1. Reading & Writing
A Story of One Minute
One Minute
By Yu Danyan

2. Brainstorming
What can we do in one minute ?
change one’s life…

3. Pre-reading A Story of One Minute
Q: What type of writing might this passage
belong to?
A. Argumentation (议论文)
B. Exposition (说明文)
C. Narration (记叙文)

4. Reading (para.1--4) Story Who were they What happened to them
What they though of Tony
leave
_______for a few days
put
______Rogers in charge
reliable
ask
______ Foreman for help
difficult
gets
easily_____ angry and
______everybody …
hates
leaves
______ in first and ______ last
comes

5. shocked moved encouraged smile
Story
Reading (para.5-7)
⑤ Rogers took over the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him. “Tony, do you know I'm in charge here today?”Tony replied, coldly. “I was going to fire you the first time we quarreled, but I want you to know I’m not,” he told Tony, adding what the foreman had said.
⑥After his words, Tony dropped the shovelful of sand he had held and tears streamed down his face. “Why he didn’t tell me that eight years ago?”
⑦That day Tony worked harder than ever before – and he smiled! He later said to Rogers, “my first foreman who ever say, ‘Good work, Tony,’ and it made me feel like Christmas.”
⑤ Rogers took over the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him. “Tony, do you know I'm in charge here today?”Tony replied, coldly. “I was going to fire you the first time we quarreled, but I want you to know I’m not,” he told Tony, adding what the foreman had said.
⑥After his words, Tony dropped the shovelful of sand he had held and tears streamed down his face. “Why he didn’t tell me that eight years ago?”
⑦That day Tony worked harder than ever before – and he smiled! He later said to Rogers, “my first foreman who ever say, ‘Good work, Tony,’ and it made me feel like Christmas.”
shocked
moved
encouraged
smile

6. communication Reading (para.8--9) successful Story
⑧Rogers went back to school after that summer. Twelve years later he met Tony again. He was foreman for railroad construction for one of the largest logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he came to California and happened to have such success.
⑨Tony replied, “If it had not been for the one minute you talked to me back in Idaho, I’d have killed somebody someday. That one minute, changed my whole life.”
⑧Rogers went back to school after that summer. Twelve years later he met Tony again. He was foreman for railroad construction for one of the largest logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he came to California and happened to have such success.
⑨Tony replied, “If it had not been for the one minute you talked to me back in Idaho, I’d have killed somebody someday. That one minute, changed my whole life.”
successful
It not only changed Tony’s life but also s____ both his life and other person’s life.
saved
communication

7. Rogers’s thought of Tony
Story
Discussion
How many comparisons (对比)or changes are mentioned in the story? What are they?
Tony’s
self-recognition
Tony’s behavior
Rogers’s thought of Tony

8. Rewriting Rewrite the story in the person of Tony Many years ago…
Then one day…
Twelve years later…
I’d like to say some words to
former foreman
my former workmates
my friends
my family …

9. Assignment 1. Polish your writing
2. Share your works with your fellow classmates.