Post-reading activities:
Step 1 Answer the questions below.Please try to find the following sentences in the text and say whether it is the same in Chinese culture. If not, say which is more meaningful in a person’s life.
   1. Save before you buy. 
  2. Don’t lend money and don’t try to buy friends.
   3. Buy only what you can afford.
   4. Don’t compare your possessions with your friends’ possessions.
Step 2 Discussion
   1. If you are a Chinese parent, how will you teach your children to spend money? Why?
   2 .There is an old saying:“Give a person a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a person how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.” What does it mean in Chinese ? What can you learn from it in our daily study?

Step 3  Practice or homework

Ask the students to choose any subject above to read a composition.

Step 4 Summary