Unit 5 Literature Lesson 15 A Famous Writer课件（27张PPT）

Unit 5 Literature
Lesson 15
A Famous Writer
How much do you know about J.K.Rowling?
Nothing A little A lot
Have you ever seen Harry Potter?
Harry Potter is a series of seven novesls.
J.K.Rowling
What do you think the writer will tell us in the text?
Reading(1st)
Read the text fast and choose the best title.

a. A Speech by J.K. Rowling

b. J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter Series

c. The Road to Success





What comes to your eyes easily?
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years/dates events





She gave a speech to Harvard students
The idea came to her during a train ride.
the first novel for the Harry Potter books

2008
1990
1993
2007
2012
Her first but short marriage ended.
Harry Potter series was completed with its final book.
Her first book for adults was published.
1990
2008
1993
2007
2012
Reading Help !
events time
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years,
dates
then,
before,
later,
after that…
a. The?Harry Potter?theme park opened.
b. J.K. Rowling’s mother died.
c. J.K. Rowling separated from her husband.
d. J.K. Rowling finished her last?Harry Potter?book.
e. J.K. Rowling published her first book for adults.
f. J.K. Rowling got the idea for?Harry Potter?books.
Reading (2nd) Ex.3
Order Event Year
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2
3
4
5
6
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c
d
a
e
1990
1990
1993
2007
2010
2012


three years after the final book was published
In December that year


“That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be …a kind of fairytale resolution.”


“Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself

and began to direct all my energy into finishing
the only work …”
that I was anything other than what I was
that really mattered to me


Can you imagine what happened to her?
“That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be …a kind of fairytale resolution.”

a. It might surprise some readers to know which period of her life J.K.Rowling was talking about here.
b. She is talking about her life when she was writing the first novel of the Harry Potter books.
c. The idea came to her during a train ride in 1990.
d. In December that year, her mother died.
e. The next few years were difficult for her.
f. In 1993, her first but short marriage ended.
g. She had no job and had to raise her daughter alone.
h. She didn't have much money and life was not easy.
Paragraph 2
“That period of my life was a dark one...”
How would you feel if you were her?

“Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that really mattered to me…”
As we all know now, the Harry Potter books went on to become extremely successful and also made J.K.Rowling very rich. So where does she think this success came from? She thinks it is a direct result of her early failures.
Paragraph 3
Did she know that there was going to be great success?

“a kind of fairytale resolution” refers to___________
unimaginable success
I had no idea…

“That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be …a kind of fairytale resolution.”
a resolution to a fairytale
Yes. No.
Where does she think her success came from?
She thinks it is a direct result of her early failures.
She thinks she becomes successful because she failed many times earlier.
Paragraph 3

“Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself

and began to direct all my energy into finishing
the only work …”
that I was anything other than what I was
that really mattered to me
“Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself

and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work …”
失败意味着（在失败后我找到了自我），不再装成另外的形象，我开始把我所有的精力放在完成唯一对我重要的工作上。

that I was anything other than what I was
that really mattered to me
that
that
put


stopped
began



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Free talk
What do you learn from J.K.Rowling?
What failures did you face and what did you do?
What kind of person do you think she is?
What are your ideas of success and failure?
success