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Unit 2 Onwards and upwards (Start out)
Name: Class:
Step 1 Lead-in
Q1.Do you want to become onwards and upwards?
Q2.What qualities do we need if we want to become onwards and upwards?
Step 2 Listening
Q1. Who are the people mentioned in the tape and what are their achievements?
The first person: ___________
He was one of the world's leading__________. His book A Brief History of Time was published in 1988, which became a _________.
The second person: ___________
He was the first _______________of South Africa,
who fought passionately against the ___________ government's system of ________separation. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel ________Prize.
The third person: ___________
He was a Chinese _______who created a new form of _______art that combined traditional Chinese _______ techniques with Western ___________ to reflect a modern China.
Q2.What made them successful?
1. Hawking's success has shown that_____________and_____________ can overcome even the greatest challenges.
2. He became the first black president of South Africa, proving that the qualities of _____________,_____________ and_____________ can lead to great things.
3. His _____________and _____________ led to the development of a new style of Chinese painting and an approach to art.
Step 3 Listen and read a poem
Answer the questions.
1 What is the key message of the poem?
2 Which of life’s difficulties are mentioned in the poem? What is your understanding of the line “Success is failure turned inside out”?
3 Do you like the poem? Give your reasons.
Step 4 Learn something about poems
Poem ①Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Poem②Thoughts on a Tranquil Night
Before my bed a pool of light
O can it be frost on the ground?
Looking up, I find the moon bright;
Bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned.
Poem③Refreshing and cool,
love is a sweet summer rain
that washes the world.
NOTES:
basic
Knowledge
about poems