Suggested answers

Step 3. Fast-reading

1. Zhou Kai (1)

1) let the students look at the picture of Zhou Kai and ask the students to guess the characters of the boy.

2). Ask students to read Zhou Kai (1) and try to answer the following questions individually.

1).Why is Zhou Kai' s mother anxious?

2). What does she think will happen?

3). What does she ask him to do?

Suggested answers:

1).Because he is going out to play football in the rain.

2).She thinks Zhou Kai will catch a bad cold.

3).She asks him to at least wear his jacket.

2. The students are required to draw a flow chart about how Zhou Kai caught a cold?

3. Zhou Kai (2)

1.Ask students to skim the passage and try to answer the following questions:

1).How are Passage 1 and 2 connected?

2).Does Zhou Kai have a healthy lifestyle, in your opinion?

Suggested answers:

1). They are connected because they both mention that he got ill through playing football in the rain.

2). Yes, Zhou Kai has a healthy lifestyle because his mother gives him lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. He eats fish, not fatty meat or sugar and sweets. He also exercises regularly, playing a lot of football.

2. Ask students to march the topic sentence of each paragraph.

3. Students are encouraged to read the passage and choose the correct answers.

Zhou Kai's family _________.