Unit 23 Lesson 90

1 What do you know about Bill Gates? 2 What can you learn from Bill Gates? 3 Do you want to be a person like Bill Gates? Why or why not?

Bill Gates 1.Date of birth:_________________ 2.Favourite subject at school:_____ 3.Hobbies:_____________________ 4.What Gates did at 17:__________ 5.In 1973:______________________ 6.In 1975: _____________________ 7.In 1994:______________________ 8.In 1999:______________________ 9.Additional information:________ 课堂练习

1.Date of birth:________________October 28, Favourite subject at school:_______________ Science and maths 3.Hobbies:____________________ 4.What Gates did at 17:___________________ ____________________________ 5.In 1973:___________________________ 6.In 1975:____________________________ ________________________. 7.In 1994:_________________________. 8.In 1999:______________________________ ___________________. Playing golf and bridge He worked out a software programme and sold it. He went to Harvard University. He began the company Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen He married Melinda French He wrote a book called the Speed of Thought

9.Additional information:_________________ ______________________________________ Bill wanted to be a scientist when he was young. He started to play with computers when he was 13 years old. Fill in the blanks with words or phrases. 1.This maths problem is too difficult for him. He ______an hour________it____. spentworking Out 2. He was born in a small village near Suzhou but ________in Shanghai. grew up

3.Brian is very interested in biology. He______ several hours reading books about it every day. spends 4.Linda ______swimming very much. She swims every day after school. I’m sure she will be a famous swimmer__ ___ ______. enjoys in the future 5.Edison liked to do_______ things when he was a small boy. unusual 6.The tall building was___________his father. named after

7.The teacher often tells us how to _______ our speaking skills （技能）. develop 8.We are trying hard to ________ our English. improve 9.This maths problem is very difficult, so the little boy cannot_____ it. solve 10. I was born two years after my parents got _______. married