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Unit
PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT
1
Period 3 Using Language 2
--- reading for writing
Try to become not a man of success,
but try rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
1. According to the picture and title, what’s the purpose of this text?
to introduce Albert Einstein
2. What do you know and expect to know about Einstein?
❆Task of today: learn to write a text to introduce someone you admire by learning from this text.
Lead in
achievement
appearance
personality
Reading for structure
Skim the text and finish tasks
1. What kind of text is it?
A. argumentation 议论文 B. exposition 说明文
C. biography 传记 D. narration 记叙文
2. Read and sum up the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1:
Para 2:
Para 3:
Para 4:
Para 5:
Para 6:
His great contributions and personalities
His early life and education
His work experience and achievements
His middle-life crisis
His appearance and Stories showing his personalities
Einstein’s death
Pay attention to the structure.
Stating the
person you
admire
Describing
his/her appearance and
personalities
by giving
examples
Summing up
your feelings
about him/her
Introduction
Body
Ending
Born in Germany
1879
1896
1955
1933
Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland
1895
Entered university
Graduated from university
1900
Took a job
as a clerk in the Swiss patent office
1902
1905
Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university
1909
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
1922
Had to flee
Germany
Died in the United States
Read the text and complete the timeline.
Make a timeline
Making a timeline that shows when different events happened can help you understand how the events are connected to each other.
Earned a doctorate in physics
on + 天 + in+ 年
when he/she was ... years old,
After doing sth for ... year(s),
After ... year(s) of doing sth,
Following this/ that, 接着
.
Underline the phrases about time and learn the expressions