Unit 5Overcoming Obstacles课件.ppt

Unit 5 ;Interpret the following quotations;All rising to great place is by a winding stair. -- Francis Bacon If we face our tasks with the resolution to solve them, who shall say that anything is impossible. -- Wilfred Grenfell ;Text A;About the author;(continued);Cultural Notes;(continued) The International Olympic Committee was founded on 23 June 1894 by the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The IOC is an international nongovernmental non-profit organization and the creator of the Olympic Movement. The IOC exists to serve as an umbrella organization of the Olympic Movement. It owns all rights to the Olympic symbols, flag, motto, anthem and Olympic Games. Its primary responsibility is to supervise the organization of the summer and winter Olympic Games. The current Olympic Games program includes 35 sports and nearly 400 events.;Olympic Rings;(Continued);Olympic Rings;Olympic Flame;(Continued);Olympic Medals;Text Organization;Part Two (Paras 3-5) Michael’s childhood was marked with dreams and tough training.;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.;Text Analysis;The text plays on words on more than one occasion. The text title, True Height, itself has more than one meaning. We may understand it as the new bar heights that Michael cleared one after another, or we may view it as the tremendous obstacles Michael had overcome in attaining his goal. The word “hot” in the first paragraph also plays on two different meanings, one literal, the other figurative.;We could also notice how the author uses details skillfully. How do we know that Michael’s success at pole-vaulting is especially significant? We know it by inferring, because even “Bert ‘If You Want It, Work For It’ Stone was crying like a baby in his wif