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1. 教学反馈簿 http://tronest.ycool.com 2009年全国大学生英语竞赛报名 背诵、复述、笔记、补课

2. Text A It’s Never Too Late for Success Unit 10 For many people, success does not come at an early age. The author tells us a few stories about some famous people and shows us that it’s never too late for success.

3. It’s Never Too Late for Success • Useful expressions • Text interpretation • Word family • Sentence structure • Translation • Homework

4. Useful expressions • 名利 • 遵守承诺 • 临床症状 • 陷入绝望 • inspire by e.g. • 个性形成时期 • Talent-spotter • Wealth and fame • Keep one’s promise • Clinical symptom • Fall into despair • 身体力行 • Formative years • 星探

5. Useful expressions • 微弱的灯光 • (坏)臭蛋 • 中医 • 神学院 • Country of origin • 与…形成对比 • 摇篮曲，催眠曲 • Faint light • Addled eggs • Traditional … … • Divinity college • 原产国 • Contrast with … • Cradle songs

6. Useful expressions • Starve for • 有远见的领导 • 对…入迷 • 辞去一份工作 • Take advantage of • Be given to • Well off • 渴望，急需 • A leader of vision • Be fascinated with • Quit a job • 利用 • 喜欢 • 富裕的，处境好的

7. Text interpretation • Warm-up questions • What criteria do you use to judge whether a person is successful or not? • What are the most important factors that contribute to success? • Do you think you are going to be successful in your future career?

8. Text interpretation • Answer the questions Speaking Activities 3&4 on p.140 • What type is the text generally? A. narration B. exposition C. description D. argumentation 记叙文 a movie 说明文 a lecture 描述文 a picture 议论文 a debate

9. Text interpretation • What message does the narrator try to convey to us? • It’s never too late for success. • The text is mainly in the pattern. A. general-specific B. chronological C. spatial D. compare-contrast • Let hear more about some famous people. 总分 时间 空间 比较-对比

10. Text interpretation • Anecdotes of famous people No. Name Anecdotes 1 Mozart Played the piano at midnight 2 Peter Never showed talent until 22 3 Pasteur Did nothing but draw and fish 4 Wright Brilliant at engineering in early teens Brain “addled” 5 Edison Fermi Read enough mathematics at 17 6

11. Text interpretation • Anecdotes of famous people No. Name Anecdotes 7 Schweitzer Wavered until 30 8 Darwin Early life a mess 9 Hoover Expert at administration 10 Truman Tried a dozen jobs before presidency 11 Faulkner Quit school in the 5th grade 12 Moses Never sold a painting till 80

12. Text interpretation • What can we learn from those famous people in this text? • It’s never too late for success. • Never say die. • Success doesn’t come easy. • We are not fired (inspired) yet. • Better late than never. • More …

13. Text interpretation • …the truth is that many of our greatest figures were given to daydreaming… • …they showed no promise of being… • A man they don’t tell you about • If you take piano lessons and you don’t feel like practicing… • But the point is your parents would not …showed any interest in music in his formative years. • In fact he never showed talent in any directionwhatever. • It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music.

14. Text interpretation • The … parents were in despair because Louis did nothing but draw pictures… • Pasteur was 20 years old before he became even faintly interested in science. • So it goes. • You have the W brothers, who were brilliant at … • Charles Darwin’s early life was a mess. • You care fornothing but shooting dogs… • You will a disgrace to yourself … • H Hoover must have learned administration in the cradle.

15. Text interpretation • Turned down by the West Point, Truman tried… • Great writers are supposed to be born, not made. • You have a small army of child prodigies who were graduated from college… • So who’s to say what about youth? • Any of you boy or girl who knows he wants to do in life is probably the better off for it. • He has that one special advantage over the greatest man alive — time. • If you don’t think time counts, look at Grandma Moses.

16. Word family • Well-known, reputation, gift, intelligence, indecisive, resolute, determined, prospect, promising, hopeless, desperate, inspiration, justice, justify, formation, informal, talented, passionate, compassion, painting, messy, confused, physician, hesitate, hesitant, disgraceful, divine, scarcely, therefore, flight, gather, revolution, biologist, original, compare, administrator, starvation, hunger, television, invisible, pharmacy, attractive, charming, exceptional, resign, sophomore, unordinary, unusual, employ, disadvantageous. • More words on pp 141-2

17. Sentence structure • It is/was … that/who … • It wasnot until he was 22that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music. Do the exercise on p.142

18. Translation • Parents should pay special attention to their children during their formative years and watch forsymptoms of psychological problems. • Geniuses usually have a great passion for things they’re interested in. • He has no idea that Jane is his biological sister; only her name sounds faintlyfamiliar to him.

19. Translation • Seeing the rice crops dying in the dry sun, the peasants could do nothing but sigh. • Ever since his boss turned down his request for a long vocation, Jack has been thinking about quitting his job. • I don’t care for soccer, and today’s no exception. So I don’t feel like going to watch the game with you.

20. Homework • Other exercises • Recitation • Text B • Fast reading • Review • Preview • Dictation Don’t forget your plan & promise.