher in stocks. Bonds provide a safer form of investment but they are less profitable. Both stocks and bonds are bought and sold on the stock market.
There have always been moral issues related to money. Some societies regarded lavish
spending as morally wrong, while others considered lending money at a high rate of interest as a social crime. Many stories have been written on the mir’s greed for money. According to bible, “the love of money is the root of all evil.” The famous playwright, George Bernard Shaw state that, in the final analysis, it was not the love but the lack of money that was the root of all evil. While it is true that money caus all kinds of problems, it is equally true that in today’s society it is a necessary evil.
Key Words Related to the Text
1. Bible: The holy book of the Christian, consisting of the Old Testament and New Testament.
2. Bernard Shaw(1856-1950): great Irish–born English dramatist, critic and essayist.
II. Suggested Class Activities:
I. Warming-up Activity: Values on Money
Purpo: Getting to know the real value of money
Form: Group discussion and individual statement
Step 1; work in pairs to discuss respective views on money
Step 2: report the results to the class: you way of getting and spending money
Step 3: concluding remarks given by the teacher making full u of the money you have
Suggested words /expressions
Labor at/spend money as water flows/money makes the world go around
Reminds: try to guide the students to develop a right attitude towards money
II. Activity for further development: Is money the No.1 in your life?
Purpo: Teach them to make good u of money
Form: Group discussion and individual statement
Step 1: Work in groups to discuss what kind of role money plays in your life
Step 2: Reports your ideas to the class the importance of money and try to analyze whether money is the most important thing in the world.
Step 3: The teacher may put forward the opposite view—Is money the root of all evils (P.142.3.(2)).
Suggested words/expressions:
Set a goal/.living style/luxury . What begins as something we want turns into something we need.
III. Further development:
IV. In-Class Reading
Words and phras
1. affect v. have an influence on (sb or sth ); produce an effect on
effect n. result or influence
洋芋糍粑e.g.苹果快速截屏 Alcohol affects drivers’ concentration.
Alcohol has very bad effect on drivers.
2. agonize v. suffer great anxiety or worry intenly (about something);
agonize over/about : If you agonize over/ about sth, you spend time anxiously trying to make a decision about it.
