unit3 parents and children.ppt

Warm-up 1. Children are the parents’ riches.子女是父母的至宝。 2. A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.孩童是世界上最可爱和最纯洁的。 3. Happy is he that is happy in childhood. 童年时快乐的人是幸福的。 Get started Do you often call your parents? How often? Do you remember the birthday of your parents? Do you think that your parents are the most important people in your life? Why or why not? What is the ideal relationship between parent and their children in your view? In Chinese culture, some parents believe that they raise children so that their children will look after them when they are old. Do you accept this view? Do you agree that parents are often willing to sacrifice a lot for their children? . Listen and Respond Piggy bank Plastic Typewriter Cashier Sales tax Cash register Exclaim lap The girl felt _____________(1)when her sisters came because she had forgotten that it was __________________(2). She did not _____________(3) to know that, so she quickly took one dollar ---the only money she had---from her piggy bank. She was sure that with this one dollar she could buy her mother a present that would show her mother _____________(4), but when she went into a shop she found that one dollar________________(5) as much as she thought it would. She finally chose a plastic heart that was ______________(6) cents. When she went to the cashier to make the payment, she was told that it cost more than a dollar because of the sales tax. She was so disappointed and had to_____________(7). Then the cashier put some of her own pennies into the _________________(8) and gave her the heart in a bag. When the girls mother saw the present, she exclaimed, ___________________(9) ! and she then put the little girl on ___________(10) and told her that she loved the heart and the girl. Structure The writer recalls the days when she and her mother would meet and chat about life under a pine tree in the park nearby. After the writer’s mother died, the writer still brought