基础教程： 第1单元
1.What was your first job? Do you still have the same job? 2.Did you like your first job? Why (not)? 3.What have you learnt from your first job? 4.What do you think are the three most important characteristics that the following people should have? ① engineers ② teachers ③ doctors ④ lawyers ⑤ busine people ⑥ government officials 第2单元
1.What do you know about the Net economy? 2.Have you ever tried Internet shopping? What do you think of it? 3.How is the Net economy going in our country? 4.Talk about the present situation of Net economy in our country. ① How do you like Internet surfing? ② What do you think is the future development of Internet? ③ How does Internet change your life?
第3单元
1、Do you know how much damage human activity is doing to the environment?
2、What kinds of envirommental problems have appeared on our planet in recent years?
3、Have you got some ideas about how to preserve our planet?
4、Talk about the environment problems which occourred on our planet in recent years.
第4单元
1.Is it easy for you to apologize for past wrongs? Why or why not? 2.Why do heads of state feel the need to apologize, and why now? 3.Do world leaders take risks when saying sorry for past wrongs? 4.Do you think the official apology is helpful in promoting a leader’s image?
第5单元
1.What do you think “education” is: inputting information or allowing young minds to explore? 2.What should it be in your opinion? 3.How do you rate your school education on a scale of one to ten? Why? 4.“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” Do you understand this statement? Do you agree with it? 5.Although “education” comes from a Latin word meaning “to draw out,” nowadays it seems to mean “to accept”.What do you think? 6.Join a partner and discu your own primary school experiences.Also share your points about how you should teach your own children when they are still young.
第6单元
1.What is engineering ? What is the content of it ? What aociation could you make between engineering and our life ? Please cite some examples .2.In your opinion , what is the job of an engineer ? Are you an engineer ? what do you do in your work ? 3.Do you know Industrial Revolution ? who are some famous representatives of the Industrial Revolution ? What effect did the revolution have on people’s life? 4.What abilities or traits may help a person become a succeful engineer ? Do you think that you are a succeful engineer ?
听力教程： 第1单元
1.Different from Amy Chua, “the Tiger Mother”, a Chinese father claims himself to be a “Cat”, a docile and gentle role in Chinese culture, who succefully sent his daughter to Harvard University in a liberal parenting style.Which parenting style do you prefer? 2.Do you know some differences between Chinese and American parenting styles? 3.Describe a challenging experience or opportunity you met in the university? What the challenge or opportunity is.
How you overcome or grasp it.
What you have learned from this experience.4.There are five styles of parenting based on Dr.Baumrind.They are authoritarian, authoritative, permiive, uninvolved and evil cyborg.Decide which one is good for a 5-year-old preschooler, a 14-year-old college student respectively.5.Work in small groups and have an interview with your group members on the topic “the biggest challenge of the university life”.Then report your findings to another group.6.Should public schools in China eliminate the traditional 0-100 grading scale? And if so, what aement do we replace it with?
第2单元
1.Do you know where your money goes ? Keep a spending log and record everything you spend.How do you manage your personal finance ? 2.Do you agree that “Money talks” ? What are the things that money can buy and cannot buy? 3.Role play:Borrow money from your clamates.4.Have you ever met the situation that your parents have different attitudes toward your values about money? And what’s the difference or big contrast between your parent’s attitude and yours? Interview five of your clamates and then report your findings to the whole cla.5.Earlier in May 2011,Yahoo,the largest stakeholder of Alibaba said the ownership of Alipay , Alibaba’s online payment platform , had been shifted to a Chinese firm owned mostly by Alibaba chairman Jack Ma without the knowledge or approval of Alibaba’s board of directors or shareholders ,which also include Japan’s Softbank Corp .What is your opinion of Alipay Dispute ? Do you support Ma’s decision of the transfer ? Defend your viewpoint with justifiable evidences.
第3单元
1 What do you usually do in your free time ? 2 What kinds of leisure activities are popular in China today ? 3 Olympic Games had attracted the attention of whole world ,and in 2010 Guangzhou succefully held the 16 th Asian Games .Discu the significance of such global and regional sports events.4 Some people prefer to spend their free time outdoors .Other people prefer to spend their leisure time indoors .Interview five of your clamates and then report your findings to the cla .5 Some people prefer to plan activities for their free time very carefully.Others choose not to make any plans at all for their free time .Compare the benefits of planning free-time activities with the benefits of not making palns.Which do you prefer ? Planning or not planning for your leisure time ?USE specific reasons and examples to explain your choice .
第4单元
1、What do you think is the most useful thing that man has ever discovered? Why?
2、What`s the difference between ancient and modern architecture(建筑)in China?
3、Should children be taught arts and crafts at school?
4、Tell a story about a past experience related to engineering.Remember to stay in the past axis(轴)when you say it.
5、Genetic engineering(基因工程) is popular in agriculture and medical research.It is said that people would be modified genetically just like the plots in Gattaca.Interview five of your clamates for their opinion on build-in modification before birth and then report your findings to the whole cla.
6、Will modern technology help or destroy human beings? Decides which side you will take and then argue for your choice.
