2014届高考英语二轮专题复习系列精品课件阅读与写作练习.pptVIP

* Education To know the difference between a fact and a myth 4. To relate the text to the students’ own knowledge, interests and views 5. To share experiences and opinions 3. To learn some useful expressions and practice using them 2. To practice reading skills such as predicting, guessing, skimming and scanning A guessing game Warm-up Guess the meanings of the following words and phrases with the help of pictures a toddler a very young child who is just learning to walk the early bird someone who gets up early in the morning pushy parents parents who make their children work very hard to become successful, usually by giving them too much pressure genius (some one who has) a very high level of intelligence, mental skill or artistic ability Pre-reading your experiences Do you like watching TV when you were a toddler? What kind of TV programs did you like watching? Did you benefit from watching TV? Are you an early bird or a night owl? What time of the day do you work with the highest efficiency? Do you have pushy parents? Do you always find it hard to live up to their expectations? Do you think their pushiness plays a positive or negative role in your ? Did you have a happy childhood? If not, do you remember any particular thing that made you unhappy? Do you believe there’s potential genius within yourself? If a technique can help improve your performance in various fields, would you like to have a try? Look at the following statements. Do you think they are facts or myths? Watching TV is bad for toddlers 5. We all have genius within us 4. childhood is The happiest time 3. Pushy parents help children succeed 2. The early bird catches the worm First reading You are going to read one of the 5 articles. Find out whether the headline is correct summary of the article. Second reading Read the rest 4 articles and tick the best summary of each article according to the information in