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Unit 2 Onwards and upwards
Starting out
Activity 1
Who are the people mentioned in the video and what are their achievements?
What made them successful?
Note down the qualities that made them successful.
Activity 1
Who are the people mentioned in the video and what are their achievements?
• Stephen Hawking was one of the world's leading scientists. His book ______________________________was published in 1988, which became a best-seller.
Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela and Xu Beihong.
A Brief History of Time
An Homage to Stephen Hawking
A Film Recommendation about
Stephen Hawking
• Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa, who fought passionately against the all-white government's system of________________________. In 1993 he was awarded the _____________________.
• Xu Beihong was a Chinese artist who created a new form of national art that______________ traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western composition to reflect a modern China.
racial separation
Nobel Peace Prize
combined
Activity 1
2. What made them successful?
Their personal qualities of
perseverance,
willpower,
determination,
patience,
leadership,
talent
and hard work
made them successful.
Edgar Albert Guest ( 1881-1959)
Birth place: Birmingham, England
Nationality:American(Detroit, Michigan.)
Pen name: Eddie Guest
Occupation: Poet (11000poems)
Style: Sentimental, Optimistic
Honor:
Poet Laureate[ˈlɒriət] 桂冠诗人 of Michigan
Activity 2
What is the key message of the poem?
Which of life's difficulties are mentioned in the poem?
What is your understanding of the line “Sucess is failure turned inside out”?
Activity 2
What is the key message of the poem?
The poem is all about perseverance, determination and willpower. Never give up especially when things go wrong. It reminds us that there are elements of success within every failure, so we mustn’t quit whatever difficulties we may encounter in life.
Activity 2
2. Which of life's difficulties are mentioned in the poem? What is your understanding of the line “Sucess is failure turned inside out”?
Things sometimes go wrong; the road seems all uphill; the funds are low and the debts are high. Within each failure are lessons that must be learnt in order to succeed. On the road to success, you have to experience failure first. In other words, “failure is the mother of success”.
Try to translate this poem into chinese.
trudge[trʌdʒ]:
If you trudge somewhere, you walk there slowly and with heavy steps, especially because you are tired or unhappy.
queer[kwɪə(r)]: strange;
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.
请别放弃
情势时而不顺,
乃意中之事,
举步维艰向上时,
口袋空空,债台高筑时,
想要微笑却得叹息时,
忧虑重重压住时,
必要之时请休息,
但你别放弃.
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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' give up though the pace seems slow-
You may sueceed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out-
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell just how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when yout're hardest hit-
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
反转之间定成败
疑云后面是曙光
距离成功多近
你却从来不自知
也许只在咫尺,
也许遥不可及;
即使遭到最重击,
也要坚持不放弃
情况变得再糟糕
也要挺住不放弃
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