Unit 4 Today’s trends

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Revision

1. To win the election, the President will need to have the _______ of the votes.

2. At least ________ of the students were absent from class.

3. Sales are up to 8000 from 6000 in the last month-that’s a big ________.

4. I got the correct answers for eighty _________ of the questions on the French test.

5. Short shirts are a _________ this summer.

6. This company sends a _________ to its employees every month.

majority, a couple of, quadruple, one third, percent,

trend, traditional, modern, increase, newsletter

majority

one third

increase

percent

trend

newsletter

New words

athleteexhausted jog

magazine workout

How do you keep fit?

How do most people keep fit?

What are the fitness trends?

You know…more and morePeople are starting to exercise.

Roberto makes Mike join him for a run andThey start talking about exercise trends.

Just because some of the people in your office go to the gym doesn’t make it a trend.

Mike disagrees and points out that the majority of the people he knows don’t exercise.

All of them are enjoying it.

Maybe some of them, but not this one.

All of them are enjoying it.

Yes, I think we’d better.

I think we ought to go home.

What? Hey, you know what?

Video: You ought to get more exercise!

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trend should majority

no one some 28 3 third

many None All most some

Useful Expressions

• more and more

• not necessarily

• such as

• you know what?

越来越多的

不一定例如你知道吗……

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