Making a Living 英语课件.pptVIP

I. Lead-in Questions 2. Main Idea . The text tells us Bill Porter, a crippled salesman’s story. To be a salesman, he endures more pains than general people can. However, in the end, he succeeds in making a living as a door-to-door salesman. The author describes Bill’s experience in details on a stormy day: after a long and miserable journey, he only sells one laundry soap, and in the evening what is waiting foe him in his house is just solitude and loneliness. It is the life that a salesman, Bill Porter, lives. 3. Paraphase . 1. He could linger under the covers, ... He could stay in bed for a longer time,… 2.But his dead mother’s challenge echoes in his soul. So too, do the voices of those who believed him stupid, incapable of living independently. But his dead mother’s encouragement will appear in his mind. also the voices of those people who thought of him stupid and not able to live independently. 3. And his enemies---a crippled body that betrays him and a changing world that no longer needs him ---are gaining on him. His disabled body that was loyal to him was the enemy to his life. The developing world made his useless in the society. And all this were coming closer to him and threatening him. 4.On the 7:45bus that stops across the street, he leaves his briefcase next to the driver and finds a seat in the middle of a pack of bored teenagers. On the 7:45bus that stops on the opposite side of the street, he leaves his briefcase next to the driver and finds a seat in the middle of a group of teenagers who feel very bored. 5. They don’t realize Porter’s afraid someone will steal his briefcase, with the glasses, brochures, order forms and clip- on tie that he needs to survive. They don’t know that Porter is afraid that somebody will steal the things he needs to live on, including his briefcase, the glasses, brochures, order forms and a tie that he can fasten with a clip. 6.His mother explained how the delivery had been