Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles Text A True Height Part 1 Pre-reading tasks Part 2 While-reading tasks Part 3 Post-reading tasks Text B Fourteen Steps Translation

I. Teaching Plan (5 periods) Objectives: Students will be able to: 1.Understand the main idea and structure of the text. 2.Learn some rules of interpreting new vocabulary and usage related to computers and the Internet in English

Quotations about fatherhood: Few things are more satisfying thanseeing your own children haveteenagers of their own——DougLarson Raising kids is part joy and partguerilla warfare——Ed Asner

Pre-Reading Tasks 1. Answer the following questions : What happened to Abraham Lincoln oneday? How is the story related to the theme of theunit – values?

Structure Present and future values Intertemporal budget constraint Preferences for intertemporal consumption Intertemporal choice Comparative statics Valuing securities

Structure Money equivalent of utility gains totrade Consumer’s surplus Changes in consumer’s surplus Compensating and equivalentvariations Producer’s surplus

Structure Market equilibrium Quantity tax and equilibrium Tax incidence （税收分担） Deadweight loss （额外净损失）

Structure Describing technologies Production set or technology set Production function Isoquant Marginal product Returns to scale Technical rate of substitution Well-behaved technologies Long run and short run

Structure From Individual to Market DemandFunctions Elasticities Revenue and own-price elasticity ofdemand Marginal revenue and price elasticity

Structure State contingent consumption (依情 形而定的消费） State-contingent budget constraint Preferences under uncertainty Choice under uncertainty Risk aversion Diversification and risk spreading