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“No matter how hard it
is ,we never give up.”
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Thom
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thom
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Thomas Edison
1.What do you know about him?
2.What kind of spirit do you need
to become an inventor?
1.Was he clever when he was a pupil?
How do you know?
2. Why didn’t his teacher want to teach
him?
3. How did he learn after he left school?
4. Why was Edison able to make so many
inventions?
5. What do you think you can learn from
him?
6. What do you think of his mother?
Useful Expressions
1.try out
2.be at/in school
3.read and write
4.be/become interested in
5.be/become good at
6.at the age of
7.most of one’s life time
8. have nothing to do with…
9. open up
10. with the money
11.not… any more
试验，验证
在校求学
识字
对……感兴趣
擅长
在……岁时
某人的大半生
和……无关
开业，开办
用这笔钱
不再
Age What did he do?(sth. about him.)
Young Tom
10 years old
12 years
Old
In 1862
16 years old
22 years old
During his lifetime
Young Tom:
He stayed in school for only three months.
His teacher didn’t understand why this new
pupil had so many strange questions. And
most of the questions had nothing to do with
his lessons.
His teacher asked Tom’s mother to take him
home.Tom’s mother taught him to read and
write, and she found him to be a very good
pupil.
10 years old:
He learned very fast and became
very interested in science.He built
a chemistry lab for himself.
12 years old:
He started writing his own newspaper.
He printed it and sold copies on the trains.
It was the first newspaper sold on trains in
America.
In 1862:
He saw a little boy playing on the railway
tracks at a station. A train was coming near
quickly, and the boy was too frightened to
move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy
to safety.
16 years old:
He soon became very good at sending
message by telegraph. And later left home
to work in different cities. This gave him a
new start in life.
22 years old:
He moved to New York to be an inventor.
With the money he made from some of his
earlier inventions, he opened up his own lab
in New Jersey.
During his lifetime:
He worked most of his lifetime in New Jersey.
During his lifetime, he had 1,093 inventions.
He never gave up. He would keep trying
out different ideas until he invented what he
wanted.
Do you want to be an inventor?
Why?
If you want to be an inventor,
What should you do from now on
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