Unit 2The Richest Man in America, Down Home

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Unit 2 The Richest Man in America, Down Home

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Contents

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Students will be able to: grasp the main idea and the structure of Warm-up Activities the text; Background Information appreciate the use of indirect description in portraying a person; Reading: Text grasp the key language points A and grammatical structures in the text; Writing Strategy conduct a series of reading, listening, speakingAssignment and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Objectives

Warm-up Activities Rich People I KnowCollect stories, news reports, pictures, books, or video clips of rich people. Form groups of three or four to share what you have collected and discuss what values these rich people hold dear.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

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Who’s Who

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Look at the following pictures. Who are they?

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Robin Li

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Li was born in Yangquan, Shanxi, China, where he spent most of his childhood. Both of his parents were factory workers. Li was the fourth of five children, and the only boy among the five. He chose Peking University for college where he studied information management for four years and received a Bachelor of Science degree. In the fall of 1991, Li went to SUNY-Buffalo in the US to study computer science towards a Doctoral degree. He received his Master of Science degree in 1994 after he had decided to discontinue his PhD program work. (全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Robin Li

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Robin has turned the company into the largest Chinese search engine, with over 70% market share, and the third largest independent search engine in the world. In 2005, Baidu completed its successful IPO on NASDAQ, and in 2007 became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index.

Quotations:

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Li Ka-shing

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Nicknamed Superman, Asia’s richest and most influential billionaire. Once a poor immigrant, got his start selling plastic flowers in Hong Kong in the 1950s. business centered on the conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa (telecom, port services, real estate), now spans 41 countries and accounts for 13% of Hong Kong’s stock market value. has invested more than $7 billion in Chinese mainland and built 400 miles of roads and bridges.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

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has given away over $500 million to

support education and health care facilities in Asia.

Quotations: 信不等于亲人。 傲气不可有，傲骨不可无。

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Bill Gates

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the richest of the rich. has topped the Forbes 400 list for

nine consecutive years since 1994 and is most likel

y to remain to be the richest in the world in the years to come. born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. had been shy and awkward, rarely ventured out to parties even when studying at Harvard University.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Bill Gates

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founded the Microsoft Corporation (1974), a computer software firm, with Paul Allen. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) and subsequent programs (including the Windows operating systems) made Microsoft the world’s largest producer of software for microcomputers.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Bill Gates Quotations:

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There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Discussion

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Do you know any stories of rich people? How did they become rich? What values in them are the most important factors contributing to their success? (全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two

Background InformationSam Walton

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Wal-MartForbes

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If judged by appearance, Sam Walton was a very ordinary man. Sam Walton, an American retailing executive, was born in 1918 in Oklahoma. He was raised in the Depression years, and served in the army during World War II. After 17 years of operating franchise retail stores, he opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Arkansas, in 1962. Walton had a passion to compete and an appetite for adventure. He devoted his life to expanding and improving upon this concept. He was also a good motivator of people, because he practiced what he preached.(全新版)大学英语 BOOK Two