Unit Six Success
In-Class Reading Finding Happiness
I. Teaching Objectives
王者充值 1. Understanding Styles: Narration
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2. Vocabulary Items: anonymous, countless, dedication, distinguished, escalate, view…as, expo someone to, place stress on…
3. Structural Items: Attributive clau
II. Suggestive Teaching Steps
1. Warming-up Questions
Ask students to discuss the definition of success.
2. First Reading
Ask students to read through the text for the first time and find answers to the questions printed in the margin before class.
3. Second Reading
After the explanation of the text, ask the students to do exercis 1,2 in class.
4. Language Study
1) Divide students into veral groups and allow them 5 minutes to discuss the language difficulties in each paragraph.
2) The teacher answers students’ questions and explains some language points ignored by the students.
3) After the explanation of the text, ask students to do exercis 4, 5.
5. Homework Assignment
1) Ask students to do exercis 2,3 on their textbooks with a pencil after class.
2) Ask students to write a composition of success on their exerci books.
6. Checkup
1) Ask students to summarize or retell the story.
2) Ask students to translate some difficult ntences into Chine so as to test students’ understanding of the text.
III. Teaching Tips
1. Brief Introduction to the Text
The article is a narration of a rearch on how to obtain success and its results. A five-year study of 120 of America's top artists, athletes and scholars led by University of Chica
go education professor Benjamin Bloom has finally revealed that it is drive and determination that led to their extraordinary success. The rearch has also found that the top performers achieved great accomplishments by persistence and hard-training in their youth, and then began to develop their own style in a higher stage. At last Bloom is convinced that natural talent only plays a minor role and lots of individuals can achieve extraordinary success if given right encouragement and training.
2. Word Study
1). anonymous adj. having or giving no name
The flowers were nt by an anonymous admirer.
The writer of this article wishes to remain anonymous.
The Foundation received an anonymous donation of $50, 000.
2). countless adj. too numerous to be counted
In addition to the great modern classics on childcare, there are countless articles in magazines and
newspapers.
3). escalate v. to increa in extent, volume or scope
The government escalated the war by starting to bomb enemy cities.
Inflation / College tuitions and fees are escalating.
What started as a small difficulty has escalated into a major crisis?
High unemployment has escalated violence in the cities.
4). gravitate v. to move or tend to move under the influence of gravitation
In the 19th century, industry gravitated towards the north of England.
He eventually gravitated from amateur tennis to the professional circuit.
He believes that career incentives will gravitate strongly toward applied science.
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5). inkling n. a vague notion
He didn't have the faintest inkling of what it was all about.
Could you give me some / any / an inkling of what the committee's findings are likely to be?
I did't have the slightest inkling that she was so ill.
He hasn't got an inkling how to do it.
6). outstanding adj. conspicuous for excellence结党营私
Agatha Christie stands out as a real master of mystery stories.
第五次经济普查 Madam Curie is honored for her outstanding contributions to science.
7). recognition n. to know about something， to appreciate the excellence of sth. e
She hoped she would avoid recognition by wearing dark glass and a hat.
Illness and age had changed her beyond recognition.
The new government has not yet received recognition from other countries.
He is a young writer struggling for recognition.
8). lead to: result in
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That political scandal led to his downfall.
9). as: as
They viewed1到99朵玫瑰的含义 his action as a breach of trust/contract.
She viewed his behavior as an insult.
In the United States the Japane are sometimes viewed as a threat to their domestic industries.
10). regardless of not considering
They decorated the hou regardless of cost.
All our proposals were rejected, 小学作文regardless of their merits.
11). expo someone to to keep in touch with
As a journalist in the war he was expod to many dangers.
He threatened to expo her to the school authorities.
12). place stress on:
