老师将教材发到学生手上（Mara &Marin's story 玛拉与马林的故事），然后回家对照教材先熟悉教材中夫妻之间喜欢什么的提问和回答。而这份教材是需要反复使用的，所以不能在教材上涂写，到时候需要和家庭作业一起交给老师的。
第一页：玛拉：My name is Mara. →我的名字叫玛拉。马林：My husband's name is marin. →我丈夫的名字叫马林。第二页：玛拉：I like to get up early. →我喜欢早起。马林：marin doesn't. He likes to get up late. →马林不喜欢。他喜欢晚起床。
第三页：玛拉：I like gardening. →我喜欢园艺。马林：Marin doesn't. He likes fishing.→马林没有。 他喜欢钓鱼。第四页：玛拉：I like watching the news onTV. →我喜欢在电视上看新闻。马林：Not Marin. He likes, watching car races.→马林不是，他喜欢看车赛。
第五页：玛拉：I love eating spicy food. → 我喜欢吃辣的食物。马林：Marin hates spicy food. He loves eating hamburers→马林讨厌吃辛辣的食物。 他喜欢吃汉堡包。第六页：玛拉：I really like going to the opera. →我真的很喜欢去看歌剧。马林：Marin doesn't. He likes going to the football. →马林不喜欢。他喜欢去看足球。
第七页：玛拉：I love reading.→ 我喜欢阅读。马林：And Marin? He likes sleeping.→ 马林？ 他喜欢睡觉。第八页：玛拉：I enjoy wearing a suit and hat.→ 我喜欢穿着西装和帽子。马林：Marin hates that. He likes wearing shorts and a singlet.→ 马林讨厌 他喜欢穿短裤和背心。
第九页：玛拉：I like going to parties.→我喜欢参加派对。马林：Marin doesn't like parties. He likes staying at home.→马林不喜欢派对。他喜欢呆在家里。第十页：玛拉：were Very different! That's easy to see!→我们有很多不同！很容易看到！马林：But I love my husband. And he loves me!→但是我爱我的丈夫。 他爱我！
最后，还有这篇教材中的一些单词，可供参考。words in the story →故事中的单词。nouns （名词）：animals 动物、car 汽车、food 食物、football 足球、hamburgers 汉堡包、hat 帽子、home 家、husband 丈夫、name 名字、news 新闻、opera 歌剧、parties 派对、races 比赛、shorts 短裤、singlet 单、suit 套装、TV 电视。verbs （动词）：doesn't 不（第三人称或物单数）、eating 吃、fishing钓鱼、gerdening园艺、get 得到、going 去、is 是、like 喜欢、likes（like的第三人称单数）、love爱、loves（ love的第三人称单数）、reading读、see 看到、sleeping睡觉、staying up熬夜、wearing 穿。other words（其他单词）：and、at、but、different、early、easy、he、I、late、me、my、on、spicy、that's、the、to、very、we're。
这是一张家庭作业，先看图说话，将教材中的夫妻的故事中不一样的差异，分别填写在他们名下的格子中。上一部分：How are Mara and Marin different？Tell a few differences？玛拉和马林如何不一样呢？Mara：She like to get up early.She likes gardening.She likes watching the news on TV.She loves eating spicy food.She really like going to the opera.She enjoys wearing a suit and hat.Marin:He like to get up late.He likes watching car races.He loves eating hamburgers.He likes going to the football.He likes wearing shorts and singlet.He likes stying at home.再将自己的丈夫或者妻子，有什么不一样的，也列出几条。下一部分：How are you and your hasband or wife different？Tell a few differences？你和你的丈夫和妻子怎么不一样呢？You:I like playing the computer. I like playing chess. I like playing Chinese chess.I like to write a blog .This is my blog:http://blog.sina.com.cn/lanshanxian818Your husband/wife:She likes to cook.She likes to walk.She likes to clean.She likes to shop.
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