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Never Too Old to Live Your Dream

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4 habits to prevent premature wrinkles

• 1. Sleep early every night. • The women who age gracefully, who look younger in their

twilight years than their peers tend to have that habit of going to bed early every night.

• 2. Sleep facing the ceiling. • If you sleep with one side of your face buried in the pillow,

chances are, all that pressure and rubbing against the pillow as you sleep would encourage wrinkles to appear more quickly on that side of your face.

• 3. Use a sunblock lotion at all times. • 4. Use good antiaging skincare products daily.

Junk Food Milkshake

hamburger

Egg tart

French Fries Fried chicken

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Main idea

Extensive Reading

Outline

Getting to know Rosea. meeting Rose b. being curious about why she decided to go to collegec. becoming good friends

At the end of that year, Rose finished the college degree.One week after graduation Rose died.

1. to laugh and find humor each and every day. 2.to have a dream. 3. to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change, 4. to have no regrets.

Rose delivered a speech at our football banquet and told us four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success.

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Part I

Part II

Part III

Last para.

Read the text and answer the following questions.

1. What did the profess encourage the students to do in their chemistry class?

2. How old was Rose? 3. Why did Rose come to college at such an

old age? 4. What did the author and Rose do for the

next three months?

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Never Too Old to Live Your Dream

The first day of school our professor introduced

himself to our chemistry class and challenged us to get

to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to

look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I

turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady smiling

at me.

She said, “Hi, young man. My name is Rose. I’m

eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and answered, “Of course you may!” and

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“ Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel.” “No seriously,” I asked. I wanted to know why she had decided to go to college and what made her to take on that challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always interested in listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

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1. What are Rose’s four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success?

2. What did Rose mean by saying “there was a big difference between growing older and growing up”?

3. How did Rose end her speech at the banquet?

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Over the course of the school year, Rose became a campus icon and easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet and I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three-by-five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a bit embarrassed, she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so nervous. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.” As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began:

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“ We do not stop playing because we are old; we

grow old because we stop playing. There are only

four secrets to staying

young, being happy and achieving success”.

“You have to laugh and find humor each and

every day.

“You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose

your dreams, you die. We have so many people

walking around who are dead and they don’t even

know it!”

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“ There is a giant difference between growing older

and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in

bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing,

you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven

years old and stay in bed for a year and never do

anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow

older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea

is to grow up by always

finding the opportunity in change.”

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• 1. How did Rose end her speech at the banquet?

• 2. Why did so many students attend her funeral?

Part III

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“ Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for

what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only

people who fear death are those with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The

Rose.”

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out

in our daily lives.

At year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had

begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose

died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college

students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful

woman who taught

by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly

be.

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challenged us to do (Line 1)

to accept / take on a challenge

to face /meet a challenge

接受挑战

面对挑战

give sb. a (big) hug (Line 4)

dreamed of having a college education (Line 13)

建议，要求我们做…

给某人一个 ( 大大的 ) 拥抱

梦想着能接受大学教育

n.

向四周看turn around (Line 3 )

look around (Line 2)

转过身来

cleared her throat (Line 28)

There is a big difference between… (Line 34)

concluded her speech by sth./doing sth. (Line 41)

用…结束演讲

deliver a speech (Line 25)

做演讲

存在很大的差异

清嗓子

Listening Practice

• Listen to a passage and try to get the meaning of the word “fall guy”.

• Wrestle [ 英 ] [resl] 摔跤； 斗争

• The first fall guys were men who wrestled for1 . At the end of the nineteenth century, wrestling was a very 2. sport in the United States. Wrestling competitions were held not only in big cities, but also

• at 3. fairs and4. shows.

• As the sport became more popular, it became less and less of a sport. Many of the matches were fixed. The wrestlers knew -- before the match -- which one of them would be the5.

•

Listening Practice

• The goal in wrestling is to hold your opponent's 6. down against the floor. This is called a fall. Sometimes, one of the wrestlers would be 7. before the match to take the fall. He would agree to be the 8. ...the fall guy.

• Today, a fall guy is anyone who is tricked into taking the 9. for the crime or 10. of someone else. There are fall guys in many situations -- people who publicly take the blame when something goes wrong.

• The first fall guys were men who wrestled for1 . At the end of the nineteenth century, wrestling was a very 2. sport in the United States. Wrestling competitions were held not only in big cities, but also

• at 3. fairs and4. shows.

• As the sport became more popular, it became less and less of a sport. Many of the matches were fixed. The wrestlers knew -- before the match -- which one of them would be the5.

•

Listening Practice

money

popular

country traveling

winner

• The goal in wrestling is to hold your opponent's 6. down against the floor. This is called a fall. Sometimes, one of the wrestlers would be 7. before the match to take the fall. He would agree to be the 8. ...the fall guy.

• Today, a fall guy is anyone who is tricked into taking the 9. for the crime or 10. of someone else. There are fall guys in many situations -- people who publicly take the blame when something goes wrong.

shoulder

paid

loser

blame wrongdoing

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• 1. embarrassed• 2. delivered• 3. tribute• 4. talent• 5. challenging• 6. regrets• 7. retire• 8. opportunity• 9. instant• 10. concluded• 11. productive, productive• 12. leaned

Ex.8

• 1. away• 2. higher education• 3. heavier• 4. challenges• 5. long for • 6. pass• 7. made• 8. exciting• 9. sleep in• 10. finding out

Roles: Interviewer

Interviewee

The interviewee, a former student of Hang Zhou Senior middle School, was admitted to Peking/ Oxford University several days ago.

In order to encourage every student in Senior 3, your headmaster decided to appoint a school journalist (the interviewer) to have an interview with him/her.

Interview:

Beginning:Interviewer: Hello, I’m…First, congratulations!

Interviewee: Thank you!

Body:Interviewer:…

Interviewee:…

Concluding:Interviewer: Thank you very much. I think you have set a good example to us. We

can learn a lot from your successful story.

Interviewee: Well, I hope all of you can realize your dream.

1. greetings

2. choice of university and subject

3. preparations for university life

4. university life

5. qualities contributing to success

6. advice to schoolmates…

Reference:

Homework: Writing

大学生活即将开始，你将面对新的学习和生活环境，请根据提示写一篇英语短文，谈谈你打算如何安排你的大学生活。内容要点应包括：①确定新的学习目标；②改进学习方法；③学会独立生活；④参加各种课外活动；⑤处理好与同学的关系 参考词汇：adjust to; handle/cope with; on one’s own; make the most of; ________________________________________________