新时代明德大学英语电子教案Book2-Unit1.pptx

;CONTENT;Quotes;囊括大典，网罗众家； 思想自由，兼容并包。 — —蔡元培 No man is free who is not master of himself. — Epictetus;Core Value Focus;Recognizing that freedom promotes human development and the free development of individuals is empowered in every aspect by a society with freedom;Skills Focus;Reading Identifying main ideas and supporting details Listening Identifying how a speech starts Speaking Using an effective hook to start a speech Writing Developing your idea with support;Exploring the Core Value;Read the diagram below and try to predict the core value focus to be covered in this unit. Write down and share with your partner the valuable ideas that you get from the diagram.;Reading A;Text; A postdoc friend recently called me to discuss his career options. He didn’t want to run his own lab, he said. Instead, he wanted to become a research scientist,mainly working at the bench — like me. I sensed that his mind was already made up, but he needed validation about pursuing a path that is not generally thought of as a professional success. ;Our conversation got me thinking about my own decision to become a research scientist — and about other career choices I made that went against the norm. When I was a high school student in my home country of Greece, good students were expected to become doctors, and my biology teacher insisted that I apply to medical school. But the idea of being a doctor did not excite me, and I pursued “ basic” biology instead. In this case and the ones to follow, I couldn’t guarantee at the time that I was making the right decisions. But I knew that, because they were based on my personal preferences, they would be ;harder to regret. Years later, as I was wrapping up my Ph.D. after having spent countless hours centrifuging yeast, I couldn’t wait to work with a new model organism. When an older, successful collaborator told me,