Unit 1 Role Models

Reading Corner
Read the profile and complete the exercise.

Ms Know-it-all

Ms Wong is one of the best teachers I have ever seen!

She is intelligent. If you close your eyes, you will think that a native
English speaker is teaching you English! She writes English books, which
stand on bookstore shelves. More amazingly, she talks about rock types,
5 supply and demand, and the black hole. We have given her another
name: Ms Know-it-all!

She is fair. She punishes good students, and rewards ‘bad’ students. ‘It
is what you do that I look at, not what people think of you,’ she says.
She is fair to herself, too. When she does a good deed, she buys
10 herself a good lunch. When she makes a mistake, she gives the class
chocolate bars.

She is also passionate. ‘I learned

a lot from my teachers. How
can I repay them? By sharing
15 their goal! Help young people
grow up! Life is not easy for a
teacher, but I never regret being
a teacher,’ she once said.

She is the kind of teacher that makes you feel a desire to become a
20 teacher!
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Comprehension

1. Which of the following statements about Ms Wong is/are true? Put a tick (✓) in the
bracket(s).
Tick only the
a. She is a writer. (   )
statements that
are mentioned in b. She knows music and science. (   )
the article.
c. She teaches economics. (   )
d. Bookstores sell her books. (   )
e. Her English is better than a native speaker’s. (  )
f. She rewards only good students. (   )
g. She thinks making mistakes does not matter. (   )
h. Her goal is to help young people grow up. (   )

Choose the best answer and blacken the circle.

2. The writer probably is .

A. Ms Wong’s student
B. a bookstore manager
C. a native-speaking English teacher A B C D
D. one of Ms Wong’s teachers

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CD Vocabulary Corner

B
Describing Role Models
Fill in the blanks with the words given.

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success mistakes desire goal

• thoughtful (adj):
體貼的 1. John felt a to help when he saw on
• passionate (adj):
TV the hungry children in Africa.
充滿熱誠的
• fair (adj): 公平的
• desire (n): 渴望 2. Mary is about music. She not only
• goal (n): 目標 loves music but she also tries to make other people love
it.

3. Isn’t Ms Lam ? She speaks four

languages fluently!

4. Mum is . She divides everything equally between my brother and I.

5. ‘What do you want to do when you finish secondary school?’

‘My is to study medicine at the university, and then become a

doctor.’

6. ‘Make , and learn from them, and you will become wiser!’ the
teacher said.

7. ‘What is the secret of his ?’

‘He studies for four to five hours every night. He is so .’

8. It was so of her to bring flowers and fruit when she visited me on

my sickbed.
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Language Corner
’ Future Tense
I. ‘will + verb’ is used:

• for probable future. It expresses what e.g. I expect it will be cold tomorrow.
the speaker thinks. It could refer to
the near or the remote future.
• for intention at the moment of e.g. Ann: I’ve left my watch on my desk.
decision. Tom: I will go and get it for you.
• for weather forecasts. e.g. There will be rain.

I will give a dance performance

tomorrow.

II. ‘be going to’ is used:

• for an intention (what one wants to e.g. Sue has just bought fruit and
do) and a plan. It usually refers to the vegetables; she is going to make
near future. some salad.
• for prediction. It implies that there are e.g. Look at those clouds! It is going to
signs that something will happen. rain.

It is going to rain.
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A. What will Daisy do next Saturday?

I will ...

10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. check emails

12.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. have lunch and do some shopping
2.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. go to the fitness centre
4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. take a shower and have dinner
8.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m. go to Mimi’s concert
12.00 a.m. go to bed

e.g. Daisy will check emails in the morning .

1. .

2. .

3. after exercising .

4. .

5. .

B. What are they going to do? Make sentences with the words given.

e.g. She is going to cook dinner.

cook / dinner

1.

win / the race

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2.

take / a shower

3.

have / a haircut

4.

see / the dentist

C. Use ‘will + verb’ or ‘be going to’ to complete the sentences.

1. Helen has prepared some eggs and flour. She (make) some pancakes.

2. Ann: I have left my bag in the library.

Tom: I (go) and get it for you.

3. Look! There’s a big hole in your shirt. Throw it away. I (buy) you a
new one.

4. Joe: We’ve got everything for tomorrow’s barbecue. Oh! We forgot charcoal!
Ian: Alright. I (buy) two bags.

5. Weather forecast: Today’s weather is cloudy and windy but there (be)
sunshine tomorrow. The highest temperature (be) 28°C.
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Writing Corner
Call to Stop a Fall
Study the pictures and complete the story with the words given.

1 2

3 4

closer fallen dug led warn

deep tapping mean stop

The workmen (1) a hole in the pavement. It was large

and (2) . Two ‘danger’ notices were placed by the hole to
(3) off pedestrians. A blind man came walking along. The notices did
not (4) anything to him. He felt his way by (5) his
walking stick on the ground. He stepped closer and (6) to the pit. Just
as he was inches away from the notice, ‘(7) !’ a voice shouted. A boy
ran up to him, took his arm, and (8) him around the hole. ‘There is
a hole,’ the boy said. ‘Oh! I see. Thank you so much! If you had not called, I would have
(9) .’
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Dr Know-all’s Corner

Hi! People call me Dr Know-all because I know

everything. What are the four suits in a pack
of cards called? What are the three face cards
called? Look at the words given and give it a
try.

diamond   spade   club   heart

1. 2.

3. 4.

king   queen   jack

5. 6.

7.