解放军文职招聘考试You Are the World

 You Are the World

你就是世界

Once there was a king who told some of his workers to dig a pond. Once the pond was dug, the king made an announcement to his people saying that one person from each household had to bring a glass of milk during the night and pour it into the pond. So, the pond should be full of milk by the morning. After receiving the order, everyone went home. One man prepared to take the milk during the night. He thought that since everyone would bring milk, he could just hide a glass of water and pour it inside the pond. Because it was dark at night, no one would notice. So he quickly went and poured the water in the pond and came back. In the morning, the king came to visit the pond and to his surprise the pond was only filled with water! What has happened is that everyone was thinking like the other man that “I don’t have to put the milk, someone else will do it.”

Dear friends, when it comes to contribution to the world, do not think that others will take care of it. Rather, it starts from you, if you don’t do it, no one else will do it.

  Remember, “You are the world”! The world is only a name; the individual is the reality. You can go on trying to find the world all over the world, and you will not find it; you will always find the individual.

  There is no world, except you. The individual is the only reality. And the world is nothing but the collectivity of individuals, so whatever it is, it is a contribution of individuals. If it is ugly, you have contributed to its ugliness. If it is full of hate, jealousy, anger, greed, ambition, you have contributed to this whole hell in which we are living. You cannot throw the responsibility on somebody else. Instead, you have to put the responsibility on your own shoulders.

  “You are the world”! And it can become the very key to each of your success.

I Aims and Demands（教学目的和要求）

To learn a passage—You Are the World and get the students to know it’s important to hold proper attitudes towards life and be responsible for oneself.

ⅡKey Points and Special Difficulties（重点和难点）

Key points:

1) to know it’s important to have the sense of responsibility

2) to grasp some useful words and expressions

announcement, individual, jealousy, greed, ambition, responsibility, to one’s surprise, nothing but, contribute to, the key to…

Special difficulties: to know the importance of taking the responsibility for oneself

Ⅲ Teaching Aids and Approaches（教具及教学方法）

Multi-media, Task-based approach and the integrated approach

Ⅳ Brief Teaching Procedures（教学过程）

Step1 Fast reading（快速阅读）   

Read the passage quickly and answer the questions（快速阅读并回答下列问题）:

1) Why does the writer tell us the story at the beginning of the passage?

2) Why did everybody pour water into the pond instead of milk?

3) What does the title mean?

Keys（参考答案）:

1) To arouse readers’ interest and draw their attention to the topic—to depend on yourself and take your responsibility.

2) Everybody thought that he didn’t have to put the milk and that someone else would do it.)

3) You must depend on yourself because you are the owner of yourself. You must learn to be responsible for yourself.

Step2 Careful reading（细读）    

1. Describe the man in the story.

What kind of person was the man in the story?

2. Translate the following sentences and pay attention to the underlined parts.

1) When it comes to contribution to the world, do not think that others will take care of it.

When it comes to…当提到……的时候

2) And the world is nothing but the collectivity of individuals, so whatever it is, it is a contribution of individuals.

nothing but 仅仅，只不过（= only）

3) If it is ugly, you have contributed to its ugliness.

contribute to 有助于，对……有贡献

4) And it can become the very key to each of your success.

the key to………的关键

Step3 Classroom activities（课堂活动）    

Work in groups of four and discuss:

Do you agree with the writer’s opinion? Why or why not?

Step4 Homework （作业）

请根据下列提示，写一篇短文，介绍著名科学家斯蒂芬·霍金(Stephen Hawking)。

1．1942年元月8日出生于英国。中学毕业以后，他首先在牛津大学学物理，后来又在剑桥大学学习宇宙学；

2．当他二十多岁的时候，患了一种严重的疾病，这种病使他永远失去了行走和说话的能力。面对不幸，他没有灰心，并继续从事他的宇宙科学研究；

3．1988年他出版了《时间简史》A Brief History of Time。该书一出版立即引起了科学界的注意，并畅销全世界；

4．斯蒂芬·霍金现为剑桥大学教授。他被认为是继爱因斯坦(Einstein)之后的最杰出的物理学家。

参考词汇：  宇宙学cosmology         牛津大学Oxford University

            剑桥大学Cambridge University

注意：词数120左右

Stephen Hawking was born on 8^th, January, 1942 in England. After leaving school, he went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology.

When he was in his twenties, he suffered a serious disease, which prevented him from moving and speaking forever. In face of bad luck, he didn’t lose heart. Instead, he went on with his research into the universe.

In 1988, he published the book A Brief History of Time which attracted the attention of the science world at once. The book sold very well all over the world.

Today, Stephen Hawking still works at Cambridge University as a professor. He is considered to be the most outstanding physicist after Albert Einstein.

Step5 Assessment（评价）

Words and expressions（词和短语）

1. announcement  n. 通知，通告                           2. responsibility  n. 责任    

3. individual  n. 个人                                             4. jealousy  n. 嫉妒

5. greed  n. 贪婪                                                   6. ambition  n. 野心

7. to one’s surprise 令人惊讶的是                            8. nothing but 仅仅，只不过

9. contribute to有助于，对……有贡献                    10. the key to………的关键