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Unit 9 Book II Section A Never Be a Quitter in Face of Life Section B From Hardship Comes Success I. Objectives Reading: Reading for gist, detail and inference; learning to analyze the structure of the text and read effectively with the specific reading skills mentioned in this unit. Listening: understanding sentences, dialogues and passages concerning the text. Speaking: Oral report on hardwork and success Writing: Argumentation: From a Statement to a Denial and Correction Translation: developing translation skills II. Important Points Word Power: learning words and expressions used in this unit to talk about relations between hard work and success e.g. Words: quitter, equivalent, torture, ambitious, scheme, supervise, procuctivity, etc. Phrases and Expressions: in the face of, make sth of sb. Be entitiled, pick up the pieces, know better, pay off, be obliged to do sth, etc. 2) Grammar: The more….., the more……., ; conjunction even if. III. Difficult Points Reading for predicting the writer’s ideas Using conjunction even if to combine a sentence Understanding success comes from hardship IV. Teaching Methods Explaining, classroom discussion, listening and skill-practicing V. Teaching Materials Blackboard, multi-media facilities, audio-visual equipment, CAI teaching plans Pre-class requirement: Students are required to preview the new words in Section A, read aloud and listen to the text. Section A Never Be a Quitter in Face of Life Step 1 A Brief Introduction to the text Success doesn’t come overnight. Those who have succeeded will tell you that it is a long road to the top, but they always know which way is up. The text mainly tells about the author’s struggle for achievements in working with words with the help of his mother, revealing the lesson 揘ever to be a quitter to make something of yourself? In order to narrate this story, the author combines four skills of development: flashback, sequential narra