Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

c. never reach   d. never reached
8. —what were you doing when tony phoned you?
—i had just finished my work and _____ to take a shower.
a. had started  b. started
c. have started  d. was starting
9. the crazy fans _____ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived.
a. were waiting    b. had been waiting
c. had waited   d. would wait
10. —you were out when i dropped in at your house.
—oh, i _____ for a friend from england at the airport.
a. was waiting     b. had waited
c. am waiting    d. have waited
key: 1-5 bbacc   6-10 cadba

stepⅱ skills building i
t: we have learned some words related to emotion. can you give me some examples?
s: happy, sad, exciting, fearful, frustrated, lonely, frightened, content, jealous, concerned, angry, confused and so on.
t: good! when you discuss problems, fears, and worries, which words will you use to describe your feeling?
s: i will say i feel sad / fearful / frustrated ...
t: yes! and they are called negative emotional language. next, we’ll learn more about that.
ask students to read and try to remember words, structures and images listed on page 26.
t: can you list some sentence structures to describe the feeling?
s: i will just say i feel unhappy today.
t: so the structure i feel ... can be used. any others?
s: i hope the things can turn better in the future. so i will say i wish ...
s: i will just tell others that it makes me feel ...
t: that’s the way to tell others about your feelings directly. let’s look at the structures:
show the following.
i feel like ...
they make / it makes me feel ...
i wish ...
i’m tired of ...
t: well done, everybody. we have also learned some idioms to describe the feeling. can you remember?
ss: yes!
s: for example: hot under the collar, down in the dumps, feel blue, fly off the handle.
t: very good! i will introduce you more. for example: under a black cloud, stuck / caught between.

step ⅲ practice
t: just now, we learned some words, structures, idioms that can be used to express the negative emotion. let’s do some exercises. please look at exercise a on page 26. this is a letter on your school’s website. the writer has some problems now. read the letter carefully and then answer the following questions.
show the following questions to the students.
1. what do ma jie’s parents want him to do.
2. what does ma jie’s coach think?
3. why does ma jie feel guilty?
4. what’s ma jie’s problem?