1. Unit 1 Star signs

3. Twelve animals in Chinese horoscope What else?

5. How old are you? What year were you born in? What is your animal sign? What characteristics do you think it has? I’m the pig./I’m in the year of the pig. I think it is…

6. What month were you born in?

7. Do you know the star signs?

8. Aries /’ Ɛǝ ri:z / 白羊座 21st Mar –20th Apr

9. Taurus /’t ɔ :r ǝ s / 金牛座 21st Apr – 21st May

10. Gemini /’ ʤ eminai / 双子座 22nd May – 21st Jun

11. Cancer /’kæns ǝ / 巨蟹座 22nd Jun – 22nd Jul

12. Leo /’li: ǝ u / 狮子座 23rd Jul – 22nd Aug

13. Virgo /’v ǝ :g ǝ u / 处女座 23rd Aug – 22nd Sept

14. Libra /’li:br ǝ / 天秤座 23rd Sept – 22nd Oct

15. Scorpio /’sk ɔ :pi ǝ u/ 天蝎座 23rd Oct – 21st Nov

16. Sagittarius / sæ ʤ i’t Ɛǝ ri ǝ s/ 射手座 22nd Nov – 20th Dec

17. Capricorn /’kæprik ɔ :n/ 摩羯座 21st Dec – 20th Jan

18. Aquarius / ǝ ’kw Ɛǝ ri ǝ s/ 水瓶座 21st Jan – 19th Feb

19. Pisces /’paisi:z/ 双 鱼 座 20th Feb – 20th Mar

20. Aries 白羊座 / 牧羊座 21st Mar.-20th Apr. 21st Jan.-19th Feb. Aquarius 水瓶座 / 宝瓶座 20th Feb. -20th Mar. Pisces 双鱼座 21st Apr. - 21st May. Taurus 金牛座 /’ t ɔ :r ǝ s / /’ Ɛǝ ri:z / /’paisi:z/ / ǝ ’kw Ɛǝ ri ǝ s/

21. Virgo 处女座 23rd Aug.-22nd Sept. 22nd Jun. -22nd Jul. Cancer 巨蟹座 22nd May.-21st Jun. Gemini 双子座 23rd Jul. -22nd Aug. Leo 狮子座 /’ li: ǝ u / /’ kæns ǝ / /’ ʤ eminai / /’ v ǝ :g ǝ u /

22. Libra 天秤座 Capricorn 摩羯座 / 山羊座 Scorpio 天蝎座 23rd Sept.-22nd Oct. 21st. Dec.---20th Jan. 23rd Oct.-21st Nov. 22nd Nov. -20th Dec. Sagittarius 射手座 / 人马座 /sæ ʤ i’t Ɛǝ ri ǝ s/ /’ sk ɔ :pi ǝ u/ /’ kæprik ɔ :n/ /’ li:br ǝ /

23. A: How old are you? B: I’m sixteen. A: What is your animal sign? B: The pig./ I am in the year of the Pig. A: When is your birthday? B: It’s on 10th February. A: Oh, you are an Aquarius!

25. Questions: 1.Who brings Eddie the newspaper? 2.What does Hobo ask Eddie to read? Why? 3. What do Eddie’s stars say? 4.What happens to Eddie’s breakfast at the end of the story? Hobo. Hobo asks Eddie to read his stars because it is very interesting. Hobo eats it. It says Eddie will have lots to eat and drink today.

27. Eddie and Hobo One morning, Eddie was having his ________when he asked Hobo to bring him the_________. Hobo told Eddie to read his stars in the newspaper because it was very __________. Eddie got a piece of good news from the newspaper. It was he could have ____to eat and drink. But Hobo brought him a piece of ____ news. It was his breakfast had been eaten by______. breakfast newspaper interesting lots Hobo bad Their star signs?

28. Well,you should give me more pocket money (be careful…) then! ^-^ Can you make a new dialogue? Look!My star sign looks like a lion ! (crab,ram,bull…)It says I’ll get lots of money today! ^-^ (be bad luck …)