1. School study

2. People of all ages/different jobs need to learn.
Continuing study//life-long learning

3. It seems that we have entered to a world of life-long learning…?

4. Unit15 lesson1
Life-long Learning

5. Listen and answer the questions.
Did Sun Wen pass the college entrance(高考) exam?
2. What did Ms Tang feel when her manager told her that she would be laid off(下岗)?
3. Where is Grandpa Chen’s daughter and grandson?In the past, how did Grandpa Chen send his letters?
No, he failed.
Her mind went blank, her heart swelled with anger and she wanted to cry.
They are in the US. Grandpa Chen had been sending his letters by airmail.

6. Read the texts again and fill in the table with the correct information.

7. Read the passage and complete the chart: Name Sun Wen Ms Tang
Grandpa Chen
What did they study?
Reason for study
How did they study?
Result of their study
Computer engineering
and internet
Business
Too expensive to send airmail letters
Laid off,bored with being a house-wife,to start her own company
For a degree
With Grandson’s
guidance
Distance learning
Took a business course
Send ,receive,
see and talk; do an English course
Bachelor’s degree,promotion
New skills,
business plan

8. backgrounds study opinions/ways/words failed_ graduate distance secure
Nowadays, more and more people of various ages and __________ are continuing their________ to improve themselves. Here are their _________________________ about life-long learning.
Sun Wen: He ___________in the college entrance examination. But now he is about to ___________ from the school of Continuing Education with a Bachelor's Degree by ________ learning. He studies in the evenings and weekends while keeping a ________full-time job.
Ms Tang was _____________by her manager, since then she became a full-time housewife. But soon she got___________and made up her mind to do a ________ course. She nearly finished her courses, and prepared a business plan for __________________her own export company.
Gandpa Chen used to send letters by airmail to his daughter in the US, but the postage ________ a few months ago, so he asked his grandson to ________him how to use internet to send s to his daughter.
backgrounds
study
opinions/ways/words
failed_
graduate
distance
secure
fired/laid off
bored
business
setting up/starting
went up
instruct

9. Voice your opinion What should we learn in school? How can we learn?
Since long-life learning is important, how
about your learning now?
What should we learn in school?
How can we learn?
Only knowledge
Only remember/copy

10. Learn to do, Learn to learn, Learn to get together. 学会去做 学会去学
Learn to be,
学会做人
Learn to get together.
学会相处

11. Good habit, 
Right attitude
Be patient/Stay calm
Open-minded.

12. Proverbs for Today: There is no end to learning.
Never too old to learn.
There is no royal road to learning
学无止境。
活到老，学到老。
学问无坦途。