Unit 3 The secret of success

活动一：课文理解

Step 1：Welcome to the unit

Many people work very hard to become successful in their chosen career. Look at the following pictures of successful individuals and discuss the question below with your partners.

Why are/were they so successful?（Please listen and watch carefully!）

Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4

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Step 2：Reading comprehension

Fast Reading

Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.

　A.Sir Clive's stories. B.Sir Clive's mini inventions.

　C.How Sir Clive ran his company. D.Sir Clive Sinclair's life and inventions.

Read the text paragraph by paragraph and choose the correct topic sentence for each paragraph

Para One

　A.Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.

　B.Clive's brilliant Childhood.

　C.Clive got a job at 17.

　D.Sinclair invented the calculator and was saddened.

Para Two

　A.Sinclair was unfortunate. B.How Clive's ran his first company.

　C.Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk. D.Sinclair registered his own company.

Para Three

　A.Sinclair was the first to make pocket-sized things in the world.

　B.Sinclair's computer cost only 100 pounds.

　C.Sinclair's company expended rapidly.

D.Clive was very talented at making little things.