新世纪大学英语综合教程4(第二版)_Lecture Notes_U3.doc

Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book FourUnit Three: Fame and SuccessPart I Get StartedSection 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 spirit3 Some hints: The good side: publicity, honour, reputation, power, wealth, status and glamourThe bad side: burden, deprivation of freedom, privacy and even ones identitySection B Quotes Study the following quotes about fame and success and discuss in pairs what you can learn from them. Benjamin DisraeliThe secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin DisraeliInterpretation: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). 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 SantayanaInterpretation: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. 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 Reveres Ride (保罗里维尔的夜奔), and The Wreck of the Hesperus (金星号遇难). Thomas Edison Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas EdisonInterpretation: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 DiscussionFameis a 2009 Americanmusicaldrama filmand a looseremakeof the1980 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 _. Its not _or _. Answers: Success is not fame. Its not money or power.2) Success is waking up in the morning excited about _. Its getting to work with _. Success is connecting with _and making people feel. Its finding a way to bind together people who have nothing in common but _. Its falling asleep at night knowing _. Answers: Success is waking up in the morning excited about what you have to do. Its getting to work with people you love. Success is connecting with the world and making people feel. Its finding a way to bind together people who have nothing in common but a dream. Its 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.2 Discuss whether you accept the girls understanding of SUCCESS or not.Open. Script：There are some things success is not. Its not fame. Its 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. Its getting to work with people you love. Success is connecting with the world and making people feel. Its finding a way to bind together people who have nothing in common but a dream. Its 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 RespondSection A Word Bankinconsistent 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 IdeasChoose 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 ones 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 peoples daily actions must be consistent and persistent.5 Which of the following is NOT recommended by the speaker as a step to successful goal-setting?A) Be financially independent.B) Write down the details of your goals.C) Decide what you want.D) Take action.Key:1 C 2 D 3 B 4 D 5 ASection C Task Two: Zooming In on the Details Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.Successful people always have clear goals. Great musicians, great 1) _, successful salespeople and 2) _leaders know what they want in life, and they go after it. No one becomes successful by 3) _!Too often, people choose goals that are inconsistent with their 4) _and daily behavior. Do you value health, or comfort? Is financial 5) _a priority, or merely a wish?Have the courage to put your 6) _on paper and in your own words. Be 7) _and describe your goals in detail.A loving 8) _or happy kids require your time, your attention and your love every day. Your daily actions need not be profound or 9) _, but they must be consistent and 10) _.Just as an artist will make preliminary 11) _and work out the details in his mind, so your success requires written goals, careful choices, clear 12) _, and daily persistence. Answers:1) athletes2) inspiring3) accident4) priorities 5) independence 6) intentions7) specific8) marriage9) extraordinary10) persistent11) sketches12) commitments Script:Four Steps to Successful Goal-settingSuccessful people always have clear goals. Great musicians, great athletes, successful salespeople and inspiring leaders know what they want in life, and they go after it. No one becomes successful by accident!And yet, a lot of young people that I know just live their lives with no goals at all, or with only vague dreams, hopes and wishes. No wonder they have achieved so much less than they could!For those who have not yet experienced the joy of setting and achieving magnificent goals, here is a powerful set of principles that have worked for thousands of my clients. They will work for you, too. I call them “Four Steps to Successful Goal-Setting”:1. Decide what you want. Choose the life you prefer! You cant have everything in life. But you can have anything you choose if you will focus, pay the price, and pursue it with all your heart.2. Make clear your values. Too often, people choose goals that are inconsistent with their priorities and daily behavior. Do you value health, or comfort? Is financial independence a priority, or merely a wish? Make sure that your goals are consistent with your most important values.3. Write them down. Have the courage to put your intentions on paper and in your own words. Be specific and describe your goals in detail. When will you achieve them? What will success look like? Write down the details and read your goals every day.4. Take action. To run a marathon, you must jog every day. A loving marriage or happy kids require your time, your attention and your love, every day. Your daily actions need not be profound or extraordinary, but they must be consistent and persistent.Success does not “just happen”. Just as an artist will make preliminary sketches and work out the details in his mind, so your success requires written goals, careful choices, clear commitments and daily persistence. You can do this. Make something great of your life!Part III Read and ExploreText A Section A Discovering the Main IdeasExercise 1 Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 1 What is the main idea of the essay?2 What is the authors attitude towards fame?3 What does an artist have to do to stay famous according to the author?4 What excuses do people give to defend failures?5 Why do people chase fame according to the author?6 Can a