Period 9 Task (2)

Learning aims

1. To develop reading skills by reading four diary entries and a letter. asking for advice.

2. To understand the mood of the writer.

Important and difficult points

1. To read for main idea.

▲Self-study: read the instructions on page 34 to see how to read for the main idea

▲Warm up

Please read the four diary entries and fill in the form.

●Please read the letter and find the answers to the following questions:

* Who wrote the letter?

* To whom is the letter written?

* Why is the letter written?

●Answer the questions below.

●根据上下文填空，每空一词。

Dear Dr Fang,

I am writing to your magazine's 'Teenagers Now' column ____ask for some help with my 15-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost everything _____his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child and we treat him very well. His grandparents buy him many things, and ____he is still rude to us. He refuses to spend time with us or do ___we tell him. Sometimes he acts as _____he doesn't even love us at all.

Recently he has been refusing to do his homework, and instead insists ____wasting his time watching DVDs and listening to the foreign music. I cannot understand this music, but I don't like it. He _____spends too much time in Internet cafes, ______ he either plays games or chats online. He is wasting valuable time during this important period in his life.

What am I to do? At present, to prevent upsetting his mother with an argument, I am allowing him his freedom. ______, I am worried that ____ I keep allowing him to do what he wants, he may fail at school, or worse. How can I help my son ____harming our relationship?

Yours sincerely,

Liu Zhen