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Understanding ideas
Unit 2
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What setbacks have you encountered in your life?
Family conflict
Learning pressure
No friend
out of shape
2
Can you guess the people
who have suffered setbacks
Who is he/she?
1. He was born in a poor family and was often beaten by his father.
2. He has a gift for music.
3. He is deaf in middle age and can only feel music by the vibration of the floor.
4. He was a great German composer.
Beethoven
Bach
Beethoven
Who is he/she?
1. He has only three years of schooling
2. His research was derided as "meaningless
3. He made more than 1,300 inventions in his lifetime
4. He was an American inventor.
Edison
Tesla
Edison
Who is he/she?
1. She is a single mother
2. . In winter, she can only go to the coffee shop to live by heating.
3. Her work was rejected 12 times.
4. She is the author of the Harry Potter series
j. K. Rowling
Zhang Ailing
j. K. Rowling
Who is he/she?
1. He was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life
2. Only three of his fingers can move
3. . He presented the theory of “black hole radiation” to the world.
4. He is a great physicist
Hawking
Einstein
Hawking
Who is he/she?
1. He was born in poverty,
2. He failed in the election many times.
3. He was shot by a murderer because of the abolition of black slavery
4. He is considered the greatest president of the United States
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Skim and match each paragraph with its main idea.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
How the Bronte sisters succeeded.
Perseverance is the key to success.
How J. K. Rowling succeeded.
A lot of successful writers previously faced rejections.
How J. D. Salinger succeeded.
While-reading
Skim and match each paragraph with its main idea.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
How the Bronte sisters succeeded.
Perseverance is the key to success.
How J. K. Rowling succeeded.
A lot of successful writers previously faced rejections.
How J. D. Salinger succeeded.
While-reading
Scan para 1 and finish the mind map.
"We regret to inform you..." These are the words that every writer dreads receiving, but words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your life's work, yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection.
While-reading
Scan para 1 and finish the mind map.
the writer
Hard work
spent years giving up weekends and free time to write life's work
Response after rejection
hearts sinking
Conclusion
success rarely happens overnight
Proof method
examples of highly successful writers
While-reading
Introduction:
Example 1
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Example 2
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Example 3
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
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A lot of successful writers have previously faced rejection.
Scan para 2 and finish the mind map.
Take for example J.K.Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it meant she now had something in common with her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received comments from publishers along the lines of "too difficult for children", "too long", "Children would not be interested in it". Nevertheless, she persevered. "I wasn't going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen," she later posted. After a total of twelve rejecions, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global sucecss, with over 400 millon books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages.
While-reading
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter
She was told that his book was too difficult and too long for children and it was rejected twelve times by publishers.
Harry Potter became a global success.
Scan para 2 and finish the mind map.
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Scan para 3 and finish the mind map.
All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection. J.D.Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works published. "We feel that we don't know the central character well enough" was the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J.D. Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually published, the book became an immediate best-seller and went on to sell millions and millons of copies.
While-reading
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
J.D. Salinger
The Cacther in the Rye
He received criticism and rejections from several publishers
The Catcher in the Rye became an immediate best-seller after it was published.
Scan para 3 and finish the mind map.
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Scan para 3 and answer the question.
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How did J.D. Salinger show perseverance during his writing process?
He worked on his novel during his army service.
Scan para 4 and finish the mind map.
Perhaps the oveall prize for perseverance should go to three sisters from Victorian England who dreamt of seeing their words in print. This, however, was a time when women were not encouraged to become writers. As the then Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, wrote to one of them:"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." Nevertheless the sisters didn't stop trying. Their response was to write a book of poems under male names. Even when the book sold only two copies, the sisters still didn't give up. They started writing novels, and today Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Emily Bront's Watbering Heights and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey are regarded as classics of world literature. In fact, it's within the pages of Jane Eyre that we can find these words: "I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends...
While-reading
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Writer:
Best Known for:
Experience of rejection:
Eventual outcome:
Bronte sisters
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey
Women were not encouraged to become writers at that time
Their book of poems which they wrote under male names sold only two copies.
Their novels are regarded as classics of world literature.
Scan para 4 and finish the mind map.
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Scan para 4 and answer the question..
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Why might the author have included Robert Southey’s
letter to one of the Bronte sisters?
To show the barriers women writers faced.
Scan para 5 and summarize Formula for success.
So ,it seems that talent alone isn't enough to guarantee success. While a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key. Keep trying and eventually you will read the words "We are delighted to inform you..."
success
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talent
luck
Persev-erance
While-reading
Choose another suitable title for the passage and give reasons.
Post-reading
Life Is Hard for Female Writers
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
Never Give Up on Your Dreams
Successful Writers
Group work:
Post-reading
Who do you know is not afraid of setbacks and keeps working hard?
Important phrases:
后悔做某事
regret to do
举个例子
有..共同的
把...贴在...上
像...样的话
拒绝
总共
扮演一个角色
take for example
have...in common with
stick on
along the lines of
turn down
a total of
play a part
Summary
To retell the passage in you own words within 80 words.
Tips:
1. to try to organise your text just like a grammar filling ;
2. to use the words and expressions from the text.
Summary
Homework:
To retell the passage in you own words within 80 words.
Tips:
1. to try to organise your text just like a grammar filling ;
2. to use the words and expressions from the text.
Finally, let Ms. Rowling give you her life advice.
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