内容正文:
The Importance of Failure
汇报人: 李晶莹
日期: 2025-11-21
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Stepping Stones to Success
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目 录
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Introduction to the lesson
Text Analysis Techniques
Critical Thinking
Transformation and application
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Conclusion and Takeaways
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Introduction to this class
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Video Introduction
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Video Introduction
--Interactive Question
What's the common secret behind their success?
Experience of failure
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Text Analysis-Reading
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J.K. Rowling
author of Harry Potter
Steve Jobs
late Apple CEO
Bill Gates
entrepreneur
J.K. Rowling
author of Harry Potter
Steve Jobs
late Apple CEO
Bill Gates
businessman
Vera Wang
fashion designer
Ang Lee
director
Activity 1 Activate and Share
2. Who are mentioned in the text? What are their jobs?
We can find at the beginning of paragraph that many names are mentioned. They are J.K.Rowling, Author of Harry Potter; Steve Jobs, late Apple CEO of Apple(by saying “late”, it means he has passed away); Bill Gates
Entrepreneur, founder of Microsoft.
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Activity 2 Read and explore the structure
introduction
benefits/
importance
of failure
J.K. Rowling
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Vera Wang
Ang Lee
grit
how to become gritter
What are their failure and benefits of failure ?
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Here is the mind map that I draw.
At first, the author introduced J.K Rowling’s speech “The Benefits of Failure” to lead in to the topic.
Then the author told stories of Five celebrities: J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Vera Wang and Ang Lee, who all experienced failure before success. All these individuals share something in common: At tough moments in their lives, they showed grit.
“Grit” means 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 who have grit keep going.
At last, the author taught us how to become “gritter”. If we can learn how to manage failure, we'll learn how to succeed. By working through a series of failures, we're better prepared for the bigger challenges we'll face in the adult world: We'll have the resilience we need to keep going. We'll have true grit.
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Match the description with the person who experienced it.
His first company was called Traf-O-Data, but unfortunately, its product didn’t work.
She didn’t make the Olympic team. She joined Vogue as an assistant editor, but was crushed.
He failed the exam twice. His plays were rejected by more than 30 companies within 2 weeks.
Her first novel was rejected by 12 publishers before it was finally published.
He was fired from the company he had co- founded. He felt despair and rejection.
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Activity 3 Careful- Reading
Activity 4: further-reading for deeper understanding
How did theses figures(人物) manage/treat failure?
What he/she got from failures?
J.K. Rowling
“Failure taught me things about myself that I could
have learnt no other way. I discovered that I had a
strong will, and more discipline than I had experience.”
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Activity 4: further-reading for deeper understanding
Steve Jobs
“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”
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Activity 4: further-reading for deeper understanding
His first company was called Traf-O-Data ,but it’s product didn’t work.
What Gates learnt from this experience helped lay the groundwork for the global success that is now Micosoft.
He didn’t make the same mistake twice.
Bill Gates
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Activity 4: further-reading for deeper understanding
Find her passion and try to do her best.
skater editor designer
built a global fashion empire
“I discovered something else that I loved this much.”
“If you love something, you are gonna try to do your best.”
“The better you get at something, the more you’ll love it.”
Vera Wang
This setback prompted her to set up her own bridal fashion label. The rest is history.
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Activity 4: further-reading for deeper understanding
Twice falling the college entrance examination…
All his efforts finally paid off.
Ang Lee
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Critical Thinking
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1. What’s the common feature of the people mentioned in the text?
A. They all became successful immediately without any setbacks.
B. They never experienced failure and always succeeded.
C. They faced failures but showed grit and achieved success finally.
D. They gave up easily when encountering difficulties.
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2. Which explains “grit” and its importance correctly?
A. “Grit” means giving up quickly when facing failure, and it helps avoid more losses.
B. “Grit” is a passion for something plus the determination to work hard and persevere, and it’s important because it helps overcome setbacks to succeed.
C. “Grit” refers to ignoring failures and continuing blindly, and it ensures success every time.
D. “Grit” is about complaining about failures, and it’s important as it makes people feel better
Critical Thinking(2)
1. How do you understand Steve Jobs’ words “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”?
Steve Jobs once achieved great success but was then fired from the company he co - founded. After that, the “heaviness” of maintaining success (like huge responsibilities and external expectations) was gone. Instead, he felt “light” as a beginner, free from past burdens. This new state let him explore freely, regain creativity, and create more amazing things (like new Apple products). So, his words show that failure can free us from success - related pressures, helping us start anew with fresh energy.
翻译:成功的沉重被再次成为创业者的轻松所取代
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Transformation and application
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Activity 5: Sharing our own stories of failure
The following is an account of my personal experience.
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The Museum of Failing Forward
Group-work
Make a poster to show your own stories of failure and then build our own museum of failure .
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The Museum of Failing Forward
Group-work
The Museum of Failing Forward
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Conclusion and Takeaways
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The benefit of failure
The importance of Failure
The Significance of Failure
Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life.
It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.
Failure doesn’t mean you should give up. It does mean you must try harder.
Failure doesn’t mean you will never make it.
It does mean it will take a little longer.
Imitation writing
Embrace it. Learn from it. Grow through it.
Write a reflection:
“A Failure That Shaped Me.”
Homework
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