Unit 2 Success Reading Club & Check Your Progress 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Unit 2 Reading Clubs & Check Your Progress 新 课 导 入 Do you know him and his story? 课 堂 学 习 ◆ Reading Club 1 Contribution and Sacrifice General Understanding 1 Read the text. Answer the question. Why did Huang Danian return to China in 2008? What were his achievements after he came back to China? He felt he needed to contribute to his country after living abroad for many years. Huang developed advanced cameras that can see through the Earth’s crust so that it can be analysed without having to dig into it. He set up a state-of-the-art lab. This enabled China’s deep earth exploration technology into a world-leading position. It also led to China’s lunar probe being landed on the moon. Critical Thinking 2 Group Work. How do you understand “... to celebrate a life that burned so bright, but was so short”? Huang Danian did not live long but he made major advance in his area of expertise. He had a life with great success and achievements. Online Search Find more information about Huang Danian online to support your explanation and share it in your group. ◆ Reading Club 2 The Importance of Failure J. K. Rowling Bill Gates Steve Jobs Vera Wang Ang Lee What do you know about these people? General Understanding 1 What did J. K. Rowling learn from her failures? Failure taught her things about herself that she could have learnt no other way. She discovered that she had a strong will, and more discipline that she had expected. 2 What do the people in the text have in common? At tough moments in their lives, they showed grit. 3 What is “grit” and why is it important? It is a passion for something and the determination to work hard and to stick with it. It’s very easy to give up when we hit setbacks, but people with grit keep going. Critical Thinking How do you understand Steve Job’s words “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”? 4 I think that Steve Jobs felt that being successful was a huge weight on his shoulders. There was