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Unit 2: Onwards and Upwards
Stating out
1. What does the title “onwards and upwards” mean?
1) walk toward(s) the house
2) look forward(s); (look forward to …)
3) walk backward(s)
4) He can’t wait to drive homeward(s).
Everybody will be homeward bound. (要回家的)
5) downward(s); upward(s)
Onwards & upwards
positive
1. come on
2. keep on
3. carry on
4. cheer on
Starting out:
1. Who are mentioned?
2. What difficulty did
they meet?
3. How did they overcome
these difficulties?
(What made them successful?
1. Who are mentioned?
three famous man in history
(Steven Hawking, Nelson Mandela; Xu Beihong)
2. What difficulty did they meet?
1) Hawking: a disease affecting his brain and nerves.
2) Mandela: in prison / jail 27 years for fighting against racial separation.
3) Xu: a poor family; his father …
3. What made them successful?
1) Hawking: never give up; perseverance and willpower.
2) Mandela: fight against…; determination, patience and leadership
3) Xu: His early hardships and loss of his father became the basis of …
His struggle and study in Europe …
4. Their similar qualities in overcoming challenges
face hardship
fight (against) challenges
perseverance + willpower + hard work
move onwards and upwards
Useful expressions in the video
1. _____________ hardship (面对困难、艰辛时)
2. one of the _________ (lead) scientists
3. an intelligent and curious man
4. He _____________ a disease which affects his brain and nerves. (患病)
5. As his disease __________, … (随着疾病的变化)
6. __________ (死去)
7. ____________ extreme hardship (经历极端的艰苦)
8. fight___________ against racial separation (有激情地、热情地反对种族隔离)
9. his eventual ________ (释放)
10. ___________ and ____________ can overcome a challenge. (坚持与意志力)
11. achieve his local _____________ (获得当地的认可)
12. __________ a serious disease (逐渐患上)
in the face of
leading
suffered from
progressed
pass away
go through
passionately
release
Perseverance willpower
recognition
develop
Listen and read the poem, and answer …
1. What is the key message of the poem?
2. Which of life’s difficulties are mentioned in the poem?
3. What is your understanding of the line “Success is failure turned inside out”?
New vocabulary
1. What is the key message of the poem?
elements of success within failure:
perseverance, determination, willpower,
Don’t quit whatever difficulties you may
encounter in life.
2. Which of life’s difficulties are mentioned in the poem?
Things sometimes go wrong.
The road seems all uphill.
The funds are low.
The debts are high.
Care presses you down.
Life is full of twists and turns.
Failure turns about.
The pace seems slow.
Another blow is on the road.
3. Success is failure turned inside out. ?
1) There is a lesson inside
any failure.
2) draw / learn a lesson
3) Failure is the mother
of success.
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Make sense of a poem by reading and translating
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Read and translate …
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1. Don’t quit.
2. When things go wrong, …
3. go uphill
4. When the fund is low, …
5. When the debt is high, …
6. But you have to sigh.
7. When care is pressing you down.
8. Life is queer with its twists and turns.
9. Many a failure turns about.
10. stick out
11. The pace seems slow.
12. stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
13. It is when things seem worst that you must not quit.
1. Don’t quit. (give up …)
1) quit – quit / quitted – quit / quitted
2) quit – quitting – quitting
3) quit _________ (smoke)
4) I have decided to quit the city / company. ( )
2. When things go wrong, …
1) go crazy / wild (变得疯狂)
2) His hair has gone grey. (变得花白)
3) The milk goes sour easily. (变酸)
smoking = give up smoking (give up on sb.)
离开 离任
3. When the debt is high, …
1) ____ debt (负债 欠债)
2) fall / slip _____ debt
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4. But you have to sigh.
1) sigh ( ) ≠ sign ( )
in
into
叹气 签名
5. When care is pressing you down.
-- care
1) take (good) care of … ( )
2) care about … ( )
3) care for … ( )
4) health care ( )
5) care ( )
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-- press (v. )
pressure (n. )
pressing (adj. )
照顾 照看
在意 关心
照顾 照料; 喜欢
健康护理
忧虑 焦虑;关心; …
press the button
_______ pressure
给人压迫感的
紧急的 不容忽视的
under
6. Life is queer (strange / odd) with its twists and turns.
1) twist ( )
-- Don’t twist his arm.
-- The stream / river twists its way through the forest.
扭曲 弯曲 扭动 蜿蜒
7. Many a failure turns about.
1) many a student = ______________
= more than one student (单数形式,表复数意思)
many students
8. … turn about
-- An accident came about at the crossroads. (= ___________ )
-- His drunk driving brought about the crash. ( )
happen
让…发生
9. He might have won, had he stuck it out.
1) = If he had stuck it out, he would have won.
2) If you _____________ hard, you _____________ the test yesterday.
had worked
have passed
10. stick it / sth out (坚持下去 坚持到底)
1) stick -- _______ -- ________ (粘住,粘贴)
a sticker; ______ rice (糯米); …
be stuck in the traffic jam
(被困住 = be caught in the jam)
2) choose to stick _____ the fight when you’re hit hardest.
-- stick to traffic rules (坚持… 不违背…)
-- stick to your promise
stuck stuck
sticky
to
11. The pace seems slow. (速度 步速)
1) _______ pace with … (与…速度一致)
2) Don’t pace up and down there.
keep
12. It is when things seem worst that you must not quit.
-- It is / was … that …
1) It was when he took off his hat that I recognized him.
2) It was not until I returned home that Mom went to sleep.
3) It was in Chengdu that I found my first job.
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