Unit 1 business and your life Step 1 lead-in discussion of text A 1. Ask the students to give opinions to the following questions 1) Can modern people survive without business? Why? We can’t live without business, for business activities have great influences on our common lives. 2) What kind of business do you find most profitable? Give reasons. Through these discussions about business, with the questions above or other questions about business, Ss may get prepared for the understanding of the main passage.

Step 2 read text A and summarization 1. Prepare for the vocabulary Ask the students to read out the words loudly Explain some of the words and phrases deposit laundry transaction yacht suspend savings account savings bond custom-built car lay off

2. Ask the students to read and understand the passage in limited time, basically according to the time when most students finish reading. The passage mainly consists of 15 paragraphs Business and your Life You depend on Business What is Business? Some activities are no business Business transactions: Producer and consumer Individual wants and community wants We need business

3. Ask the students to give opinions to the following question What are the three kinds of individual wants? Give examples of each kind. 4. Summarization Ask several students to make summarization of the main ideas of each part and the whole passage 1) the first part mainly explains the great affect of business activities on our lives 2) the second part mainly gives us the definitions of business 3) the third tells that some activities do not belong to business activities 4) the last part tells some information about business transactions

Step 3 exercises of text A 1 Comprehension Choose the right answer of the following multiple choices 1) which of the following is the best definition of “business” according to the text? A. business is something that can bring you money B. business refers to something you can buy with money C. business means the work or activities by which goods and services can provided and obtained for money payment

2 Vocabulary Find the right meaning of the underlined part according to the context. 1) one family reported these business activities for a certain day: issued checks to pay automobile insurance and electric bill; bought a rug and chairs; mailed a letter to order some books…. A. print B ask for C post D comment on 2) what line of business is he in? A area B activity C post D interest

Step 4 read text B and make summarization A pound of butter This passage mainly consists of 19 paragraphs 1. Firstly let the Ss read the words loudly vermouth shutter lounge rightful barrel stuff tormentor wicked hog

2.ask the students to read the text quickly, especially pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph. 3 ask Ss to give answers to the following questions 1) Describe briefly the setting of the story 2) Why do you think the owner of the shop asked Seth to stay? 3) What would you do if you were the owner of the shop? 4 make summarization of the whole passage