Book3Unit7makingaliving.pptVIP

Warm-up Questions: 1.Have you ever experienced being a salesperson at spare time? 2.Do you think door-to-door sale is a good way to sell products? 3. What are the qualities required of a salesperson? 4.Do you think it is easy for a disabled person to be a salesperson? Why or why not? the qualities required of a salesperson courage/strong will/ perseverance/ hard work, physical fitness/energetic/strong in body, pleasing tone of voice, thick-skinned (to protect against the weather and against constantly having the door shut in your face Proverbs and Quotations 1. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。 2. Something attempted, something done. 有所为，必有所成。 3. Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. -- Norman Stephens, American writer 每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。 — 美国作家 N. 斯蒂芬斯 Today, we are going to learn a true story about a willing mind, a hero of common people – Bill Porter. Life of a Salesman About the Author Tom Hallman Jr. is a senior reporter specializing in features at The Oregonian 俄勒岗人报. He joined the paper in 1980 and covered the police beat（巡逻路线）for a decade, longer than any reporter since the 1950s. While covering cops, Hallman began writing feature stories -- at first off the beat, then the stories of everyday people. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in beat reporting in 1995 and in feature writing in 1999. He has won the Ernie Pyle Award 艾琳新闻奖 for human-interest writing, the ASNE 美国报纸编辑协会 Distinguished Writing Award for nondeadline writing (twice), the feature-writing award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Livingston Award 利文斯顿奖 for Young Journalists. Life of a Salesman Betrayed by a crippled body that leaves him in continual pain, betrayed by a changing world that no longer needs him, Bill Porter each day trudges（跋涉，步履艰难地走） his door-to-door sales territory, set on making his way in the world. --Tom Hallman The Oregonian