What leads to success?

  Learning Aims:

  1. The students can know what leads to success after listening to the listening material.

  2. The students can talk about their own opinions about the secrets of success.

  3. The students can develop a positive attitude towards thesecrets of success.

  Teaching Procedure:

  Step 1: Leading in.

  Show some pictures about Changzhou’s climbing the Mount Tai without legs and Fu Yuanhui’s amusing expressions. 

  1.Q:What leads to their success? (Open)

  2.What  characteristics do you think a successful man (woman )has?

  (Divide the students into two groups and have a contest. Ask  them to write down more words on the blackboard.)

  Step 2: Listening for main idea

  Enjoy a video clip of Ted and ask the students to get 8 key factors of success.

  Key words:passion, work, good , focus, serve, push, idea, persist

  Step 3: Listening for details

  Ex.1Listen to the following video clips and get the topic of them, then give the explanation to each topic. 

  1. Topic: Passion

  Explanation:Do it for love, not money

  2. Topic: Good 

  Explanation:Put your nose down in something and get Damn Good at it. 

  3.Topic: Focus

  Explanation: It all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing.

  4. Topic: Ideas 

  Explanation:There is no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas---it’s just doing some very simple things.

  Ex.2Listen and fill in the blanks. 

  1. Topic: Work

  Rupert Murdoch said to me“it’s allhard work. Nothing comeseasily. But I have a lot offun. Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! TED-sters do have funworking. And they work hard. I figured they’re not workaholics. They're workafrolics.”

  Q: Guess the meaning of “workafrolics”.

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 2. Topic: Push 

  David Gallo says, “Push yourself,physically and mentally, you've gotta push, push, push."You gotta push through shynessand self-doubt. Goldie Hawn says, "I always hadself-doubts. I wasn't good enough; I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think I'dmake it." Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they inventedmothers. Frank Gehry -- Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me."

  Q:Who is pushing you in your daily life?(open)

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  3. Topic: Serve

  Sherwin Nuland says, “It was a privilege toserveasa doctor." Now a lot of kids tell me they want to bemillionaires. And the first thing I say to them is: "OK, well you can't serve yourself; you gotta serve others something ofvalue, because that's the way people really getrich."

Q:It was a privilege to serve as a doctor. (English-Chinese translation)

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  4. Topic: Persist

  Joe Kraus says, “Persistence is the number one reason for oursuccess.”Yougotta persist throughfailure. You gotta persist through crap（废物）! Which of course means "Criticism（批评）, Rejection（拒绝）, Assholes（白痴） and Pressure.”So, the big -- the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED. Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TED-sters for all your interviews!