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课件网) Unit PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT 1 Period 3 Using Language 2 -- reading for writing Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein 1. According to the picture and title, what’s the purpose of this text to introduce Albert Einstein 2. What do you know and expect to know about Einstein Task of today: learn to write a text to introduce someone you admire by learning from this text. Lead in achievement appearance personality Reading for structure Skim the text and finish tasks 1. What kind of text is it A. argumentation 议论文 B. exposition 说明文 C. biography 传记 D. narration 记叙文 2. Read and sum up the main idea of each paragraph. Para 1: Para 2: Para 3: Para 4: Para 5: Para 6: His great contributions and personalities His early life and education His work experience and achievements His middle-life crisis His appearance and Stories showing his personalities Einstein’s death Pay attention to the structure. Stating the person you admire Describing his/her appearance and personalities by giving examples Summing up your feelings about him/her Introduction Body Ending Born in Germany 1879 1896 1955 1933 Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland 1895 Entered university Graduated from university 1900 Took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office 1902 1905 Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university 1909 Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics 1922 Had to flee Germany Died in the United States Read the text and complete the timeline. Make a timeline Making a timeline that shows when different events happened can help you understand how the events are connected to each other. Earned a doctorate in physics on + 天 + in+ 年 when he/she was ... years old, After doing sth for ... year(s), After ... year(s) of doing sth, Following this/ that, 接着 . Underline the phrases about time and learn the expressions Read para 5 and find out what else the writer introduced besides life experiences appearance personality Conclude: Apart from life experiences, it’s a good idea to describe the figure’s appearance and to reflect his/her personality by some funny stories, descriptive words and quotes. What rhetorical devices(修辞手法) are used in the passage Simile(明喻) Metaphor(隐喻) Rhetorical question(设问) Personification(拟人) Quote(引用) Repetition(重复) Analogy(类比) Euphemism(委婉语) phrases rhetorical device as the new Isaac Newton (from para3) the doors of academic institutions (from para4) as though he had just received an electric shock (from para5) (hair) stood on end (from para5) passed away (from para6) Analogy(类比) Metaphor(隐喻) Simile(明喻) Personification(拟人) Euphemism(委婉语) Simile(明喻) Metaphor(隐喻) Rhetorical question(设问) Quote(引用) Repetition(重复) Analogy(类比) Euphemism(委婉语) Personification(拟人) Analogy(类比) Metaphor(隐喻) Simile(明喻) Personification(拟人) Euphemism(委婉语) ... ...
