Teaching aims:

Read story about mind the gap.

Important points & difficult points:

Teach them how to write a passage using what they learnt.

Teaching Methods:

Analyze and use.

Teaching Aids:

1. The multimedia

2. The blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

Show pictures to lead in.

Tom is 18. He is British.

He has chosen to take a one-year break between finishing school and starting university. He just wants to broaden his horizons by visiting Australia.

Branny has just left senior school. But she doesn’t want to enter a university. She just wants to take a year off to do charity work around the world before going to university. She is taking a gap year.

Step 2 Part A

"Gap year" is a British English term that refers to a period of time, usually a year, when a student takes time off from full-time education. This year generally taken before a student begins college or university. While the concept of taking a year off to prepare for college is a relatively new on in the US and other countries, in the UK, an estimated 50,000 young people take a gap year prior to attending university.

Questions for you:

1. If you have a chance to take a year off between leaving school and going to university, would you do it?

2. Do you think this would help you get a better job once you finished your studies?

Step 3 Scanning:

Para 1

1. What is the traditional course of a student leaving school?

2. How long is it since thousands of young people took the gap?

3. Which part of the world is not a destination of the students who take one year gap?

Para 2-4.

1. Who are in favour of the gap year?

2. Why do more and more employers preferto hire graduates who have taken a gap year?

Para 5

1. What was Carol’s project last year?

2. What was the benefits of her gap year?

Para 6.

1. What did Daniel Jones do in his gap year?

2. How did he feel living among poor local people?

3. How bad was the situation there?

4. What is he ready to do in the future?

Para 7.

1. What did Martin do in his gap year?

2. What did he want to learn?

3. What had he never done before?

4. How did he feel like being a part of another culture?

Para 8-9.

1. What are exactly the sort of skills employers are looking for?

2. How do you understand the sentence “doing a gap year may give students an

edge in the job market”?

Homework:

1. Review new words and expressions in this unit.

2. Finish the exercises in Workbook.