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Unit Eight  Money
Teaching Objectives
1. To understand the relationship between money and happiness/ crime;
2. To learn to form a proper attitude towards money;
3. Enable the students to learn to make the best use of the money from their parents;
4. Some important new words and phrases should be mastered.
Teaching allotment
6 academic hours. 1)1-2 Preparation 2) 3-4  In-Class Reading: Time Spent Agonizing over Money
3)  5-6  After-Class Reading & Exercises
Focus Points
1. Key words, phrases & usages :
action, affect, afford, bankrupt, breed, consume, contribute, depart, evil, factor, financial, founder, fund, govern, industrial, invention, journal, labor, lamb, lest, miserable, patent, purchase, rare, raw, spin, stock, sum, thirst, vacation, wealthy
2. Difficult sentences  1. Within hours of a recent major stock market drop, I telephoned my Ford dealer and ordered the station wagon that I test-drove the day before.
2. A study in The Wall Street Journal found that 70 percent of the public lives from paycheck to paycheck.
3. It is an unusual person who can live free from financial stress, or who can spend money on others as easily as he spends it on himself.
4. Had the great inventor stored his money, he would have died a wealthy man.
5. Money may not be the root of all evil, but if it keeps us up at night, it has become way too important in our lives.
3. Grammar focus
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Methods of Teaching
1) Using multi-media teaching equipment （应用多媒体教学手段）（应用多媒体教学手段）
2) Group-Discussion （分组讨论）（分组讨论）
3) Debating (辩论――金钱是否是万能的？)
I. Related Information:
Cultural Information
Normally we think of money as the coins and paper notes that are used as a standard medium of exchange or payment within any particular country. Great Britain has the pound, France has the franc, China has the Y uan, and the United States the dollar. But in all
technologically advanced societies, there are now many different kinds of money. Wealth is not only
measured by the amount of coins and paper notes that we possess but also by various types of assets. Aside from, real estate and other forms of material wealth like paintings or jewelry, some people can also own stocks and bonds. The resources of a company are divided into portions or shares that are issued in the form of transferable certificates called stocks. If a company does well, the profits are divided among stockholders. I f a government or a company wants to borrow money, it can issue bonds or certificates of debt that promise to pay back by a certain date the money borrowed plus interest. The risk factor is much higher in stocks. Bonds provide a safer form of investment but they are less profitable. Both stocks and bonds are bought and sold on the stock market.
There have always been moral issues related to money. Some societies regarded lavish spending as morally wrong, while others considered lending money at a high rate of interest as a social crime. Many stories have been written on the miser’s greed for money. According to bible, ―the love of money is the root of all evil.ǁ The famous playwright, George Bernard Shaw state that, in the final analysis, it was not the love but the lack of money that was the root of all evil.
While it is true that money causes all kinds of problems, it is equally true that in today’s society it is a necessary evil.
Key Words Related to the Text
1. Bible: The holy book of the Christian, consisting of the Old Testament and New Testament.
2. Bernard Shaw(1856-1950): great Irish––born English dramatist, critic and essayist.
2. Bernard Shaw(1856-1950): great Irish
II. Suggested Class Activities:
I.  Warming-up Activity: Values on Money
Purpose: Getting to know the real value of money
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Form:  Group discussion and individual statement
Step 1;  work in pairs to discuss respective views on money
Step 2:  report the results to the class: you way of getting and spending money
Step 3:  concluding remarks given by the teacher making full use of the money you have
Suggested words /expressions
Labor at/spend money as water flows/money makes the world go around  Reminds: try to guide the students to develop a right attitude towards money
II.  Activity for further development:  Is money the No.1 in your life?
Purpose : Teach them to make good use of money    Form:职校生
Group discussion and individual statement
Step 1:  Work in groups to discuss what kind of role money plays in your life    Step 2:
Reports your ideas to the class the importance of money and try to analyze whether money is the most important thing in the world.
Step 3: The teacher may put forward the opposite view view——Is money the root of all evils (P.142.3.(2)).
Suggested words/expressions:
Set a goal/.living style/luxury . What begins as something we want turns into something we need.
III. Further development:
IV . In-Class Reading
Words and phrases
1. affect  v . have an influence on (sb or sth ); produce an effect on
effect n . result or influence
< Alcohol affect Alcohol affects drivers’ concentr s drivers’ concentr s drivers’ concentration. ation.
Alcohol has very bad effect on drivers.
2. agonize  v . suffer great anxiety or worry intensely (about something);  agonize over/about  : If you agonize over/ about  sth, you spend time anxiously trying to make
a decision about it.
e.g . She agonized for days about whether she should accept his proposal. We agonized over/about his wound.
agony n. extreme mental or physical suffering (a state/feeling of ) extreme physical or mental pain /suffering
< The man injured in the explosion lay screaming in agony.
