实用英语unit-5
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3. How should students make the best use of high school and college education?
They should make use of chances offered by high school and college to learn broadly and cooperatively.
Text-related Information
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
Unit 5: Text A
• Text-related Information • Intensive Study
Text-related Information
Ø Bill Gates and Microsoft
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft had revenues of US$32.19 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2003, and employs more than 55 000 people in 85 countries and regions.
Practical English, Book II
Unit 5 Part A
My Advice to Students: Get a Sound, Broad Education
请别叫我 大学辍学生
Unit 5: Part A
• Text A • Practice
Global-reading
Task 3 Read the passage for the third time(9’) Get main idea of Text A &a rough idea about
the structure
Main idea Get a sound, broad education “Get the best education you can.”
Text-related Information
Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
2. Why do some students in Ohio not care much about getting a good education?
They think that the writer didn’t finish high school, yet still is very successful in his career, so they believe that a good education is not needed to attain success.
themselves with, according to the writer?
High school students should learn a wide range of subjects, to learn to cooperate with others, and to get good grades that will help them to receive a good college education.
Reading Comprehension
4. How should students strike a balance between having wide interests and choosing a specialty?
It is OK for students to develop a special interest, but it should not be done at the expense of learning broadly. 5. What should high school students concern
College Life Cultivating my ability of communication
Broadening my interests
Question:
Would you consider dropping out of college when you face a lifetime opportunity? Why or why not?
about education? 2.Why do some students in Ohio not care much
about getting a good education? 3.How should students make the best use of high
school and college education? 4.How should students strike a balance between
1. What advice does the writer give to students about education?
Get the best education one can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn.
having wide interests and choosing a specialty? 5.What should high school students concern
themselves with, according to the writer?
Reading Comprehension
Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.
Task 1 Read the passage for the first time(5’) Exercise 2 & 3 on page 106 and 107(4’)
Task 2 Group Discussion (9’)
Read the passage again
Find out the answers to the following questions. 1.What advice does the writer give to students
实用英语unit-5
Warming up
Questions & Pair Work: --- What should we do to make the best use of college
education? --- What do you value most during your years at
Text-related Information
Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of more than $6.8 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year.
Text-related Information
In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and . Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks.
college? Why?
Answers
Focus on my study all the time
Broaden my interests in other fields
Take part in more activities on campus
Answers
Studying
Making friends
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.
They should make use of chances offered by high school and college to learn broadly and cooperatively.
Text-related Information
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
Unit 5: Text A
• Text-related Information • Intensive Study
Text-related Information
Ø Bill Gates and Microsoft
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft had revenues of US$32.19 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2003, and employs more than 55 000 people in 85 countries and regions.
Practical English, Book II
Unit 5 Part A
My Advice to Students: Get a Sound, Broad Education
请别叫我 大学辍学生
Unit 5: Part A
• Text A • Practice
Global-reading
Task 3 Read the passage for the third time(9’) Get main idea of Text A &a rough idea about
the structure
Main idea Get a sound, broad education “Get the best education you can.”
Text-related Information
Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
2. Why do some students in Ohio not care much about getting a good education?
They think that the writer didn’t finish high school, yet still is very successful in his career, so they believe that a good education is not needed to attain success.
themselves with, according to the writer?
High school students should learn a wide range of subjects, to learn to cooperate with others, and to get good grades that will help them to receive a good college education.
Reading Comprehension
4. How should students strike a balance between having wide interests and choosing a specialty?
It is OK for students to develop a special interest, but it should not be done at the expense of learning broadly. 5. What should high school students concern
College Life Cultivating my ability of communication
Broadening my interests
Question:
Would you consider dropping out of college when you face a lifetime opportunity? Why or why not?
about education? 2.Why do some students in Ohio not care much
about getting a good education? 3.How should students make the best use of high
school and college education? 4.How should students strike a balance between
1. What advice does the writer give to students about education?
Get the best education one can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn.
having wide interests and choosing a specialty? 5.What should high school students concern
themselves with, according to the writer?
Reading Comprehension
Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.
Task 1 Read the passage for the first time(5’) Exercise 2 & 3 on page 106 and 107(4’)
Task 2 Group Discussion (9’)
Read the passage again
Find out the answers to the following questions. 1.What advice does the writer give to students
实用英语unit-5
Warming up
Questions & Pair Work: --- What should we do to make the best use of college
education? --- What do you value most during your years at
Text-related Information
Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of more than $6.8 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year.
Text-related Information
In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and . Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks.
college? Why?
Answers
Focus on my study all the time
Broaden my interests in other fields
Take part in more activities on campus
Answers
Studying
Making friends
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.