Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles.ppt

Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles Text A True Height Do you know these proverbs? Where there is a will, there is a way. Rome wasn’t built in a day. God helps those who help themselves. You reap what you sow. Constant dripping wears away the stone. Stories about Overcoming Obstacles Helen Keller Zhang Haidi Franklin Roosevelt Stephen Hawking Discuss in groups A. the obstacles that you have been faced with in your life B. the ways in which you overcame such difficulties C. the problems that you still have in overcoming these obstacles Scan the whole text to find out all the words and phrases that are related to sports or stadium. And think about their Chinese equivalents. Part Division Part One (paras. 1-2) Michael faced the most challenging competition in his pole-vaulting career. Part Two (paras. 3-5) Michael’s childhood was marked by dreams and tough training. Part Division Part Three (paras. 6-12) Michael topped his personal best, won the championship and set a new world record. Part Four (para. 13) What was most unusual about Michael’s victory was that he was blind. As the text consists of the main story and a flashback, the narration has to switch from the ongoing competition to earlier events and then return to the ongoing competition. How, then, does the author manage to make these parts in the text flow smoothly? One way is to repeat a key word in the last sentence of a paragraph. Now find out the key word that helps join Part One and Part Two, and then copy down the two sentences that contain it. It also has the element of flying, and the thought of flying as high as a two-story building is a mere fantasy to anyone watching such an event. As long as Michael could remember he had always dreamed of flying. Another way is to pick up a key idea from a previous paragraph and repeat it in the sentence introducing the next paragraph. Now find the key idea that helps join Part Two and Part Three, and then copy down the sentence that uses it. All of Mic