Unit24 Society Lesson1Consumer Society Reading （使用范圍：選修8 Unit24 Society） Learning Aims:（學(xué)習(xí)目標(biāo)） Practise reading skills---fast reading and careful reading. Read and understand the article, knowing about the spending circle in the consumer society; Step1:Revision(知識(shí)回顧) Have a dictation. Step2: Check preview（檢查預(yù)習(xí)） Check their books.(page34) Step3:Lead—In(導(dǎo)入) 1. Have you got any pocket money? 2. If so, how do you spend it? Step4:Self-study and Cooperation（自主學(xué)習(xí)與合作探究） Skim and match each paragraph with the given key words. Para 1 A.Suggestions given to resist the consumer Society Para 2    B.What the spending circle is like Para 3 & 4      C.Results of the spending circle Para.1 Many of us are _________ in a spending circle. We work hard to ________________. And then we ____________, and because of this we have to work _____________. Sometimes we try to _______ or change our money into different countries’__________ to earn more money, but we usually feel disappointed. We start putting our _________ on credit cards to spend money we don’t even have. Besides, the more we earn, the more ______ we have to pay to those who ______ us. The circle goes round and round and gets more and more ___________. Para.2 We work towards the __________ of bigger and better houses and cars which feel like a ________ because every month we have to _________ most of the money we earn to pay for them. The result of this is that we don’t feel ________ happiness, but ______ and less free time to be ourselves and enjoy being with our friends and families. Para.3 We’re still ___________ than those who wear ______ and sleep on the streets or in _________ buildings, but there is a growing ___________ to this consumer society. Para.4 As a society, it’s ______ time that we ______ these issues more seriously. Advertising should be more ___________, especially advertising ________ children. Make sure that there are better ways for young people to use their free time ____________ spending money. On a _________ level, we should visit the shops _____ and worry _______ about image. Above all, we should remember that “ _______” and “_______” are much more important than “_________”. Step5：Showing and explaining(展示與點(diǎn)評(píng)) Some group members give their answers.(part4)Correct or explain if neccesary. Step6: Doing exercises（課堂檢測） 課文縮寫 Many of us in ____________ societies are ____________ in spending circles. In order to earn more money we have to work even ____________. But the more money we earn, the less often we see it, because we buy what we want by putting our ____________ on the credit cards. Though we are ____________off than those who are poor. There is a ____________ resistance to this consumer society. Protest groups are ____________ that some of our money be given to the third world. Trade unions demands that the government ____________ the working hours. As a society, it is high time that we ____________ these issues more ____________. 一．1B 2C 3A 二． Trapped earn more money spend more even harder deposit currencies Signatures tax govern complicated ownership burden hand over increased stress better off rags vacant resistance high took controlled aimed at apart from personal less less being doing having 三．developed trapped harder signatures better growing insisting shorten took seriously 一．1B 2C 3A 二． Trapped earn more money spend more even harder deposit currencies Signatures tax govern complicated ownership burden hand over increased stress better off rags vacant resistance high took controlled aimed at apart from personal less less being doing having 三．developed trapped harder signatures better growing insisting shorten took seriously 一．1B 2C 3A 二． Trapped earn more money spend more even harder deposit currencies Signatures tax govern complicated ownership burden hand over increased stress better off rags vacant resistance high took controlled aimed at apart from personal less less being doing having 三．developed trapped harder signatures better growing insisting shorten took seriously - 3 -