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• 上课时间： 2012年 12月 24日• 上课地点：龙泉一中高一年级• 上课教师：学院附中 刘丽娟

Reading Enthusiasm

By Liu Lijuan

December 24

In Longquan High School

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Santa ClausSanta Claus

What does he usually do in his life?Does he enjoy doing so?What kind of person is he?He is a person who is ___________ about life.He is a person who is ___________ about life.He is a person who is filled with He is a person who is filled with enthusiasm. enthusiasm.

Talking

a strong feeling of excitement and interest in sth

Read through the essay and try to answer the following questions:

1. How many people are talked about in the essay?

2. Are they enthusiastic people?

the author--- Barbara a geneticist--- Barbara McClintock a cellist ---Pablo Casals

Wise advisers said, “…Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”

Why?

Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into chance and strangers into friends.

What do you know about the author ?

Reading carefully

Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintock

A geneticistA geneticist who won the 1983 who won the 1983

Nobel PrizeNobel Prize in medicine. in medicine.

Yet she didn't Yet she didn't let uplet up on on her her

experiments. Work was such experiments. Work was such a a

deep pleasuredeep pleasure for her that she for her that she

never thought of stopping.never thought of stopping.

cellist Pablo cellist Pablo CasalsCasals

As the music flowed through As the music flowed through his fingers, his his fingers, his stoopedstooped shoulders shoulders would would straightenstraighten and joy would and joy would reappearreappear in his eyes. in his eyes.

Enthusiasm is important for us in our life.

Why?• It is the paste that helps you hang in there

when the going gets tough.

• It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ----Ralph Waldo Emerson

remain determined to succeed when a situation is difficult

Further understanding

Years Years wrinkle wrinkle the skin, but to give up the skin, but to give up enthusiasm enthusiasm wrinkleswrinkles the soul. the soul.

--- Samuel Ullman --- Samuel Ullman

(the author and poet )(the author and poet )

We will become mentally old without enthusiasm.

Thinking and sharing

Who do you think is (not) enthusiastic about life?(Find some useful sentences from the essay to support your opinion.)

Discussing

life on weekends

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

---Winston Churchill

Enjoy doing Enjoy doing what you are doing !what you are doing !

Assigning

1. Read the essay and try to keep the sentences we have just discussed in mind after class.

2. Make a short speech on enthusiasm. (100 words)

--Point out the importance of being enthusiastic( Try to use good sentences in the essay.)

--Giving examples to support your idea.

Good morning, my dear classmates,

Today, I am glad to give a speech on enthusiasm….

Thank you !