New Horizon

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• New Horizon
• English
• Book 2
• Unit 8
• Life and Success

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Content

• Pre-class assignment
• Leading-in
• Exploring
• Reading through
• Background information
• Studying through
• After-reading questions
• Assignments
• Reading More
• Questions
• Practical writing

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Pre-class assignments

• Locate a greatest person in the world and find
  stories to see how they succeeded in their areas.
  
• Can you name some greatest people of the world,
  including scientists, musicians, statesmen, and
  so on.

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Leading-in

• What is genius?
• What is the most important quality of a genius?
• Its a persons character.
• History has given us many geniuses whose
  characters, while often considered to be odd,
  have influenced our daily life.
• Name some greatest people of the world, including
  scientists, musicians, statesmen, and so on.

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Exploring

• Group work
• Do you think those people you named in Leading-in
  are genius(??)?
• What characters(????) should a genius have?
• Reference words
• humorous, have fun, curious, brave, keep
  trying, be inspired, stay fit

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• How do you describe your character?
• Reference words
• Competitive, confident, curious, fond of playing
  games, careful, humorous, brave, shy, naïve,
  generous, coward, timid
• What kind of life do you think is a successful
  life?
• Reference words
• great wealth, good health, many true friends,
  a nice family, a great achievement in ones own
  fields

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Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Leonado da Vinci
Thomas Edison
Mozart
Bill Gates
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Some other greatest people

• Ludwig van Beethoven

Galileo Galilei
Lu Xun
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Reading Through

• Background information
• Key information of some greatest people.
• Albert Einstein (1879 1955)
• German-Swedish-American. He contributed more
  than any other scientist to the modern vision of
  physical reality. He was awarded Nobel Prize in
  1921 for the discover of relative theory.
• His character humorous

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• Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
• American. He was more responsible than any one
  else for creating the modern world. Edison was
  issued 1,093 patents(??), more than any other
  inventor in history.
• He was deaf at young age.
• His character curious
• His quotes
• "Genius is 1 inspiration, 99
• perspiration."
• I have more respect for the
• fellow with a single idea who
• gets there than for the fellow
• with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

phonograph
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• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• German-Austrian
• Greatest musician. He was completely deaf
• His character persistent
• Sophocles (496 B.C.-406 B.C.) Ancient Greek
  tragedian, statesman and philosopher. He was a
  greatest hero in Greek history.

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• William H (Bill) Gates 1955-
• American. Chairman and Chief
• Software ArchitectMicrosoft Corporation
• Character He is no cut-no-figure (????) kind of
  guy. He is ambitious He claimed before 25 he
  would earn his first 1,000,000.

He is an absolute workaholic. He became the
richest person in America at 28. He earned more
in 20 years than the total of King of Car, King
of Gasoline, King of Steel and Oligarch (????)of
Finance did in 200 years. Now he is the richest
in the world.
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• Leonardo da Vinci  (1452 1519) Italian. He was
  a famous painter , and also an engineer, inventor
  and  philoso-pher.

Mona Lisa
Last Supper
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• Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912 ) Orville (1871-1948)
• The Wright brothers were self-taught engineers.
  They made their first successful airplane flight
  North Carolina in 1903. The first flight was 120
  feet in length and lasted 12 seconds.

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Study through

• Language points
• Words
• character n. ????
• previously ad. ???
• earthmoving a. ???
• n. (v.ing) a.
• troublemaking, storytelling, heartbreaking
• crash n. (??)??(??)??
• inspire v. ???????
• inspiration n. ??
• shock v. ???
• shocked a. ?????
• shocking a. ?????

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• Similar words
• interest, interested, interesting
• excite, excited, exciting
• surprise, surprised, surprising
• frighten, frightened, frightening
• function n. v. (?)??
• Italy Italian (Give other examples of
  nationalities)

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• -an, -ian American, Mexican, German, Canadian,
  Belgian, Brazilian, Australian, Austrian,
  Russian, Norwegian
• -ese Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Portuguese
• -ish Spanish, Swedish, English, British, Danish
• Expressions
• go beyond ??,??
• His grade has gone beyond his usual grade.
• put something into practice ????,???
• be well known for ????
• wander about ??,??
• search for ??

