Lecture Three

Vocabulary

The United States of America

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty

White House

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

James Truslow Adams

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

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For most people

fancy house big car

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

Martin Luther King

Powell, former Secretary of State, the highest-ranking African American

Condi Rice, the first black female Secretary of State

It Never Rains in Southern California

Got on board a westbound seven forty-sevenDidn't think before deciding what to doThat talk of opportunities, TV breaks and moviesRang true, sure rang true ...Seems it never rains in southern CaliforniaSeems I've often heard that kind of talk beforeIt never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya?It pours, man, it pours

I’m out of work, I’m out of my headOut of self respect, I’m out of breadI’m underloved, I’m underfed, I wanna go homeIt never rains in California, but girl, don’t they warn ya?It pours, man, it pours

Will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it?

Had offers but didn't know which one to take

Please don't tell them how you found me

Don't tell 'em how you found me

Give me a break, give me a break

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Mr. Hard Working

1. Tony

2. Tony and Mr. Crawford

3. Tony’s dream

4. Dream to reality

5. Tony vs. the greatest industrialists

PART I

PART II

Dream to reality

Dream to reality: Tony’s 5 Steps to Success

1. worked as a help at the author’s house

2. got a job clearing snow at the author’s factory

3. learned to become a skilled worker

4. bought a house with the author’s help

5. bought a farm and sent for his family in Italy

Step 1

a rocky farm, five-foot-seven or eight, thin, mow the lawn, broken English

couldn’t afford a gardener, Depression Days

the lawn mowed, garden weeded, walks swept

compliment him, small weekly pay, clean up the yards

clearing snow, determination and hope

personnel, a good worker

Step 2

apprentice school, laborers

capacity, blueprints, micrometers, precision work

graduate, a skilled grinder, delighted

Step 3

a house for sale, wreck

call on a banker friend, loan money on character

mortgage for $2,000, no down payment

discarded odds and ends

Step 4

confidence, $8,000, a farm, abandoned piece of property with a house and shed

send for wife and children, childhood friend

Step 5

1. comprehend

2. turn down

3. assume

4. compliment

5. capacity

6. wreck

7. desert

8. odds and ends

9. abandon

10.owe

Summary of Key Words

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Assignments

1.自学 Unit 4 Text B；预习 II-Unit 2 Text A

2.记忆词汇表 3中的所有单词

3.完成《奠基篇》 Unit 3 词汇部分