Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book Four
Unit Three: Fame and Success
Part I Get Started
Section A Discussion
▇ Sit in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions.
1 Who is the most successful person in the world in your opinion? Could you tell us something about him
or her?
2 What qualities do you think successful people have in common?
3 What do you think fame can bring to people?
▆ Answers for reference: 1 Open.
2 Some hints:
a) compassionate and concerned about the well-being of mankind
b) committed to the cause they are pursuing and refusing to give up in the face of difficulties c) modest about what they have achieved d) having team spirit
3 Some hints:
The good side: publicity, honour, reputation, power, wealth, status and glamour The bad side: burden, deprivation of freedom, privacy and even one?s identity
Section B Quotes
▇ Study the following quotes about fame and success and discuss in pairs what you can learn from them.
Benjamin Disraeli
⊙The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Interpretation:
The key to success is that you have a goal and remain committed to it at all times.
About Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): a British politician in the Conservative Party who was Prime Minister of the UK in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. He also wrote several novels, including Sybil (《西比尔》).
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Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
◎ Fame is a heavy burden.
— Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
Interpretation:
Enjoying fame is not always a good thing. It may hinder you from progressing further and it brings about troubles as well.
About Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778): a French writer and philosopher who was one of the leaders of the 18th-century Enlightenment (启蒙运动), and whose ideas influenced the French Revolution. He wrote essays on many subjects, and his best-known work is the satirical Candide (《老实人》) (1759).
George Santayana
◎ The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
—George Santayana
Interpretation:
Vain and shallow people seek fame — they have no character.
About George Santayana (1863-1952): an American philosopher, poet, literary and cultural critic. Born in Spain, Santayana emigrated to the United States in 1872. A graduate of Harvard (1886), he taught in the Department of Philosophy, Harvard from 1889 until 1912. After resigning from Harvard he returned to Europe, eventually settling in Italy where he lived until his death. He was a principal figure in Classical American Philosophy.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
◎ The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Interpretation:
Some people think that being famous is everything — but in fact doing your very best in your own work without thinking about being famous is great in itself and it is the only key to success.
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): a popular US poet who is known especially for his long poems about US legends. His best-known poems are The Song Of Hiawatha (《海华沙之歌》), The Courtship of Miles Standish 《迈尔斯〃(斯坦狄什的求婚》), Paul Revere’s Ride (《保罗〃里维尔的夜奔》), and The Wreck of the Hesperus (《金星号遇难》).
Thomas Edison
◎ Many of life?s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
—Thomas Edison
Interpretation:
There are many people who could have been very successful today. Unfortunately, they gave up when they encountered failure. If they had kept on, they would have been very successful. To them, failure is the end of their struggle.
About Thomas Edison (1847-1931): an American inventor. He profoundly influenced modern life through his inventions such as the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. During his lifetime, he acquired 1,093 patents, and marketed many of his inventions to the public.
Section C Watching and Discussion
Fame is a 2009 American musical drama film and a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title. The movie follows NYC talents attending the New York City High School of Performing Arts, where students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc.
▇ Watch the following video clip “Success Is Not” and do the tasks that follow: 插入视频片段： “success is not.wmv” 1 Fill in the missing information.
1) Success is not ________. It?s not ________or ________.
Answers: Success is not fame. It?s not money or power. 2) Success is waking up in the morning excited about ________. It?s getting to work with ________.
Success is connecting with ________and making people feel. It?s finding a way to bind together
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people who have nothing in common but ________. It?s falling asleep at night knowing ________. Answers: Success is waking up in the morning excited about what you have to do. It?s getting to work with people you love. Success is connecting with the world and making people feel. It?s finding a way to bind together people who have nothing in common but a dream. It?s falling asleep at night knowing you did the best job you could. 3) Success is ________and ________and ________. And success is ________.
Answers: Success is joy and freedom and friendship. And success is love.
Discuss whether you accept the girl’s understanding of SUCCESS or not. Open.
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▇ Script：
There are some things success is not. It?s not fame. It?s not money or power. Success is waking up in the morning so excited about what you have to do that you literally fly out the door. It?s getting to work with people you love. Success is connecting with the world and making people feel. It?s finding a way to bind together people who have nothing in common but a dream. It?s falling asleep at night knowing you did the best job you could. Success is joy and freedom and friendship. And success is love.
Part II Listen and Respond
Section A Word Bank inconsistent a. (of ideas, opinions, etc.) not in agreement with each other or with something else （思想、意见等）不一致的 preliminary a. coming before and introducing or preparing for something more important 初步的 Section B Task One: Focusing on the Main Ideas
▇Choose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listening passage.
1 What should young people do in order to be successful according to the speaker?
A) They should have dreams, hopes and wishes.
B) They should have the courage to write down their intentions. C) They should have clear goals in life and go after them. D) They should make a good choice in their career.
2 What should young people do to make clear their values according to the speaker?
A) They should put health as their priority.
B) They should put financial independence as their priority. C) They should make their life healthy and comfortable.
D) They should make their goals consistent with their most important values.
3 What advice does the speaker give on writing down one?s goals?
A) You should write down your goals every day.
B) You should be specific and describe your goals in detail. C) You should have the courage to tell your friends your goals. D) You should read your goals to your friends every day.
4 What does the speaker mean by taking action?
A) He means that people must jog every day to run a marathon.
B) He means that people should have a loving marriage or happy children. C) He means that a loving marriage or happy children take too much time. D) He means that people’s daily actions must be consistent and persistent.
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