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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
Egg tart
hamburger
French Fries
Fried chicken
Extensive Reading
Main idea
Words & Expressions
Outline
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Part I
Getting to know Rose
a. meeting Rose
b. being curious about why she decided to go to college
c. becoming good friends
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Rose delivered a speech at our football
banquet and told us four secrets to staying
young, being happy and achieving success.
Part II
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.
Last para.
Part III
At the end of that year, Rose finished the college degree.
One week after graduation Rose died.
Read the text and answer the following questions.
Part I
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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 eightyseven years old. Can I give you a hug?”
I laughed and answered, “Of course you may!” and she
gave me a big hug.
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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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Part II
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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?
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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Part III
Last para.
• 1. How did Rose end her speech at the
banquet?
• 2. Why did so many students attend her
funeral?
“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
n.
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建议，要求我们做…
to face /meet a challenge
面对挑战
to accept / take on a challenge
look around
turn around
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向四周看
转过身来
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give sb. a (big) hug
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给某人一个(大大的)拥抱
dreamed of having a college education
梦想着能接受大学教育
接受挑战
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deliver a speech
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cleared her throat
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There is a big difference between…
做演讲
清嗓子
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存在很大的差异
concluded her speech by sth./doing sth.
用…结束演讲
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Listening Practice
• Listen to a passage and try to get the meaning
of the word “fall guy”.
• Wrestle [英] [resl]摔跤； 斗争
Listening Practice
• 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.
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• 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.
Listening Practice
• The first fall guys were men who wrestled for1 money.
the end of the nineteenth century, wrestling was a very
2. popular sport in the United States. Wrestling
competitions were held not only in big cities, but also
• at 3. country fairs and4. traveling shows.
At
• 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
winner
the5.
•
• The goal in wrestling is to hold your opponent's 6. shoulder
down against the floor. This is called a fall. Sometimes,
one of the wrestlers would be 7. paid before the match to
take the fall. He would agree to be the 8.
...the fall
loser
guy.
• Today, a fall guy is anyone who is tricked into taking the
9. blame for the crime or 10. wrongdoing of someone
else. There are fall guys in many situations -- people
who publicly take the blame when something goes
wrong.
Ex.5
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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
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1. away
2. higher education
3. heavier
4. challenges
5. long for
6. pass
7. made
8. exciting
9. sleep in
10. finding out
Interview:
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.
Beginning:
Interviewer: Hello, I’m…First, congratulations!
Interviewee: Thank you!
Body:
Interviewer:…
Interviewee:…
1. greetings
2. choice of university and subject
Reference:
3. preparations for university life
4. university life
5. qualities contributing to success
Concluding:
6. advice to schoolmates…
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.
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;
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