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Unit 7 Making a Living Objectives Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea (Bill Porter the salesman will never give in) and structure of the text (4 parts, 2 flashbacks); 2. appreciate the characteristics of journalistic writing; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; 4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Time Allotment 1st period 2nd period 3rd period 4th period Pre-reading tasks Cultural notes Text organization Language study Language study Text analysis Post-reading tasks Pre-reading Tasks 1. Tasks Ss the following questions on the song: — Why does Onetta think it worthwhile to work hard day after day? (People need her; some people care for her; she keeps her integrity by working hard.) — Would you rather have a low paid job that is interesting or a well-paid job that is boring? 2. Role play: Classroom salesman 1) T lets Ss read the title of Text A, then announces that the class is to do a role-play. One student will act as a salesperson. All other students will act as his / her potential customers. 2) T appoints a student with a relatively advanced level of English to act as the salesperson. He / She will leave the classroom, think of a product to sell, and plan his / her sales talk. The product should be relevant to campus life. 3. T leads in to the text by saying: From the role-play we know the sale of goods is rather a difficult job. It is even more difficult for a handicapped person, like Bill Porter in Text A. (1 minutes) Text Organization and Analysis Parts Paragraphs Time of the Day Main Ideas Part 1 Paras 1-7 Early morning Preparation for the day’s work Part 2 Paras 8-25 Mid-morning On his way to work Part 3 Paras 26-62 day Door-to-door selling Part 4 Para 63-84 evening Paper work This article first appeared in a newspaper; therefore it carries many characteristics of journalistic writing. First of all, a journalist tri