《Using LanguageⅠ》优质课PPT课件下载

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My name is Liu Xiaoming and I am going to tell you how I coped after I failed the college entrance examinations. My personality changed. I withdrew from people, becoming unusually reserved, tired and anxious. My parents were, of course, very concerned and tried to comfort me and give me guidance. They sent me on a holiday and afterwards to a consultant to discuss alternative careers. His suggestion was to start my own business. But what could I sell or do? I felt completely useless. At last my parents, in desperation, gave me a few magazines and newspapers to read. “Count your blessings!” they said as they closed the door. Left alone in my bedroom I started to read them.

2.What else can we know from the first paragraph?

1. What can we know from the first and last sentence of this paragraph?

Para.1

my parents' and my feelings and actions

6 elements of the narration

World Values Survey

My eye fell first upon an article about some recent research into happiness and lifestyle. The results were very interesting. A World Values Survey followed the attitudes of people in 65 countries over 12 years from 1989 to 2001. This enquiry found that if a family had enough money to cover living expenses and entertainment, more money did not seem to make them happier. Although nearly all the unhappiest countries were poor, the world's richest country, the USA, was only the 13th happiest I thought of my own situation. Maybe money, or the possibility of earning it through a “good” job, was not as important as I had thought. There were other important things in life like a happy family and many friends. So perhaps there was something in this enquiry.

1. What did the enquiry and the author find in the article?

2. How did the survey show the result?

3. Did the author believe the result of this enquiry?

Seeking knowledge for its own sake

Then I saw next to it an article about a poor student who had suffered a great deal in his pursuit of knowledge. Zhang Guoqing, born in a poor village in Anhui Province, had been forced to leave school because of his family's poor financial situation, but he never gave up his ambition to study at university. For twelve years Guoqing went from job to job. At different times he was a street cleaner, a pedicab driver, vegetable seller and worker on a building site. During these years he slept rough under bridges and searched for food in dustbins rather than spend his hard-earned money on anything other than books. His physical life was difficult but his spirit fed on the philosophical ideas found in books especially on socialism and communism that he was able to buy and read. It was a hard time indeed! Yet he never abandoned his dream.

1. How many aspects about Guoqing can we know from this paragraph?

2. Did he abandon his dream when his physical life was difficult? If not , what did he do instead?

birthplace and financial situation

work experiences

life condition

Things seemed to improve when he went to work in Jinan. He got a steady job as a security guard, which meant he was now in receipt of a good income for a change. However, its advantages were outweighed by one important disadvantage: it did not give him enough time to study. After much soul-searching, Guoqing decided to stick to his dream and went back to sell vegetables with less income but more study time.

3. Did he give up his dream when he got a steady job? If not, what did he decide to do?

4. What does the underlined word “outweigh” mean?

Passing exams was not easy for Guoqing. He failed the self-study entrance exam to the University of Shandong four times but did not give up. Happily, on his fifth attempt, his determination was rewarded with the offer of a place. Then after finishing his Bachelor's degree. His efforts won him a scholarship from the university and a job in the future when his studies were completed. So his dream had become reality.

5. Did he abandon his dream after failing the exam four times? If not, what did he do?

6. Did he achieve his dream eventually? If so, what resulted in his success?

7. Summarize how Zhang Guoqing made his dream become reality.