I used to be afraid of the darkunit 2 reading Section 1Section 1Everyone has Everyone has problems! Now work problems! Now work in pairs to tell your in pairs to tell your partner about a time partner about a time your parents helped your parents helped you with a you with a problem.problem.Zhao Kang YapatientSection 2Section 2Using contextAlways use the information around the word or phrase you don’t understand to help you guess the meaning .using context can help you learn new words and phrases. Section 3Section 3How was he able to change?and didn’t give up trying to help himThat’s when I decided to changeafter his father’s death a few years agoEven the teacher agreed that Martin was wasting his timeMissing languageMissing language5522441133 Martin Murray is a fifteen-year-old boy. He used to be a “problem child” , but a recent conversation with his mother changed his life. He didn’t use to give his mother many problems. However, 1 )after his father’s death a few years ago , Martin’s life became much more difficult. His mother couldn’t afford to pay for her child’s education. To do this, she had to work, and so was not often at home.death n. 死 ; 死亡 die ---dying v. dead adj.afford v. 买得起 ; 负担得起 ( 常与 can 或 be able to 连用 ) afford to do sthHis mother looked after him as well as she could. Unfortunately, Martin still caused problems for himself and his family. He was not interested in studying and he often got into trouble with the police. Luckily, his mother was very patient 2) and didn’t give up trying to help him. In the end , she made a difficult decision: to send him to a boy’s boarding school. Martin hated it and used to cause a lot of tro...
