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Unit 1
Looking forwards
Starting out & Understanding ideas
Learning Objectives
PART. 01
Understand the daily study and life of British middle school students by watching videos. Based on your own daily study and life, compare the study and life in Chinese and British schools, and find out the similarities and differences between the two. Talk about your first impression of high school life, and have a preliminary perception of the study and life in the senior high school stage.
Learning Objectives
Acquire, sort and generalize the key information of the video about Lu Xun’s decision. Analyze the text, organize information into comparison charts, and interpret idioms to enhance comprehension and lexical application.
Explore the life paths of global cultural figures to understand how different individuals navigated uncertainty and achieved success, reflecting universal themes of ambition, adaptation, and resilience.
Compare life trajectories of Hemingway and Conan Doyle, identify similarities/differences in their career paths, and interpret Steve Jobs’ quote about future uncertainty. Connect the authors’ experiences to personal future planning, considering how to prepare for life’s “twists and turns.”
Complete questionnaires, organize comparison charts, and reflect on personal future planning, taking ownership of learning life-themed language and critical thinking.
Understand the daily study and life of British middle school students by watching videos. Based on your own daily study and life, compare the study and life in Chinese and British schools, and find out the similarities and differences between the two. Talk about your first impression of high school life, and have a preliminary perception of the study and life in the senior high school stage.
Teaching Focuses and Anticipated Difficulties
Acquire and sort key information about Lu Xun’s decision from the video, analyze the text, organize information into comparison charts, and interpret idioms to improve comprehension.
Comparing the life trajectories of Hemingway and Conan Doyle to find their similarities and differences, and connecting the authors’ experiences to personal future planning.
Lead-in
PART. 02
Guess who he is.
He is perhaps the most recognisable figure among
Chinese writers of the 20th century.
He was a student of Western medicine in his early life.
He abandoned his medical studies and took up writing.
He thought that though they were healthy, people from a weak and backward country would suffer or witness suffering.
He dedicated his life to teaching and inspiring young people to strive for a better future for China.
Lu Xun
Watch the video and answer the questions.
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1. Who is mentioned in the video What decisions did he make
Lu Xun
When Lu Xun was 15, traditional Chinese medicine failed to cure his father’s illness, so he made a decision to study Western medicine and become a doctor. But later, he made a decision to abandon his medical studies and take up writing.
Watch the video and answer the questions.
2. Why did he change his decision
Because he realised that the people in China were more in need of treatment for their minds than their bodies. The most important thing, in his mind, was to change people’s spirit, and the best way to achieve this was through literature.
Look at the picture and answer the questions.
1. What can you see in the picture
We can see three different paths in the picture. One man is standing in front of the three paths. He may be thinking about which one he should follow.
2. What are the differences between the three paths
The path on the left side of the picture is very straight and smooth. The path in the middle is straight, but there are many rocks on it. The path on the right has many twists and turns. The two straight paths reach a mountain, while the winding one reaches a forest.
3. What do you think life’s path looks like
straight and smooth
straight but with many rocks
many twists and turns
Reading
PART. 03
Complete the questionnaire and share your answers with the class.
SENIOR HIGH QUESTIONNAIRE
Now you’ve been at senior high for over a year, I’d like to know your progress and plans for the future. Thank you!
Your Form Teacher
How do you feel about your performance over the previous terms
□ satisfied □ so-so □ not satisfied
Why
What goals have you achieved
What goals have you yet to achieve
What will you do about the goals you want to achieve
How do you plan to achieve these goals
Look at the title and predict what the passage is about.
Facing
the
Future
Different jobs people might do in the future.
Stories about different people’s future.
Various possibilities for future development.
Fixed future for everyone.
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
Skim the passage and choose the best answer.
