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Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising
Additional reading
Questions
1. Is it hard for Chris, the salesman, to make a living? Why or why not? Please give some details.
Additional reading
Chris: This is part of my life story. This part is called “riding the bus”. Chris: This machine on my lap? It’s a portable bone density scanner, a
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Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising
Additional reading
Watch the movie clip and then answer the following questions.
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising
Additional reading
Video Quotations
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
grasp their main features; C) Practice writing a narrative essay; D) Practice using time transitions when writing
narrative essays; E) Have a try at past narration and present
medical device I sell for a living. Chris: Thank you very much for the opportunity to discuss with you. I
appreciate it. Doctor A: We just don’t need it, Chris. It’s unnecessary and expensive. Chris: Well, maybe next … Doctor A: Thank you. Chris: It gave a slightly denser picture than an X-ray for twice the
narration so that we can see the differences between the two; F) Learn to improve revision skills.
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising Additional reading
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Objectives
Review
In this unit, we’re going to: A) Understand the basic principles of the narrative B) essay; B) Read and analyze sample narrative essays and
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising
Additional reading
Introductions: Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman of
a medical device known as a “bone density scanner”. But the seemingly “revolutionary” machine is considered as an unnecessary luxury by doctors, who are the potential buyers. Life as a salesman is hard for him, but Chris still has big dreams for his future.
2. Can you have a guess at what Chris’ dream for his future might be?
Unit 12 Exploring the Meaning of Life
Warming-up activities Preparing for your writing Writing and revising
money. Chris: You see that car, one with the pretty yellow shoe on it? That’s
mine. There’s no parking in their hospitals. That’s what happens when you are always in a rush. Chris: Thanks anyway. Thank you very much. Maybe next quarter. Doctor B: It’s possible.