2015新目标英语八年级下Unit4B部分3课时精品课件.ppt

Discuss with your partners. What do you do when you have problems? What activities do you like to do to help lower your stress? Why? Which is your most favorite activity to lower stress? Why? Look at the words in bold in the article. Can you guess their meanings? Try to match them with the meanings below. 2c 1. Keeps on happening __________ 2. Physical exercise and practice of skills ________ 3. Worries about things at home, school or work _____ 4. Usual or common ______ continues training stress typical 5. Try to be the best or the first to finish something ___________ 6. Getting better or bigger ___________ 7. Looking for differences and similarities between things __________ compete development comparing Read the article again and answer the questions. 2d 1. Does Cathy Taylor think it’s important for kids to join after-school activities? 2. Does Linda Miller agree with Cathy? What’s her opinion? Yes. He does. No. She thinks it is unfair to compare their kids with other children. She thinks people shouldn’t push their kids so hard. 3. Does Dr. Green agree with Cathy or Linda? What does she say? Dr. Green agrees with Linda. She says, “Kids should have time to relax and think for themselves, too. Although it’s normal to want successful children, it’s even more important to have happy children.” Linda Miller, a mother________, knows all about such_______. “In some families, ___________ starts very young and continues _____the kids get older,” she says. “Mothers______ their small kids ____ all kinds of classes. And they are always __________ them _____ other children. It’s crazy. I don’t think that’s ______. Why don’t they just _____ their kids be kids? People shouldn’t _____ their kids so ______. of three stress competition until send to comparing with fair let hard push Fill in the blanks and then retell Para3-4 : Doctors say too much pressure isn’t good for a child’s ____________. Dr. Alice Green says all these activities