1. What type of writing is this passage
A. A novel B. An argumentative essay
C. A news report D. A biography
2. What is the purpose of comparing Hemingway and Conan Doyle
A. To show that writers have different writing styles.
B. To prove that future plans don’t always work out as expected.
C. To introduce two famous authors to readers.
D. To explain why some writers are more successful than others.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
a What is possibly the most important concern in life
b What was Doyle’s main writing ambition
c What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future
d What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future
e Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories
f What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer
Para. 1
Para. 4
Para. 6
Para. 2 Para. 5
Para. 3
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
For many of us, it’s something we already have experienced. One moment, we are lying comfortably in bed, about to fall into a deep sleep. The next, our eyes are open and we find ourselves wondering or even worrying about possibly the most important issue of our lives — the future. Will we get into the school of our choice What will we be doing in ten years’ time Can we become the person we really want to be In the face of such questions, how should we approach the future Can we take action to shape it, or should we just accept whatever comes our way
a. What is possibly the most important concern in life
The most important concern in life is possibly the future.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
As many of us already know, having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality. In this respect, some people are more fortunate than others, as can be illustrated by comparing the lives of two famous authors, born 40 years apart. Although they shared the same ambitious and energetic approach to life, their careers unfolded in contrasting ways.
d. What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future
As many of us already know, having plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was from early boyhood single-minded in his ambition to write. On leaving high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. He went on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing. In his words, “I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.” Having set himself this goal, he wrote novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others. His novel The Old Man and the Sea, about the three-day epic struggle between an elderly fisherman and the biggest fish he had ever caught, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953. He would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
f. What did Hemingway do to achieve his ambition to become a writer
On leaving high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. He went on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
By contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Scotland in 1859, had originally worked as a doctor. But Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels. Although some of his historical novels were published, their success was nothing compared to the stories of his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which he is still best
known for to this day.
b. What was Doyle’s main writing ambition
Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
Interestingly, Doyle wrote some of his early Holmes stories while he was waiting for patients in his medical practice in London. After Sherlock Holmes made him a household name, Doyle gave up medicine and devoted himself entirely to writing. He still longed to become known for his historical novels amongst other academic works. The public, however, couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes. In desperation, Doyle killed off the famous detective in a novel published in 1893 so that he could focus on his “serious” writing. However, fans of Holmes were so angry that Doyle, under immense pressure, was forced to bring Holmes back from the dead. Doyle’s many historical novels, plays, poems and academic papers have remained largely forgotten, but Sherlock Holmes has been entertaining readers for well over a century.
e. Why was Doyle disappointed with the success of his Holmes stories
He was disappointed because he still longed to become known for his historical novels amongst other academic works but the readers loved his Holmes stories better.
Match the questions to the paragraphs and find out the answers.
Though both of these men were ultimately successful, their paths to success were very different, their futures not necessarily turning out exactly as they planned. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected. As renowned tech innovator Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
c. What can you do when faced with uncertainty about the future
Be prepared for the unexpected and trust that what you are doing now will somehow connect in your future.
Decide True or False according to the passage.
The passage begins by talking about people’s common worry about the future.
Both Hemingway and Conan Doyle originally wanted to become journalists.
Conan Doyle was more famous for his historical novels than for Sherlock Holmes.
Steve Jobs’ quote is used to support the idea that life’s path becomes clear only in hindsight.
Hemingway won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The passage argues that we can fully control our future by making good plans.
Conan Doyle was happy to write Sherlock Holmes stories for his whole life.
T
F
F
T
T
F
F
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Ernest
Hemingway
He was born in the US in 1899.
He _____________________________________ since boyhood.
He wrote ______________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
He won ________________________________________________
______________________________________________________.
was single-minded in his ambition to write
novels and short stories based on his personal experiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature later
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Arthur Conan Doyle
He was born in Scotland in 1859.
He first worked as ________, but ____________________
_______________________________________________.
He created ___________________, Sherlock Holmes.