He is in an agony of doubt/ indecision/ suspense.
agonized  adj. expressing agony 表示痛苦的表示痛苦的
e .g . He gave out an agonized cry. (showing extreme physical pain)
She gave him an agonized look. (extremely anxious)
agonizing adj. causing agony 使人痛苦的使人痛苦的
< The sudden pain above his heart was agonizing. (extremely painful)
They are faced with an agonizing decision. (causing extremely anxiety)
注：此处情况与第７课教案第３处相同，是否需要详细讲解？此处情况与第７课教案第３处相同，是否需要详细讲解？
3. amass v.
gather together or collect (money, goods, power, information ,etc.) in great amounts, usually over a long period 尤指大量的积累
辨析：amass, assemble, accumulate, hoard, compile
accumulate: gradually gather together an increasing number or quantity of sth. 含义与
amass 相似，均指长期、大量的积累, 但accumulate 侧重于时间长，
amass 侧重于数量大.
杨思怡assemble: bring (parts) together in a single group or place, or (of parts) to come together like
this. 集合，聚集，收集，侧重于把每个部分聚集起来成为一个整体。集合，聚集，收集，侧重于把每个部分聚集起来成为一个整体。
hoard: collect something and store it away, collect (large amounts of sth ) & keep in a safe
often secret place.储藏积聚，尤其指囤积粮食、紧俏商品或将钱财、贵重物品收
藏于秘密地点藏于秘密地点
hoard sth. (up) compile: collect (information) from a variety of places & arrange it in a book, report or list.
< They amassed enough evidence to ensure his conviction.
It took them ten years to accumulate evidence to ensure his conviction.
By investing wisely, she amass/accumulated a fortune.
When the fire alarm rang we assembled outside the emergency exit.
She assembled a fascinating collection of doll’s houses.
This millionaire hoarded cash in Switzerland in the 2nd World War.
The miser hoarded up treasure under his bed.
We’re compiling some facts &figures for a documentary on the subject. 4. aspire v . have a strong ambition to achieve something  渴望成就某事，对某事物有雄心/野心野心
aspiring adj . 有抱负的有抱负的
aspiration n. strong desire or ambition
aspirant n.
辨析：aspire, desire, thirst 词义：三者都有渴望得到或成就某事物的含义，desire 程度最轻，表示一种“希望、愿望”；
aspire 含有“雄心勃勃或富有野心”的意思，多表示渴望得到权势、钱财、知识或实现某种事业；thirst 表示“渴望”的程度最重，与aspire 有相似之处，也可用于“渴望复仇”等。“渴望复仇”等。
用法：v . aspire after/to sth ；
n . aspiration (for/after sth.)
v . desire+noun/to do sth ；
time is money
好累的说说句子n . desire (for sth./to do sth.)
v. thirst for sth e.g . He aspires  after wealth and power.
Aspirants  to positions of power are prepared to do almost anything to fulfill their
ambitions.
He is an aspiring young man who aspires to science.
Her aspirations  to help others come from her own misfortunes when she was a child.
He has aspirations  to be a scientist.
We all desire  happiness and health.
I desire  nothing other than to be left in peace.
The President desires  to meet the new Prime Minister.
They have little desire  for  power.
These village students thirst for knowledge.
Hamlet thirsted  for  revenge. 5. consume v . use time, energy, goods, etc. up; destroy (sb./sth.) completely by fire, decay, etc.; (fig.)feel the thoughts or feelings continuously, especially in a damaging way
辨析：
spend v .
龙猫电脑壁纸spend sth (on sth) give/pay out (money) for goods, services, etc
spend sth (on sth/in doing sth) use (time, etc) for a purpose; use sth up, exhaust sth
e.g . America consumes a lot of fuel every year.
They soon consumed their fortune.
The wooden hut was soon consumed by the fire.
He was consumed with envy.
She spends all her money on clothes.
We spent our energy cleaning the place up.
I have spent all my time in working this afternoon.
Fire consume/ the whole building . consumables pl. n. goods, esp. food, or services which people buy regularly because they’re
quickly used & need to be replaced quite often.
< In hospital, bandages, surgical stockings &gloves are all consumables.
consumer n. person buying goods /services for their own
consumer durables goods that last a long time & are not intended to be bought very frequently.
consumerism n. state of advanced industrial society in which a lot of goods are bought & sold,
or disapproving) the state in which too much attention is given to buying &
owning things
< He dislikes Christmas time & its extreme consumerism.
consuming  adj. very strong
< Running is a consuming passion Running is a consuming passion with him---it’s his whole life it’s his whole life
consumption  n . the amount used/ eaten
e.g . reduce fat consumption cut down fuel consumption
(fig)This memo is for internal consumption only.
6. contribute  v . help to cause sth
contribute to sth ：give (money, support, help, ideas) towards a particular aim or purpose  contribute (sth) (to/towards sth)