Warm-up. Objectives Read magazine and newspaper articles, and adverts. Practise shopping,...

Warm-up

Objectives

Read magazine and newspaper a

rticles, and adverts. Practise shopping, bargaining, c

omplaining and selling. Listen to a radio programme, sh

opping dialogues and a song.

Write an advert. Learn about quantity words and

expressions as well as infinitives.

Draw your attention to the unit objectives at the top of the page. Which of the activities do most often in Chinese and which least often. Do your have any problems with any of these activities in Chinese?

1. Look at the list below, what is

important to you? Tell the class.

to have lots of money/ a good job/ a

big car

to be healthy/ with my family/ with

my friends

to help other people/ to do well in

exams

Look at the title of the unit and think

of any sayings in Chinese that refer to

money. Then tell you some English

sayings.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Money makes the world go round.

Look after the pennies and the pounds

will take care of themselves.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Some more English sayings about money:

All the splendor in the world is not wort

h a good friend. (Voltaire, French think

er) 人世间所有的荣华富 贵不如一个好朋友。 ( 法国思想家 伏尔泰 )

Creditors have bette

r memories than deb

tors. (Benjamin Fran

klin, American presi

dent) 放债的比借债的记忆好。 ( 美国总统 富兰克林 . B.)

If you would know the value of money,

go and try to borrow some. (B

enjamin Franklin , American presiden

t ) 要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。 (

美国总统 富兰克林 . B.)

If your Riches are yours, why don’t

you take them with you to the other

world? (Benjamin Franklin, Americ

an president ) 如果财富是你的，那么你为什么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢？ ( 美国总统 富兰克林 . B.)

Money is a good servant and a bad mas

ter. (Francis Bacon, British philosophe

r ) 金钱是善仆 ,

也是恶主。 ( 英国哲学家 培根 . F.)

Money is like muck, not good except it

be spread. (Francis Bacon, British phi

losopher) 金钱好比粪肥 , 只有撒到在大地才是有用之物。 ( 英国哲学家 培根 . F.)

Sometimes one pays most for the things

one gets for nothing. (Albert Einstein, A

merican scientist ) 有时候一个人为不花钱得 到的东西付出的代价最高。 ( 美国科学家 爱因斯坦 . A.)

Example: The most important thing

to me is to be healthy. …

Students discuss whether they think

these sayings are true.

Introduce some

kinds of money

2. Listen Which of the people in

the photos (A-D) are speaking?

Tape script

1. Mm, well, I’ve got a good job. I work

very hard and I earn a good salary.

I’ll be honest. I like spending money,

especially on clothes. Why not? I’ve

earned it, haven’t I? B

2. Well, people think too much about money---they think money brings you happiness. But you don’t need money that much … I think the most important thing is to try to help other people. I mean people who really need help. I am in two charities. We collect money for children in poor countries … C

3. I’ve been out of work for five years

now. It’s very difficult to get a job

at my age, you know. And I’ve had

a lot of personal problems. I don’t

like begging, but I have to. I think a

lot of people don’t know how easy it

is to get into my situation. A

4. Personally, I think it’s important

to give money to charity, especially

to charities for children. I mean

most of us have some extra money,

don’t we? I’m not very rich, but I

try to give as much money as I can.

D

3. Complete the sentences with the

verbs in the box in the correct form.

Key Words

borrow, collect, earn, lend, lose,

make, need, save, spend

Ask students to read the Key Words

and find three pairs of ‘near opposites’

(borrow/lend, save/spend, lose/win).

Remind students of the work they did

on word stress in the previous unit and

ask them where the stress comes in

borrow and collect.

Example

He lost his wallet yesterday when he

was in a crowded bus.

1. If you ____ money, you can ask a

friend to ____ you some or

_______ money from a band.

need

lend

borrow

2. His company ______ a lot of money

and so he _____ a good salary.

3. She is careful with money, she does

not ______ very much. She ___

__ ￡ 40 a week.

4. At the moment she __________ mo

ney for charity.

makes

earns

spend saves

is collecting

Debating and

writing

Look back at the list in Exercise 1 and divide the values into ‘material’ (e.g. having a big car) and ‘non-material’ values, e.g. (having friends). Write these in two columns and elicit more suggestions of material and non-material values to add to the columns.

Step 1

In groups, choose three material valu

es and three nonmaterial values that

are important for everybody. Then ex

change ideas, justifying your decision

s. Then write an article to narrate( 叙述 ) your own choice and the reason

why you do so.

Step 2

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