内容正文:
TOP FIVE SECRETS
OF SUCCESS
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Who is she?
What is her achievement?
What do you think are her secrets of success?
Tu Youyou
Please have a 5-minute discussion in group of 4.
Activity 1
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Predicting
Before listening, predict the possible secrets of success for
the people listed in Exercise 3.
Secrets Examples and achievements
1 Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice
2 Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba
3 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
4 Novak Djokovic, tennis world champion
5 J.K. Rowling, writer of children’s books
To be ambitious
To have a clear goal
To be passionate
To keep trying
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Activity 1
Listen to the talk and check your predictions.
Note down the top five secrets in the left column.
(Notice: pay attention to the first sentence of each paragraph.)
Secrets Examples and achievements
1 Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice
2 Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba
3 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
4 Novak Djokovic, tennis world champion
5 J.K. Rowling, writer of children’s books
Be passionate about what you do.
Be confident.
Work hard.
Set your goals high.
Keep trying.
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Activity 2
Listen again. Write down the facts supporting the secrets in the right column.
Secrets Examples and achievements Facts supporting the secret
1 Be passionate about what you do. Yuan Longping, father of hybrid rice
2 Be confident. Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba
3 Work hard.
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
4 Set your goals high. Novak Djokovic, tennis world champion
5 Keep trying.
J.K. Rowling, writer of children’s books
For more than 50 years, he has devoted his life to rice production.
He was confident that this company would be successful.
For about five years, when he was a teenager, he spent 10000 hours working on a basic computer.
At the age of five, Nok Djokovic decided he didn't want to be just a good tennis player, he wanted to be the best tennis player in the world.
J.k. Rowling didn't listen to the negaive comments from the twelve publishers who rejevted her book, for two years, she tried to get them published.
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Listen again & Answer the questions.
What is Yuan Longping famous for? Why is he considered passionate?
2. When Ma Yun had the idea od quitting his job as a college teacher and staring up an online shopping company, what did other people think of him? Did he give up his idea? Why?
Other people thought he was crazy.
No, he didn't. Because he was confident that this company would be successful.
He is famous for agriculture, he is the father of hybrid rice.
Because for more than 50 years, he has devoted his life to rice production.
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Listen again & Answer the questions.
3. How long had Bill Gates worked on a basic computer before he founded Microsoft?
4. What did Djokovic want to be when he was five?
5. How many publilshers had refused J.k. Rowling before Harry Potter was published?
He wanted to be the best tennis player in the world.
12.
For 10000 hours.
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From this listening material:
Who inspires you the most?
Why?
Please have a 5-minute discussion in group of 4.
DISCUSSION
If you are going to interview one of the five successful person,
what questions are you going to ask them?
Please have a 4-minute discussion in group of 4.
Here comes an interview!
How to start and end an interview?
Greeting
Self-introduction
……
“Thank you very much for your time!”
……
In your group, each student takes turns to play any one of the 5 characters involved in the listening material.
Other three group members interview him/her.
Let’s have an interview!
You have 5 minutes to have your interview!
HOMEWORK
Your friend Lily failed in the mid-term exam. She felt very depressed and did not know what to do.
Please write a letter to help her and tell her how to be successful (the secrets of success) in about 100 words.
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