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2019人教版选择性必修四 五单元 拓展阅读1
Unit Five Workbook Reading and Writing
Does Practice Really Make Perfect?
阅读简案
Fast reading
What’s your opinion about the title?
Number each paragraph in order
Skim the passage and roghly divide it into two parts
What does each part mainly talk about?
part 1 (1-3)___________________________________
part 2 (4-7)__________________________________
A theory of Practice Makes Perfect
Other factors of becoming an expert
Intensive Reading
part 1
para 1 lead in the topic
para 2 _________________
para 3 _________________
Structure of part 1
What does each paragraph talk about?
para 1
para 2
para 3
Malcolm Gladwell’s theory of Practice Makes Perfect
Anders Ericsson’s “deliberate practice”
Cultural Notes
Malcolm Gladwell (1963- ) is a Canadian journalist and best-selling author who often writes articles and books which convey academic research to the general public. His most famous contribution to public discourse is the idea of“tipping points"- -the idea that a phenomenon (such as a disease) may continue at a low level for some time, slowly building in force, until suddenly it reaches a“tipping point” where it begins a rapid spread or increase. His books include Tipping Point, Blink, and
Outliers: The Story of Success.
Anders Ericsson (1947-2020) was a Swedish psychologist who was on the faculty of Florida State University in the USA. He is considered one of the foremost authorities in the field of human performance.
Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) was a worldwide bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell which looked at a number of famous people to determine how they became successful. In statistics,an outlier is a result of a poll or experiment that is outside the norms. Usually, outliers are ignored in statistics, as they are exceptional and say nothing about what would normally be expected. The idea of this book, on the other hand, is to study the outliers (i.e., people who are successful) and see why they are exceptional. While the book promin