Unit 15 Lesson 1 Reading. Pre-reading1. What do you make of the title?It means that we should study all our lives/we should keep on learning/continue to study after formal education.2. Life-long learning is important and necessary. If we stop studying, we will _. (More than one answer is right.)A. get left behindB. not be able to keep up with the timeC. not be able to improve ourselves and get aheadD. be ignorant of the outside world3. What famous sayings do you know about life-long learning?_. ReadingAsk & answer1. How many people are mentioned in the passage? Who are they? And how old are they?_.2. What do they have in common? What can we learn from their examples?_.3. Whats the deal with Sun Wen? And how did he change the situation?_.4. Whats the problem with Ms Tang? And how did she overcome her problem?_.5. Why did Granpa Chen begin to learn how to use the Internet? (More than one answer is right.)A. It costs too much to send letters by airmail.B. He really enjoys the speed at which messages get sent and answered.C. He is tired of writing letters.D. Its fun to see and talk to his grandchildren in the US on the i-Cam. ConsolidationFill in the blanks with the correct form of the words given or according to the context.Im sure you all know the saying, “You cant teach an old dog new tricks.”Well, its certainly not true! Im teaching 1 _ (I) new tricks every day! It all started a few 2 _ (month) ago when the price of postage went up. Id been sending letters by airmail to my daughter in the US once a week. but, suddenly, it was too expensive. I 3_ (decide) that it was time I became an Internet 4 _ (use). I got my grandson to instruct me on 5 _ to email and use the Internet and I really enjoy the speed 6 _ which my messages get sent and answered. And aside from 7 _ (email), its fun to see and talk to my grandchildren in the US on the i-Cam. In the past, if Id wanted to see them, I would have had to visit them 8 _ person. So many people think that after you retire, 9 _ you can do is switch off your brain and bury everything youve ever learnt. This is so wrong!Anyway, its time for me to go now. I have to practise the alphabet! Im doing 10 _ English course on the Internet.资