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课件网) Unit 2 Lesson 2 Top Five Secrets of Success 新 课 导 入 Let’s talk Do you know the following people Yuan Long Ping Bill Gates Ma Yun J. K. Rowling Novak Djokovic What do you think are the secrets of their success 课 堂 学 习 Who do you think are successful people What do you think are the top secrets of success to be ambitious to be passionate to have a clear goal to keep trying ... Example: I think being ambitious in what you do is a top secret of success. You are going to listen to a talk called “Top Five Secrets of Success”. Before listening, predict the possible secrets of success for the representative figures listed in Activity4. 2 Pre-listening Listen and check your predictions. Then write down the five secrets you hear in the first column in Activity4. 3 2.3 1. Be passionate. 2. Be confident. 3. Work hard. 4. Set your goal high. 5. Keep trying. Listening 4 2.3 Listen again and complete the supporting facts along with the five figures’ achievements. When you finish, check with your partner. Secrets Representative figures Supporting facts Achievements 1. _____ Yuan Long Ping, the father of hybrid rice For more than 50 years, he has _____. His research has not only helped China find a way to remove hunger but also _____. Be passionate. devoted to his life to rice production. contributed to world peace and social progress. 2._____ Ma Yun, the founder of Alibaba ...everybody thought he was crazy. _____. Alibaba has not only become the biggest online sales company _____. 3._____ Bill Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft For about five years, when he was a teenager, _____. His hard work gave him a big advantage over other people and _____. Be confident. Work hard. But he was confident that this company would be successful. he spent 10,000 hours working on a basic computer. in the world but it changes people’s shopping habits as well. he became one of the founders of Microsoft by the age of 20. 4._____ Novak Djokovic, one of the best tennis players At the age of five, Novak Djokovic decided he didn’t want to be _____. Djokovic, aged 24, won _____. 5._____ J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter J. K. Rowling didn’t listen to the negative comments _____. ...for the last ten years, J. K. Rowling has been the author of _____. Set your goal high. Keep trying. just a good tennis player, he wanted to be the best tennis player in the world. three major world championships and became the World Number One. from the twelve publishers who rejected her books. the most famous children’s books in the world. Group Work. Each member chooses one successful person to introduce to other members based on the notes in Activity 4. 5 Yuan Long Ping Ma Yun Bill Gates Novak Djokovic J. K. Rowling Post-listening 6 Complete the sentences using the correct form of the words and phrase given below. reject / hunger / minimum / devote...to / influential / publisher / production / championship 1. He is on ... ...
