Unit 4   What would you do?

surprisingly, little "al" edison, who was the last of seven children in his family, did not learn to talk until he was almost four years old.  immediately thereafter, he began pleading with every adult he met to explain the workings of just about everything he met. if they said they didn't know, he would look them straight in the eye with his deeply set and lovely blue-green eyes and ask them "why?"

at age 11, tom's parents tried to teach him how to use the resources of the local library. this led him to prefer learning through independent self instruction. 

by age 12, tom had already become an  "adult." he  not only talked his parents into letting him go to work selling newspapers, snacks, and candy on the railroad, he had started an entirely separate business selling fruits and vegetables..... 

by 14, tom became totally deaf in his left ear, and approximately 80% deaf in his right ear. he once said that the worst thing about this condition was that he was unable to enjoy the beautiful sounds of singing birds. 

one of the most significant events in tom's life now occurred when — as a reward for his heroism — the boy's grateful father taught him how to master the use of morse code and the telegraph. in 1869, when edison was twenty-two years old, he patented his first invention and advertised that he "would hereafter devote his full time to bringing out his inventions."over the next years, edison's progress in creating successful inventions for industry really took off.then ask the students to tell what they can learn from edison.s: edison once said, “genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” as for we students, we should make no excuse in our learning process and work hard every day to achieve our goals. t: edison had a really different childhood from us. he was the greatest inventor in the nineteenth century. of all his inventions, electric bulb, is one of the most important. but just imagine what the world would be if there is no electric bulb? today we’re going to learn how to talk about things that haven’t happened. step ii  listing and speakingask the students to read the picture on page 26.t: when we talk about things that haven’t happened, we can use the words i would or i’d. now look at the picture on page 26. what can you see in the picture?s: we can see some people, a school, a zoo, a research lab, a bank.t: what are the people in the lower part of the picture doing?s1: maybe they are thinking about the answers to the question shown in the picture.