FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY,Section A,3,Never, ever give up!,Objectives,Never, ever give up!,Section A,1. What is success?,To live your life the way you want to live it To earn money, power, and fame To be surrounded by people you admire and respect To achieve your dreams, desires, hopes, wishes, etc. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.,2. What do you think are the secrets of success?,A strong will and adequate preparation Determination and persistence Well begun is half done. When you want success as badly as you wanted air, you will get it.,1 As long as you are committed to your goals and you are _ about your dreams, you will _ accomplish them. 2 To accomplish _ results in your life, you have to be 100 percent committed and you must be willing to _ your time and effort.,passionate,Listen to a talk about steps to make your dreams come true. Fill in the blanks based on what you hear.,eventually,amazing,sacrifice,3 What are the three steps that you should follow to achieve success? 1) _ 2) _ 3) _,Map your goals out,Believe in yourself,Take action,1. Why do most people fail to achieve success in the end?,Not have the passion; Not clear about what they want; Not know the exact destination that they want to reach; Not focus on what they want.,2. Can you think of any other helpful steps that can be taken to make your dream come true?,First, to learn to adopt suitable strategies; Second, to realize the significance of learning; Finally, to create or find opportunities rather than wait for opportunities to find us.,We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be _. I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone. The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. _ in their work they did it.,subordinate,Absorbed,To be continued,Listen to a short passage on success and fill in the missing information.,They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great, and _ them accordingly. To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong. “Eternal vigilance,” it has been said, “is the price of _.” With equal truth it may be said, “Unceasing effort is the price of success.”,Listen to a short passage on success and fill in the missing information.,labeled,liberty,To be continued,If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less _ on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and _ help to success is character. Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction.,dependent,indispensable,To be continued,Listen to a short passage on success and fill in the missing information.,Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the _ of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and _ creature of circumstances. Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.,architect,irresponsible,To be continued,Listen to a short passage on success and fill in the missing information.,From the same materials one man builds _, another hovel. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else. The true way to gain much is never to _ to gain too much. Wise men dont care for what they cant have.,palaces,desire,Listen to a short passage on success and fill in the missing information.,Cultural background,Public schools in the UK & US,What do you know about public schools in the UK?,Eton, Harrow, Winchester, etc.; Independent of the state system; Educate secondary-level students for a fee; Evolved from an institution of the late European Middle Ages or Renaissance; Curriculum placed heavy emphasis on the Greek and Roman classics.,Cultural background,Public schools in the UK & US,2. What do you know about public schools in the US?,Elementary or secondary schools mandated for all children by the government; Paid, in part or in whole, by public funding from taxation; Institutions of post-secondary education overseen by government.,Cultural background,Public schools in the UK & US,Never, ever give up!,Section A,As a young boy, Winston Churchill attended a public school called _. Though not a good student, he did finish at Harrow and went on to the university. He eventually had a premier army career and was elected prime minister. His amazin