He had wanted to be remembered for _______________________________________________,
but ____________________________________________.
a doctor
the fictional detective
his historical novels amongst other academic works
the public couldn’t get enough of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle’s main ambition was to become a writer of historical novels
Organise information from the passage and complete the chart.
Similarities
They both _________________________.
They shared ________________________
__________________________________.
were ultimately successful
the same ambitious and energetic approach to life
Ernest
Hemingway
Arthur Conan Doyle
Now read the sentence from the passage and answer the questions.
So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.
1. What is your understanding of “take a leaf out of the books”
2. What effect is the author aiming to achieve by using it
3. What other expressions do you know that share the same meaning
The author aims to maintain the reader’s interest by using this figure of speech, and perhaps to end with a lighter note by using a pun.
the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound the same
pun
Think & share
1. What is your understanding of Steve Jobs’s words at the end of the passage
You cannot make sense of your life by looking forward, because the future has not happened yet, and the meaning of future events is therefore uncertain. However, once future events have occurred, you may be able to see how they fit into the pattern of your life. Things which you did not expect to be important may turn out to be very important. You must face the future by believing that everything will work out in the end, and that your life will make sense and have meaning.
2. What can you learn about facing the future from the two authors
3. What will you do to prepare yourself for the future
4. Do you know any stories about Chinese writers and their plans for the future What lessons can you learn from their experiences Share your opinions with the class.
Think & share
Learn more about Hemingway.
Vocabulary
1. take action
take action to do sth. (＝take steps/measures to do sth.) 采取措施做某事
put ... into action 将……付诸实施
例题：
The committee finally decided to put the new reform plan ________ action at the beginning of the next semester.
into
Vocabulary
2. ambition
an ambition to do sth./of doing sth. 想做某事的愿望
achieve/realize one’s ambition 实现某人的理想
ambitious adj. 有抱负的；有野心的，雄心勃勃的
be ambitious for... 渴望获得……
be ambitious to do sth. 渴望做某事
例题：
Although he comes from a small town, he is ambitious ____________ (become) a leading figure in international diplomacy.
to become
Vocabulary
3. correspondent
correspond vi. 通信；相一致，符合；相当于
correspond with sb. 与某人通信
correspond to/with sth. 与……相一致/符合
correspond to sth. 类似于……；相当于……
Vocabulary
correspondence n. 来往信件，通信联系；关系；联系
in correspondence with 与……有通信联系
corresponding adj. 相当的；相应的；一致的
例题：
As a foreign ______________ (correspond), she has reported on conflicts and disasters in over 20 countries.
correspondent
3. correspondent
Exercise
PART. 04
1. They _________ (最终) won the game and demonstrated to all football fans that they were a powerful team.
2. One of his _________ (童年时期) friends came to see him yesterday, which made him very happy.
3. Your _________ (抱负) plays a very important role in helping you develop into a well-rounded individual.
4. Kevin kicked the ball so hard that it flew up, higher and higher, until it was a small ______ (点) in the sky.
5. Now _________ (侦探) are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious last night.
ultimately
Exercise: 单词拼写
boyhood
ambition
dot
detectives
1. On arriving at that area, the soldiers took action __________ (search) for survivors immediately.
2. Liu Xiang had an __________ (ambition) goal for the future. “To be No. 1,” he said when he was training for the Olympics.
3. A __________ (train) is someone who is employed at a low level in a particular job in order to learn the skills needed for that job.
4. It provides information on personalities, __________ (history) events and other content you'd expect to find in an encyclopedia.
5. __________ (ultimate), we need to bring nature back into city life, creating a more livable environment.
to search
Exercise: 用所给词的适当形式填空
ambitious
trainee
historical
Ultimately
Summary
PART. 05
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Starting out & Understanding ideas
Learning about Lu Xun’s decision
Reading
Vocabulary
Organise two people’s life choices
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Conan Doyle
Share feelings of reading
Homework
PART. 06
Summarise what we have learnt in this lesson;
Prepare for the next lesson.
Homework
See you next class!

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