Lesson 1 Success story

1. First listen and then answer the question.

What was Frank’s first job?

2. Listen again and answer the questions

What did Frank do before he retired?

When did he buy a small workshop of his own?

When did he use to make spare parts for aeroplanes?

How many helpers did he have at that time?

3. listen and fill the blanks

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his _________ as a young man. Before he _______, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was his job to _______ bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He ________ money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own. In his _______ Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two ________. In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which ________ seven hundred and twenty-eight people. Frank smiled when he __________ his hard early years and the long road to ________. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their grandson’s ________!

New words and expressions

retire v. 退休

company n. 公司

bicycle n. 自行车

save v. 积蓄

workshop n. 车间

helper n. 帮手，助手

employ v. 雇佣

grandson n. 孙子