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3. The Royal Family Many members of the Royal Family undertake official duties in Britain and abroad. Their various responsibilities reflect tradition, their own personal interests and Britain's former imperial status. For example, among her many titles the Princess Royal(Princess Anne)is Chancellor of the University of London, Colonel-in-Chief of eleven Army regiments, including the 8th Canadian Hussars and the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, and President of the Save the Children Fund, for whom she has traveled widely. The Royal Family's money comes from two sources: government funds and their own personal wealth, which is considerable. On the one hand the Queen is certainly one of the richest women in the world, while on the other her power is limited by the fact that so many of her expenses are paid for by government money. Parliament has had effective control of the monarch's finances since the seventeenth century. A survey in 1989 found that 71 per cent of people in Britain thought that the Royal Family offered value for money--this was fewer than in previous surveys. As many as 74 per cent thought the younger Royals should “get proper jobs”. The First Period Teaching Aims: 1. Do some listening and train the student’s listening ability. 2. Talk about the UK and Ireland.3. Practise expressing agreement and disagreement Teaching Important Points: 1. Improve the students' listening ability. 2. Master the expressions for agreement and disagreement. Teaching Difficult Points: 1. Improve the students' listening ability. 2. How to express agreement and disagreement. Teaching Methods: 1. Free-talk method to get the students to talk about the UK and Ireland. 2. Listening activity to have the students go through the listening material. 3. Speaking activity to make the students go through the speaking task and improve the students' speaking ability. Teaching Aids: 1. a computer and a courseware 2. a projector 3. a tape recorder Teaching Procedures: Step I Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. (责任编辑：admin) |