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• on the top of ???
• get off the ground ????,????
• in the face of ???,?????
• look for ??
• at ones best ????,????
• I was not at my best when I took the exam.
• be famous for ????
• Difficult points
• Geniuses have qualities that allow them to go
  beyond everything previously achieve.
• These special qualities enable them to
  achieve
• more than what had been achieved today.

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• To be a genius is to push the limits, in your
  mind, and beyond.
• requires you to use your mind to the
  fullest and then do even better than that.
• Questions
• What characters do geniuses usually have?
• Who said genius is one percent inspiration and
  ninety-nine percent perspiration.?
• Who is a big teenager?
• Who was famous for strength and special ability
  in riding horses?
• Who was a philosopher, poet, politician as well
  as a sportsman?

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Answer to the questions

• 1. A genius usually carries the characters of
  having fun, being curious, being brave, keeping
  trying, being inspired, staying fit.
• 2. Thomas Edison said this.
• 3. Bill Gates is regarded as a big teenager.
• 4. Leonardo da Vinci was famous for strength and
  special ability in riding horses.
• 5. Sophocles was a philosopher, poet, politician
  as well as a sportsman

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• Assignments
• 1. Read the text aloud after class.
• 2. Recite Paragraph 8.
• 3. Finish the exercises.

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Reading More

• Before reading the text, get
• familiar with these words and
• expressions. Then answer the questions
• Words
• telling a. ???,???
• competitive a. ???
• competition n. ??
• succeed v. ??
• success n. successful a.
• patience n. ??
• patient a. ????

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• everyday a. ???,???
• every day phrase ??
• survey n. v. ??
• urgent a. ???
• housewife ????
• n.n. n.
• homework housework
• consist vi. ?????,???
• stress n. ??,??
• vt. ??
• blue-collar a. ???,?????
• white-collar, grey-collar, golden-collar
• considerable a. ????
• deadline n. ????,????

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• white-collar person who works in an office
• blue-collar a worker ????????
• grey-collar ???????????????,???????????????????
• pink-collar ???????????,???????????????????????
  ?????????????????????????????,???????????????,????
  ?????????????????????????
• golden-collar ????,?????????100????????????????
  ???????,????1?????

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• Expressions
• put efforts into ???
• get to the point ????,??????
• be likely to ???
• She is likely to buy that car.
• apply to ???
• after all ????
• out of control ??
• consist of ???
• on top of ????(???)??????
• Dont worry Im back on top of things now.

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• hold down ????
• at the risk of ???
• go back to ???
• go the extra length ????,????
• This is a tough job. We must go the extra
  length to finish it.
• a series of ????
• care about ??,??
• at odds with ????,????
• The manager is always at odds with other
  managers.
• drag ones feet ????
• sit back ?????

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• Difficult points
• (Para.1)You may find the results to be quite
  telling.
• having a great effect
• (Para.10)develop heart disease cause
• (Para.11)unless their day consisted of staying on
  top of it all
• Unless they have total control over these
  things.

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Understanding questions

• To whom is the text mainly directed?
• For what purpose does the author ask you to
  answer the five questions?
• Who have the greatest risk of developing heart
  disease according to the text?
• What can we infer about the authors attitude
  towards the findings of the survey?

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Answer to the questions

• 1. The text is mainly directed to both men and
  women under stress.
• 2. The author asks the reader to answer the five
  questions to know the readers working style.
• 3. According to the text, working wives with
  children and a blue-collar husband have the
  greatest risk of developing heart disease.
• We can infer that the authors attitude towards
  the findings of the survey is theyre quite
  significant.

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Practical Writing

• Understanding
• and writing
• notices(1)
• Sample 1

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• CHRISTMAS PARTY..what
• Saturday 18 December.date
• Spring Hall.where
• 11.00am-4.00pm..time
• Drama and Dance Santa Claus
• Activities and Fun Food and Bar
• Music BBQother necessary
  things
• And much much more(all pink words)
• Adults 100 (includes BBQ)
• Children 50 (includes BBQ and Gift from Santa)
• Get your tickets from Rose Smith in Staff
• Relations!