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Unit 6 Shop till you drop! Teaching plan Active Reading 1 Retail therapy or shopaholism Teaching Objectives: 1. Master the new words and key phrases. 2. Make good use of some expressions and grammar points from the text. 3. Obtain some useful expressions of talking about shopping. 4. Appreciate a discussion type of article: stating an opinion and using facts and examples to illustrate it. 5. Have a critical view on the consumption age 拥有一个正确的消费观，对现代的消费时代有个批判性的评价 Time allotment: 4 periods Teaching method: Task-based method and communicative language teaching Teaching key point: language points: words, phrases, useful expressions and difficult sentences Teaching difficulty: some difficult sentence structures Teaching procedure: The first two periods Ⅰ. Warm-up activities: (20 mins) 1. Watch the movie clip, discuss the questions with desk mates and share the information in class: (15 mins) 1) How often do you go shopping? In general, I go shopping once a month/twice a season/three times a year/four times a year… 2) What do you spend most money on? I usually spend most of my money on clothes/shoes/cosmetics/books/food/girlfriend/ computer games/electronic products… 3) Which do you prefer to use, credit cards or cash, given that you have a credit card? Why? I prefer credit card, because… 4) Do you try to save money? Yes, I do, because… 2. Introduce 4 kinds of shopping: 1) going to the shopping mall; 2) home shopping on TV; 3) online shopping; 4) mail order catalogue shopping. (5 mins) Ⅱ. Global reading: (25 mins) (Ss have been required to do prevision and finish comprehension exercise on P74, Exercise 3) Text organization (17 mins) Listen and read the text and analyze the structure of the article: 1. Introduction (Para.1-4): provides 3 specific examples of shopaholism (Linda, Kate and Carina) and raises the question: is this retail therapy or shopaholism? 2. Body (Para. 5-10): Para.5: Definition and symptoms Para 6-7: result of shopaholism Para 8-9: causes of