1. What does he hold on to?
I dream of running across China one day.
So I hope to exercise every day.
Do you think hopes and dreams are the same?

2. I’d love to sail across the Pacific.

3. How many parts can it be divided into?
Four parts

4. What is the main meaning of each part ?
Para1：Some of the findings of a survey about hopes and dreams
Para2： The hopes of teenagers
Para3： The dreams of teenagers
Para4： Similar hopes but different dreams.

5. introduction
teenagers’ hopes
teenagers’ dreams
conclusion

6. Underline the words and guess what they mean
achieve to obey the real situation
provide to join in
take part in to get something
continue to go on ; not to stop
realistic not to give up
hold on to to give; to offer

7. Part 1: How many students took part in the survey?
Thousands of students across China

8. Survey result: the most popular choice is ___
Part 2
Teenagers’ hopes
Reasons A: B: 1. 2.
to start work as soon as possible
to help provide better lives for their parents
to continue studying and to go to university
to get good education and do jobs they enjoy
Survey result: the most popular choice is ___
computer programming

9. Part 3 Realistic dreams Less realistic/impossible dreams 1:
to be volunteers at the 2008 Olympics
to become famous
to go to the moon one day
to go on exciting trips
to be able to fly
How do they achieve their dreams?
work hard to achieve their dreams

10. a: It seems that teenagers have _____ hopes but ______ dreams.
Part 4: conclusion
a: It seems that teenagers have _____ hopes but ______ dreams.
b: What is the writer’s advice?
________________________
similar
different
Hold on to your dreams and one day they may come true

11. A: What would you love to do when you grow up?
B: I’d like to have my own company one day.
A: Why?
B: Because I want to make more money to help those in trouble.
A: How are you going to do that?
B: I hope to achieve it by working hard at school to learn as much as I can and by having a winner’s attitude: I can do this

12. A:What would you love to do
when you grow up?
B: I’d like to ___________.
A: Why?
B: Because I want to ________.
A: How are you going to do that?
B: I hope to_______________.

13. Life is a broken-winged bird
　Dream
Hold on to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That can never fly
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen only with snow

14. My best wishes:
hold on to your dreams;
and one day they may come true

15. Homework
1.Copy the sentences using the sentence structures of the reading ,and recite them.
2.Finish the exercises on your paper.
3.Write an article about your dream.