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5 seconds later T: Well, what information are we to listen for? Ss: Figures. T: Yes. Listen to the tape and plete the table, please. Then check the answers. Activity six: Deal with Exercise 4 First, have students look at the key words. Then have two students read out the sample dialogue. T: In the box of key words, we can see some words describing trends. The first two lines reflect rise and the next two reflect decrease. And the last one reflects unstable situation. Do you know all of them? ... Who’d like to tell the difference between climb and rocket? S1: Let me try. I think rocket means increase very rapidly and climb means increase slowly. S2: I remember in the radio news, when the percent of households with cars and puters are referred, it says “The percentage of households with cars has climbed from 62% to 72%”, while “the percentage of households with puters has rocketed dramatically from around 3% to over 40%”, so I totally agree with him/her. T: Good, both of you have done well. Next which two would like to read out the sample dialogue? S3: The number of crimes has gone down over the last twenty years. S4: False. It has gone up by double. T: OK. Then work in pairs, taking turns to say true or false statements from memory about trends in British society just as the example. Go round and monitor the activity, helping and correcting when necessary. Step III Reading Ask the Ss to read the text on Page 34 and learn what the writer says about consumer society. Prereading Activity one: Leading in T: I think you’ve heard that our salary has raised a lot over the past two years, haven’t you? Ss: Yes. T: We earn more and we live better day by day. Once, people in our country lived in a time of wars. At that time, people had little to live on. People went without food sometimes. In the movies, we can see that some people were eating bark when they were hungry. As a result of, they wouldn’t mind what they were wearing, and they only wanted to get more food to eat. After the People’s Republic of China was established, national reconstruction returned to normal. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, people live a better life gradually. And the economy has developed greatly. Now, we live in a peaceful era. We are trying to build a harmonious society. We earn more year by year and we spend more too. From what one possesses, we can judge how wealthy one is. From the construction of a city, we can see how developed the city is. To some degree, we can judge a country by what its people possess. Now most countries devote main efforts to social economic development. In order to develop national economy, we as consumers are encouraged to buy houses, cars and so on to give an impetus to production. We call such a society “consumer society”. Activity two: Before you start Deal with Exercise 1 T: Look a