Unit Five Ways to Success
Part one: Listen and Talk : (2 periods) Teaching objective:
To help students be familiar with successful celebrities;
To take listening/watching exercises concerning the topic of being successful; To master the skills of giving feedback to partners in the speaking area; To develop students’ fluency skills when they do the communicative task Teaching content:
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Step 1: (25minutes) 1. Guess: tell who they are
Teacher shows the pictures and students guess who they are. Ask students to find at least one common point among these people. 2. Discuss: why they are famous/successful
Ask students: if success equals money or power or social status, yes or no? and why?
Why are these people famous or successful?
Show some pictures and ask students what they think about them. 3. Group discussion: what does success mean to you? Step 2 Listening & Talking (55 minutes) 1. Listening
Success can be reached in different ways by people in different careers. Bill Gates began at age 13 to 1)_______ computers. His vision for personal
What success means to you Listening
What you know about these celebrities and how they succeed Watching: what leads to success Talking
Translating ---culture salon
computing has been central to the success of Microsoft Corporation, the company he 2)_______ with his childhood friend in 1975.
The former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, is a business legend. A famous quote by Mr. Welch is, “Change before you have to.” He believes in leading by example and 3)__________ his employees to do their best every day.
Michael Jordan said, “I accept 4)______, but I can’t accept not trying.” He is
one of the best athletes to ever play team sports. His great smile, athletic 5)___________, and pleasant personality have made him one of the most famous 6)_______ in the world.
Michael Jordan spent a lot of time playing basketball as a child but in senior middle school he was taken off the team. Instead of 7)________, he worked through adversity and became the greatest basketball player yet.
Celine Dion came from 8)_______ beginnings in a rural French Canadian town in Canada. The youngest of fourteen children, her voice is internationally known on such soundtracks as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Titanic”.
Ronaldo is Brazil’s greatest 9)_____ in soccer since Pelé. He began his professional 10)______ in the season 90 — 91, playing for the Social Ramos Club. FIFA (FéderationInternationale de Football Association) voted him best player of the year in both 1996 and 1997. In 2002, he won the Golden Shoe Award of the FIFA World Cup with 8 goals scored.
2. Group discussion: Choose one celebrity and later tell us about his/her story. Students read the paragraph and then try to retell their story. Choose one of the pictures and then tell the class about his/her story. 3. Group discussion:how do they succeed?
4. Video watching: what leads to success?
Watch the video and think about the following question:
What leads to success?
5. Communicative Tasks
Students listen to the two dialogues, pay attention to the pronunciation and intonation.
Read the dialogues with partners and then make up their own dialogues. Step 3 Translating---Culture salon (alternative)(10mins) Quotes from famous People Homework:
? To finish the communicative tasks by referring to sample dialogues ? To preview the passage A
Part 2 Read and Explore (2 periods) Passage A: Death of a Dream
Teaching objective: To guide students to get some ideas about Bill Gates’ opinion towards education;
To lead them to comprehend the passage by answering questions and exercises
Teaching content: Passage reading and question answering. Step 1 Pre- reading Tasks (30 mins)
1. Greetings and a brief revision (pair work or group work)
Ask one or two pairs (groups) to act out their own dialogues 2. Warm up activity: Do you know them?
What’s in common among them? Drop-out celebrities
Why did they drop out of college?
Does education count? What do we get from education?
Do you want to pursue graduate study after you get your BA or BS? Why? Step 2 While- reading Tasks (60 mins) 1. Fast reading:
Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Bill Gates? What do you know about him? 2. What do you think of school education?
3. Do you want to pursue graduate study after you get your BA or BS? Explain 4. Why do many students write to Gates every year? 5. Why do some parents write to Gates?
6. What does Gates think of dropping out of school?
7. Which university did Gates go to? Did he graduate with a degree?
8. Many students choose to work for a while before going to a university. What do you think of this?
Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
___ 1 By “education counts”, Gates means that education is important to everyone.
___ 2 From the passage we know that Gates dropped out of college because he
didn’t do well.
___ 3 Gates tells us that it is easier to get a job with a college diploma than without one.
___ 4 According to Gates, one learns better by self-study.
___ 5 It can be inferred from the passage that it’s fine to become deeply interested in one
specific area.
2. Second reading --- Structure of the Text
Based on the passage, finish the table
Assignments:
? To learn the language points;
? To finish the exercises 3-8 in Language Focus.
Part 3 Read and Explore (2 periods) Language points Study (2 Periods)
Ask students to share their information on key words and phrases with each other, invite them to analyze language points one by one, instruct them if they’re wrong. Step 1 Key language points: 1. Count: be of value/importance
? We have only a few bullets left, so make each one count. ? Her opinion counts because of her experience.
2. claim: say that (sth.) is true or is a fact without having any proof
? She claims that she is related to the Queen. She claims to be related to the Queen. Jean
大学体验英语综合教程2 unit-5-way-to-success 教案
