1,Unit 10 PROFITS OF PRAISE Janet Graham,2,Warm-up questions,Background information,Text analysis,PROFITS OF PRAISE,3,What did your parents do when you made a mistake? And how about the teacher? What kind of feeling do you have when you are praised? How do you feel when you are blamed? Do you often praise people or criticize them? How do Chinese usually do with praise? (= “Its nothing.” “ Dont mention it.” Or other words to conceal our actual happy feelings in order to show our modesty.) Do you think that punishment is the way to make a child learn?,1) 2) 3) 4) 5),Warm-up Questions,4,I can live for two months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain (the great American writer and humorist),5,Our praise are our wages. - Shakespeare (the great English dramatist and poet),6,Praise is the best way to develop good relationship among people. The first step is to know about the profits of praise and to praise others.,7,Here are some sentences about the praise,You look great today. (你今天看上去很棒。） You did a good job. (你干得非常好！） I am so proud of you. (我十分为你骄傲。） You looks so beautiful! (你很漂亮。） The food is delicious. (好吃！） Your son/daughter is so cute. (你的孩子很可爱。）,8,7. You have a good sense of humor. (你真幽默。） 8. Your English is incredible. (我真不敢相信你的英语。） 9. Your company is very impressive. (你的公司给我留下深刻的印象。） 10. You two make a lovely couple. (你们真是天生一对。） 11. You have a good taste. (你很有品味。） 12. You look like a million dollars. (你看上去帅呆了。）,9,Before Reading_3_William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.,His style:,His plays communicate a profound knowledge of the sources of human behavior, revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of characters. His use of poetry within his plays to express the deepest levels of human motivation in various situations is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in literary history.,His famous plays:,Romeo and Juliet Much Ado About Nothing A Midsummer Nights Dream The Merchant of Venice Hamlet Macbeth,10,Before Reading_3_Mark Twain,Mark Twain,Mark Twain (1835-1910) is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a great American writer and humorist.,His style:,His best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twains writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy（伪善）and oppression（压迫）.,His famous work:,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) The book is the story of the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim.,11,Globe Reading._1_Part Division of the Text,Part Division of the Text,An example that shows the importance of praise.,The possible reasons why people are so chary about giving praise.,The author takes people of different sorts for example and further explains that praise can bring about unexpected good effect on them.,Parts Lines Main Ideas,15,6,712,1,2,3,4,1314,The author encourages people to give more praise to others.,12,Are we too quick to blame and slow to praise? It seems we are.,PROFITS OF PRAISE Janet Graham,13,It was the end of my exhausting first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone awry, my apron was stained, my feet ached. The loaded trays I carried felt heavier and heavier. Weary and discouraged, I didnt seem able to do anything right. As I made out a complicated check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to quit.,14,Then the father smiled at me as he handed me my tip. “Well done,” he said. “Youve looked after us really well.”,15,Suddenly my tiredness vanished. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how Id liked my first day, I said, “Fine!” Those few words of praise had changed everything. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise.,16,Why when one word can bring such pleasure? A friend of mine who travels widely always tries to learn a little of the language of any place she visits. Shes not much of a linguist, but she does know how to say one word “beautiful” in several languages. She can use it to a mother holding her baby, or to a lonely salesman fishing out pictures of his family. The ability has earned her friends all over the world.,17,Its strange how chary we are about praising. Perhaps its because few of us know how to accept compliments gracefully. Instead, we are embarrassed and shrug off the words we are really so glad to hear. Because of this defensive reaction, direct compliments are surprisingly difficult to give. That is why some of the most valued pats on the back ar