1. What Is the Meaning of Life?
冀教版　九年级
Lesson 7
What Is the Meaning of Life?

2. Ms. Peng succeeds in singing.
She is a successful singer.
She is good to children.

3. Yao Ming succeeds in playing basketball.
He is a successful basketball player.
He is deep in thought.

4. Mo Yan succeeds in writing.
He is a successful writer.
He is writing his name down.

5. They succeed in developing the relationship between China and the US.
They are successful leaders.
They will start a dialogue.

6. What is the relationship of them?
They are neighbours.

7. Let’s survey it. What is the meaning of neighbours ?
Strangers Close friends

8. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
Chen Guangbiao __________making money. He is a _________ businessman. He _________people in trouble. My_________
went to college with his help last year. For this, I’m______________. What will I do if I’m rich in the future?
success neighbour
deep in thought be good to succeed in
succeeds in
successful
is good to
neighbour
 deep in thought

9. Think About It!
What does success
mean to you?

10. Listen to the passage and tick the sentences mentioned.
Become famous.
Have a happy family.
Attend a good university.
Make other people happy.
Have a satisfying job.
Be rich.

11. Listen and Repeat!

12. Read the lesson and answer the questions. 1
Read the lesson and answer the questions. 1.What is Li Ming thinking about?
2.What does Wang Mei think we should do? 3.What does Li Ming’s father always say?

13. 1.What is Li Ming thinking about?
He is thinking about what the meaning of life is.
Wang Mei: Hi Li Ming. What are you thinking about?
Li Ming: oh, hi Wang Mei. I was just thinking… What’s the meaning of life? Do you ever wonder about that?

14. 2.What does Wang Mei think we should do?
She thinks we should try our best to live a good and happy life.
Wang Mei: These are really important questions and very difficult to answer. I’m not sure how to answer them, but I think we should try our best to live a good and happy life.

15. 3.What does Li Ming’s father always say?
He always says that we should be good to others.
Li Ming: That sounds right to me. My dad always says that we should be good to others.

16. Read the lesson again and fill in the blanks.
After the history class, Li Ming is deep in thought. Wang Mei comes in, and they start
a ________. Li Ming wonders about the ________ of life. He has many questions about his purpose in life. Wang Mei thinks those questions are________ to answer. They decide to ________ their questions ________, and then ________ their parents, friends and neighbours about their thoughts.
dialogue
meaning
difficult
write
down
survey

17. SURVEY: What do you need to be happy? I need health to be happy.
Reasons: We will live a good and happy
life if we are healthy.
I need ________to be happy.
Reasons:___________________________
__________________.

18. Writing: Write a short passage about your survey.
It’s said that happy people can live longer.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

19. Homework: *Finish off the exercises in the lesson.
*Copy your passage on the
exercise book.

20. Thank you!
See you!