Unit 8 Is_life_fair

Read the passage fast and think about the question:

What is the central idea of the passage?

We can’t expect life to be perfect .Life is what we make it .

Scan the text and tell each of the following statements is true or false according to the information from the text.1.Everyone thinks that life is fair for him/her.2.Life is full of challenges. 3.Patrick gave up his study for many years ,but later he continued to finish school. 4.It was difficult for Patrick to study.

5.Parick couldn’t walk after an accident.

Read the passage carefully and try to find some phrases or sentences which are difficult .

We can’t expect life to be perfect.Life is what we 我们不能期待生活是完美的，生活使我们 make it.

自己创造的。 Now he is very active in teaching English and 现在他积极从事英语教学 , helping children who are out of school 并且帮助那些缀学的孩子. He knew that a good education was his only way to 他知道良好的教育是他唯一可以 success and independence. 通向成功和独立的途径A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

一个人可能会失败很多次,但是直到他开

remind sb of sthagree with go on to do feel sorry for sb not…until… be active in…

使某人想起某事物同意某人的意见 接下来继续做 为某人感到遗憾,难过 直到……才…… 积极从事某事Practice

eg:The picture reminds me of my school days. (这张照片使我想起我的学生时代)我想提醒您一下明天的会议 I want to remind you of the tomor row's meeting.

eg:We agree with our teacher.(我们同意我们老师的意见)

我同意你的答案I agree with your answer.

eg:But he never gave up and went on to finish school.(但是他从不放弃，而继续完成了学 业) 昨天 他写完信后，就接着读课文

After he finished the letter, he went on to read the text yesterday。

eg: We sometimes feel sorry for ourselves. (我们有时为自己感到遗憾) 我为你感到遗憾 I feel sorry for you.

e.g. He didn’t go to bed until 10 o,clock yesterday. 昨天他直到10点才睡觉。 I won’t come back until evening tomorrow. 明天我直到傍晚才会回来

介词

doing eg:Now he is active in teaching English. (现在他积极从事英语教学)

他积极帮助他的同学 He is active in helping his classmates.

Summary

Complete the following sentences by putting the Chinese in the brackets into English. agree with (赞同)my idea that 1、Do you _____ we should speak English every day? is full of (充满了)love and 2、My family _____ warmth. 3、We have to overcome _____(克服)many difficulties to study English well.

give up (放弃)learning 4、I will never ____ go on (继续)to study it English. I shall ___ hard. is active in 5、Our teacher________ (积极从事) English teaching. didn’t until 6、

she _____ go to bed ______ (直到……才)her daughter came back. 7、The old picture _____ reminds me___ of (让某人想起……)those good days.