1. Unit3 Amazing people

2. Writing a biographical article
Task
Writing a biographical article

3. Skills building 1: Listening for figures
Answer some simple questions:
1. How old are you ?
2.Which floor are you on at school?
3. What is the date today?
4. How old is your father?

4. 1. Kinds of figures Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers
Plural form of numbers

5. (1) Cardinal and Ordinal numbers
Cardinal numbers
Ordinal numbers
one
two
three
four
fourteen
forty
seventeen
seventy
first (1st)
second (2nd)
third (3rd)
fourth (4th)
fourteenth (14th)
fortieth (40th)
seventeenth (17th)
seventieth (70th)

6. (2) Plural form of figures
in the twenties
in the thirties
in the forties
in the fifties
in the sixties
in the seventies
in the 20s (20’s)
in the 30s (30’s)
in the 40s (40’s)
in the 50s (50’s)
in the 60s (60’s)
in the 70s (70’s)

7. Can you read out these numbers?
1. 25,000
2. 108,000
3. 32,000
4. 10,200,200
5. 十四点三十分
6.五十周年
7. 五百万四千
8.八十万六百

8. Game-playing
Ask one student to say a number and another one to translate it into Chinese. Do it in chain.

9. 2. Figures can refer to age Susan will be 16 next month.
date Tom was born on 17th December 1988.
percentage Anna scored 90 percent in her English test.
price Susan bought a T-shirt for $ 20.
street number Ye Ping lives at 198 Jiangsu Road
time Ivy is playing tennis at six o’clock this evening
telephone number Please call at
fax number My fax is 999,567,534.

10. 3. Modifier of numbers
We can use certain words and phrases to express an approximate number or to modify a number.
about , around, more than, under, at least

11. P52 Listening Steve Fossett became interested in balloons in his
late(1) _________________.He has been a balloonist
for(2) ____________years. He was (3) ____________
Years old when he flew around the world. He finally achieved success when he tried for the
(4)____________ time. He swam across the English
Channel in (5)_____________. He has broken (6)
________________ world records.
30s 10 58
6th
1985 14

12. Step 1 Finding a speaker for your school
Part A: Requirements for speaker:
Must be older than _______but younger than ______
Must live in or near __________.
Available between the ________of May and the _______of June.
Able to speak from _______o’clock until _______o’clock.
Prepare a speech of _______hours, with _______hour for questions and answers. 18 35
Fanshui
30th
2nd 10 13
two
one

13. 6. Must have achieved something _________ or ___________.
7. Must be able to speak ________ or ________.
8. Nationality: ___________ preferred.
9. Experience as speaker would be __________.
10. __________and outgoing personality.
exciting
important
English
Putonghua
Chinese
helpful
friendly

14. Wanted ! Part B Exciting Speaker (2) ___________________is looking
for an exciting person to give a talk
at our school in May or (3)________.
Have you achieved You must be (4) ________ to 35years of
something exciting age and live in or near ___________.
or (1)_____________?
The speaker we choose will
Do you want to ．speak(6)_______and(7)__________
inspire students with ．have a friendly and(8) ___________
your experiences? Personality.
Fanshui Middle School
June 18
Baoying
important
English
Putonghua
outgoing

15. Skills building 2: reading a CV
A CV includes:
Identification : name, address, contact information
(phone number and address)
Objective : what kind of job you want to get
Education: the names of the schools at which you
studied and graduation dates
Experience: your past jobs, company names, location
and position held for past jobs
References: names of the persons who once worked or
studied with you and their contact information
Other: honors you have got, hobbies and interests

16. P54 The CV excerpts (answers)
Beijing University
No.1 High School
Wang Bing * 123 Nanjing Road
* * gets job.com
Referees: English teacher
Ms Lu Xia
Football coach
Mr Zhang Xi

17. Step 2 Introducing a speaker
1 Name: _____________ 2 Home:______________________
______________________
3.Male/Female: ________ 4. Age:_____________________
5. Language spoken: ________________________________
6. Experience: _____________________________________
_________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Gao Jian
9407 ZhongShan Nan Road
* Flat D* Nanjing* China
Female 29
Putonghua(native); English(fluent)
a Goodwill Ambassador for China
Travelled around the world giving speeches
and introducing Chinese culture
2002 Started a school to help students get accepted
to study abroad programmes
Worked as an English teacher in a college

18. ___________________________________________
7.Achievement(s):_____________________________
8. Interests:__________________________________
9. Personality:________________________________
Lived in Australia
BA in English; Goodwill Ambassador
for China; start a school; a college teacher for many years
Travel and adventure
Friendly and outgoing

19. Skills building 3: organizing information
3 important sections
Introduction: Who we are going to write about and why we are writing about him/her
Body: Details about the person
( what he/she did; what he/she said, his/her opinions, the facts, the statistics, etc.)
3. Conclusion: The important result of his/her deed and what people think about him/her)

20. P56 Part A Introduction: __________________________
Body: ________________________________
Conclusion: ___________________________
9, 10
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
11, 12

21. P57 Part B E ----C----B----A------D------F
Paragraph E tells us who the passage is about
Paragraphs C,B,A and D tell us some detailed information about the person in the order of the events that happened
Paragraph F is the conclusion of the whole passage.

22. Step 3 Writing a biographical article
1. Introduction:
who the article is about
why a speaker has been invited to the school
when she will speak
why she is interesting
what kind of personality she has

23. Step 3 Writing a biographical article
2. Body :
where she was born
where she has lived
where she lives now
where she studied
what job(s) she has had
what interesting things she has done
what her hobbies/ interests are

24. Step 3 Writing a biographical article
3. Conclusion:
why your schoolmates should be excited to listen to her
what can be learned from listening to her talk

25. A sample
We are going to invite Ms Gao jian to our school to give a speech at the end of this month. She once lived in Australia and has travelled around the world. She is friendly and outgoing. She knows China and Chinese culture quite well, and she also knows about the world.
She was born in Yangzhou. In 1981she went to Australia and lived there until The she came back to China and studied In Nanjing No.5 High school. She is good at both Chinese and English. She studied English Language and Literature in Beijing University from 1994 to After

26. graduation, as a Good will Ambassador for China, she travelled around the world giving speeches and introducing Chinese culture. She likes travel and adventure. In 2002, she started a school to help poor students get accepted to study-abroad progammes.
She will talk about studying in foreign countries, as many students are thinking about this. We are looking forward to her coming.

27. Homework
Write a biographical article

28. Thanks!Bye!