大学体验英语综合教程2unit-5-way-to-success教案

Unit Five Ways to Success

Part one: Listen and Talk : (2 periods)

Teaching objective:

To help students be familiar with successful celebrities;

To take listening/watching exercises concerning the topic of being successful;

To master the skills of giving feedback to partners in the speaking area; To develop students’ fluency skills when they do the communicative task Teaching content:

What success means to you

Listening

What you know about these celebrities and how they succeed

Watching: what leads to success

Talking

Translating ---culture salon

Step 1: (25minutes)

1. Guess: tell who they are

Teacher shows the pictures and students guess who they are.

Ask students to find at least one common point among these people. 2. Discuss: why they are famous/successful

Ask students: if success equals money or power or social status, yes or no? and why?

Why are these people famous or successful?

Show some pictures and ask students what they think about them.

3. Group discussion: what does success mean to you?

Step 2 Listening & Talking (55 minutes)

1. Listening

Success can be reached in different ways by people in different

careers. Bill Gates began at age 13 to 1)_______ computers. His vision for personal computing has been central to the success of Microsoft Corporation, the company he 2)_______ with his childhood friend in 1975.

The former CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, is a business legend. A famous quote by Mr. Welch is, “Change before you have to.”

He believes in leading by example and 3)__________ his employees to do their best every day. Michael Jordan said, “I accept 4)______, but I can’t accept not trying.” He is one of the best athletes to ever play team sports. His great smile, athletic 5)___________, and pleasant personality have made him one of the most famous 6)_______ in the world.

Michael Jordan spent a lot of time playing basketball as a child but in senior middle school he was taken off the team. Instead of

7)________, he worked through adversity and became the greatest

basketball player yet.

Celine Dion came from 8)_______ beginnings in a rural French Canadian town in Canada. The youngest of fourteen children, her voice is internationally known on such soundtracks as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Titanic”.

Ronaldo is Brazil’s greatest 9)_____ in soccer since Pelé. He began his professional 10)______ in the season 90 — 91, playing for the Social Ramos Club. FIFA (Féderation Internationale de Football Association) voted him best player of the year in both 1996 and 1997.

In 2002, he won the Golden Shoe Award of the FIFA World Cup with 8 goals scored.

2. Group discussion: Choose one celebrity and later tell us about his/her story.

Students read the paragraph and then try to retell their story.