基金，汇率，利润，通胀，外贸，股票，财政……对于初学者而言，经济学似乎是一门“高大上”的学科：晦涩难懂的定义让人难以捉摸，纷繁复杂的理论让人抓耳挠腮。

Funds, exchange rates, profits, inflation, foreign trade, stocks, financial policies ... For beginners, economics seems to be a difficult discipline: there are too many obscure definitions and complicated theories.

但是，在苏城外国语学校，这一切都将被化繁为简！在国际高中部的经济课堂上，老师带领着学生，将生活中的点点滴滴与经济学理论紧密相连，把所学内容搭建成系统的知识体系。

However, in SCFLS, everything is much easier and closely related to life! In an economics class in Senior High School, the teacher leads the students to link everything in life with economics theories, and build a coherent knowledge structure.

在本节课开始之前，学生就已学习了宏观和微观经济学、基本经济体制、供求关系与价格变化，以及价格弹性等知识。因此，本堂课的教学目标是：

1. 结合生活中的事件，运用所学经济学理论分析其对市场造成的影响，并搭建知识框架；

2. 探索市场经济体制中的竞争与激励的重要性。

Before this class, students have learnt what macroeconomics and microeconomics cover, basic economic systems, demand and supply, and price elasticity. Therefore, the objectives of this class are:

1. To apply economics theories in analyzing how events in life affect the corresponding markets, and to build a knowledge structure accordingly; 

2. To explore the importance of competition and incentive in a market economic system.

教师对学生进行异质分组，每组学生的学习水平由高至低均匀分配，并分别拿到一张最近发生的新闻图片。针对该图片，学生需展开小组讨论，在规定时间内，结合已有知识，思考一个充满开放性的问题。

Students on different levels are grouped together, and a news picture is allocated to each group. Students need to discuss on their assigned pictures, and think about an open-ended question within a limited period of time.

在讨论过程中，教师全程跟踪、记录学生的思路，并适时引导，帮助他们逐步构建第二单元整章的知识体系，将零散的知识以思维导图的形式串联起来，让学生认识到经济理论的内在关系。

During their discussion, the teacher tracks and records students’ thoughts, and guides them to connect the dots in unit 2 with a mind map, enabling them to realize the interrelationship between economics theories.

为鼓励学生进行多角度、批判性思考，并考察课堂关注度，小组展示完毕后，不同组之间即可进行互评，学生对他组观点提出自己的建议和想法。

to encourage students to think from various perspectives and critically, and to test their attention when other groups are giving presentations, students from different groups give feedback to each other, offering their advice and ideas.

中文撰稿：金恺秋

 英文翻译：金凯秋

摄影：张佩怡 

英文审核：语言中心

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