Unit 2 Onwards and upwards Starting out & Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

外研选择性必修 第一册 Unit 2 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas (I) 1 2 To learn some great people’s achievements and their qualities, voice your own opinion on the poem To get the main idea and the structure of the passage, learn the perseverance of the three writers 学习目标 目标一：To learn some great people’s achievements and their qualities, voice your own opinion on the poem Activity 1: Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 Who are the people mentioned in the video and what are their achievements? They are Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela and Xu Beihong. Their achievements: Stephen Hawking was one of the world’s leading scientists. His book A Brief History of Time was published in 1988, which became a best-seller. Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa, who fought passionately against the all-white government’s system of racial separation. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Xu Beihong was a Chinese artist who created a new form of national art that combined traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western composition to reflect a modern China. 2 What made them successful? Their personal qualities of perseverance, willpower, determination, patience, leadership, talent and hard work made them successful. If you are faced with difficulties, failures, disabilities,..., what would you do? Activity 2: Listen and read the poem. Answer the questions. Don’t quit When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don’t give up though the pace seems slow— You may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out— The silver tint of the