All Can Succeed

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Unit 4

• All Can Succeed

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• Part I. Warming-up
• Pre-listening discussion
• 1. Why do you think some people are successful
  while others are not?
• 2. What qualities should people have to be
  successful?

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A. Vocabulary

• 1.  prosper
• v. be successful
• The business is prospering.
• 2. shed/ cast/ throw light onto
• make sth. clearer explain
• Recent research has shed new light onto the cause
  of the disease.

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• 3.  be blessed with
• be fortune having sth.
• He is blessed with good health.
• Mrs. Murphy is blessed with three children.
• 4. critically
• decisively crucially
• critically important
• very important
• 5. interact
• act or have an effect on each other

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Instructions

• In this part, you are going to hear a passage
  about how one can achieve success. Listen
  carefully and fill in the blanks with the missing
  words. Use you pre-knowledge to predict.

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Key

• 1. in your imagination
• think into the future
• possibilities
• a positive way
• the starting point

• 2. expect to win
• fulfill the vision
• 3. opportunity
• recognize
• grab
• a risk taker

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• 4. do something else
• prosper
• a joyful experience
• job requirements
• 5. other people the support friends

• achievement
• watch
• apply
• 6. Everyone can succeed
• to discover and develop
• hard work

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B. Vocabulary

• 1. issue
• matter problem
• 2. involvement ??
• 3. commit
• pledge promise make it impossible for sb. not
  to do sth.
• He has committed himself to support his brothers
  children.
• 4. enhancement
• improvement

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• 5.  regardless of
• paying no attention to
• He continued speaking, regardless of my feelings
  on the matter.
• 6. consensus
• agreement in opinion
• 7.  bond
• written agreement or promise that has legal force
• 8. integrity
• quality of being honest and morally upright

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Instructions

• Suppose you are administrator in a middle school,
  read the following checklist.
• Supply the missing words to complete the
  questions below. Answer all the questions by
  ticking yes or no.

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Key

• 1.       organization skills
• 2.       results oriented
• 3.       open-minded
• 4.       in the decision process
• 5.       parental and citizen
• 6.       innovation and excellence

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• 7.       the development
• 8.       Cooperation
• 9.       student needs
• 10.   ideas and plans
• 11.   high quality performance
• 12.   directly and clearly
• 13.   continuous professional development

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• 14.   their background or position
• 15.   a consensus builder
• 16.   leadership skills
• 17.   your bond trustworthy
• 18.   the position
• 19.   personal integrity
• 20.   work well with others

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Part II

• Successful
• People

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Vocabulary

• 1.  pop a question
• ask or raise a question
• 2.  arthritis ???
• 3.headmistress
• principal woman in a school, responsible for
  organization
• 4. handicap
• physical or mental disability

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• 5. self-publicist
• a person whose job is to make sth. widely known
  press or publicity agent.
• ???? ?????

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Instructions

• You are going to hear four people talking about
  the most successful person they know.
• Focus on who that person is and why he or she
  considers that person to be successful.
• Complete the Chart.

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Key

• Speaker one
• mum
• bringing up 3 children
• Speaker 2
• physical disabilities
• physical difficulty of arthritis
• hold her back

• Speaker 3
• a headmistress
• Speaker 4
• an actor
• energy
• self-publicist

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Post-listening Discussion

• Talk to each other about the most successful
  person you know.
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Part III.

• The work of Gordon Parks
• an internationally known African American artist

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Vocabulary

• 1. racial
• of race e.g. racial discrimination
• 2. injustice
• lack of justice
• 3.seek
• look for
• 4.racism
• the belief that human abilities, etc. depend on
  race and that some races are superior to others

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• 5. Gothic
• of or in an 18th-century style of literature
  which described romantic adventures in mysterious
  or frightening settings.
• ????, ?????(18?????????,?????????????????.)
• 6.Congress
• ????.

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Kansas
A state of the central United States. It was
admitted as the 34th state in 1861. Topeka is the
capital and Wichita the largest city. Population
2,730,000.
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Minnesota A state of the northern
United Minneapolis A city of southeast
Minnesota on the Mississippi River adjacent to
St. Paul. The largest city in the state, it was a
leading lumbering center in the 19th century and
today is a port of entry and major industrial
hub.
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Alabama

• A state of the southeast United States.
• It was admitted as the 22nd state in 1819.
• Alabama was first explored by the Spanish, and
  the southern section was claimed by the United
  States as part of the Louisiana Purchase (1803).
• Montgomery is the capital and Birmingham the
  largest city.
• Population 4,530,000.

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• 7.  Kansas Minneapolis Minnesota Alabama

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Instructions

• This is a story of Gordon Parkss life. Listen
  carefully and follow the events that took place
  chronically. Select the information to filling
  the blanks.

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Key

• in 1948---
• moving to Paris
• in 1956--- racial injustice
• the rich and poor in Brazil
• by the 1960s---
• in 1963---

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• poetry music photographs
• Gordon Parkss most successful works
• 1.  the unequal treatment blacks faced in the
  U.S.
• 2. how racial injustice affects peoples daily
  lives
• a very sick young boy in a poor family in Bra