person be famous and remain true to himself at the same time according to the author? Answers for reference:1 In this essay, the author talks about the issue of fame. The main idea is that most people want fame because fame can bring them celebrity, high regard, admiration, etc. However, the author emphasizes that there are few people who can really capture fame and that fame is usually short-lived. Fame can affect and sometimes even destroy ones life.2 The author takes an objective attitude towards fame with an emphasis on its negative side. He believes that fame rewards one with money, power and popularity, but it may also enslave him and destroy his life.3 According to the author, to stay famous, an artist has to perform in the style that the public wants and enjoys, no matter how bored he is of performing in the same style year after year. Any attempt to change the style may result in the loss of his popularity among his fans.4 To find excuses for the failures, people tend to claim that they are too sensitive, that they are not interested in money, that they are not interested in the power that fame brings and that they are not interested in the loss of privacy it demands, etc.5 According to the author, people chase fame because they want to demonstrate excellence in some field; to gain the admiration and love of many others; to be the one everyone talks about; to show family and friends that they are more than their family and friends thought they were.6 Probably not. According to the author, fame takes “the you out of you”, which means that once a person becomes famous, he must be what the public thinks he is, not what he really is or could be. Fame enslaves him with what the public wants, instead of helping him maintain and develop his own identity or his true self.Exercise 2 Text A can be divided into four parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part.PartParagraph(s)Main IdeaOne1-2Two3-4Three 5Four6 Answers for reference:PartParagraph(s)Main IdeasOne1-2Fame enslaves the person who pursues it because when he becomes famous, he will not only attract the publics attention, but also has to work and live in line with the publics expectations. He then becomes the slave of his own success.Two3-4For those who look for fame, failure is not necessarily a bad thing, especially for those who fail to perform well enough, because people tend to be more tolerant towards and sympathetic with them.Three5Though fame brings disadvantages to those who achieve it, people still seek fame for various reasons.Four6It is better to take a critical attitude towards fame.Section B In-depth StudyWe may all desire to be famous and yearn for the publicity, wealth and power that accompany fame. Few of us, however, realize that fame also has its negative side and, sometimes, it may even destroy ones life. Read the following text and you will get to know more about the adverse impact fame can have on ones life.FameMelvin Howards1 Fame is very much like an animal chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. Fame and the publicity that accompanies it, force the famous person to participate in his or her own destruction. Ironic, isnt it?2 Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of possessing a single talent or skill: singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. The successful performer develops a style that gains some popularity, and it is this popularity that usually convinces the performer to continue performing in the same style, since that is what the public seems to want and to enjoy. But in time, the performer becomes bored singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter becomes bored painting similar scenes or portraits, or the actor is tired of playing the same character repeatedly. The artist becomes the slave of his or her own success because of the public demands. If the artist attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, etc., the audience may turn away and look to give the momentary fame to another and then, in time, to another, and so on and so on.3 Fame brings celebrity and high regard from loyal fans in each field. A performer can easily come to believe that he or she is as good as his or her press. But most people, most artists do not gain fame and fortune. What about those performers who fail, or anyone who fails? Curiously enough, failure often serves as its own reward for many people. It brings sympathy from others who are delighted not to be you, and it allows family and friends to lower their expectations of you so that you need not compete with those who have more talent and who succeed. And they find excuses and explanations for your inability to succeed and become famous: you are too sensitive, you are not interested in money, you are not interested in the power that fame brings and you are not interested in the loss of privacy it demands, etc. all excuses, but comforting to those who fail and those who pretend not to notice the failure.4 History has sufficiently proven that some failure for some people at certain times in their lives does indeed motivate them to strive even harder to succeed and to continue believing in themselves. Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published and launched his career and created his fame. Beethoven overcame his cruel and harsh father and grudging acceptance as a musician to become the greatest, most famous musician in the world, and Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in fourth grade, at about age 10, because he seemed to the teacher to be quite dull and ill-behaved. Many other cases may be found of people who failed and used the failure to motivate them to achieve, to succeed, and to become famous. But, unfortunately, for most people failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning. There are few, if any, famous failures.5 Well then, why does anyone want fame? Do you? Do you want to be known to many people and admired by them? Do you want the money that usually comes with fame? Do you want the media to notice everything you do or say both in public and in private? In some areas it is very obvious that to be famous is to be