Unit 9 Famous Women.ppt

文档介绍：Unit 9 Famous Women
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Introductory Remarks:
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” Wilma Rudolph lived up to Eleanor’s idea and she is a great example for all of us.
Language Points:
suffer: feel or have pain, loss, etc.
. Mary often suffers from bad headache.
Henry suffered a great deal from cold and hunger when he was young.
gloomy: depressed, depressing
. What are you so gloomy about? Cheer up!
We got a gloomy report on the spread of the disease this morning.
cripple: n. person who is unable to walk or move properly because of disease or injury to the spine or legs
. He has just had a car accident and I’m afraid he may e a cripple.
V. make (sb.) a cripple; damage or weaken (sth.) seriously
. His crippled left arm always hurts on rainy days.
The city was crippled by the big snowstorm.