新视野大学英语第三版第四册第八单元SectionB课件ppt.pptx

; Warming-up;;Video Watching;Back;Successful people love what they do. The speaker has quoted words of many successful people. Russell Crowe, the “Best Actor” of Academy Award, has said “the bottom line is I love the actual job of acting” . More successful people in various fields have been mentioned to prove that the key to success is staying true to their passion. Something that people are innately passionate about drives their free time as much as it drives their work time. People should take that passion and bring it into what they do every single day. ; The cool thing about passion is that it turns underachievers into superachievers. Bill Gates was a loser until he found his passion for software. And the only way to do?great work?is to?love what you do. But the big problem is to find passion. You need get out there, try a lot of stuff, and explore many paths. You may try many things that don’t work, but when you keep trying, you will try something that could work. If you havent found it yet, keep looking for it. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it.? ;1. Who is William Butler Yeats?; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and a leading figure of 20th-century literature. During his lifetime, he was deeply involved in the Irish Literary Renaissance ( 爱尔兰文艺复兴 ) and politics in Ireland. He won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. Yeats is one of the few writers who completed their most famous works after being awarded the Nobel Prize, including The Tower and The Winding Stair and other poems.; Among the builders of the Irish national culture, as one of the most important leaders in Irish Renaissance Movement, and also a brilliant fighter for the independence of Ireland, he prefers to decolonize Ireland through a non-violent literary path and his literacy creation contributes a lot to Irish independence from English cultural colonization.; In his earlier age, Yeats was good at creating the orn