Lesson 4
Success Story
成功者的故事
一、学英语做老师、翻译
1、Last Sunday morning, in the community garden, I played shadowboxing with Lao Chen who retired a year ago and he told me about his work experiences.
2、As a college student, his major was Mathematics and he worked hard at his English in order to become a post graduate.
3、After graduation, he became a teacher in a middle school to teach both subjects.
4、Five years later, he became an interpreter in a big company and got a chance to go abroad.
二、开始创业
5、He worked for nearly ten years for the company before it went bankrupt.
6、After losing his job, he tried different kinds of business throughout the years.
7、However, he not only lost all his money but he also got into debt.
三、选对专业
8、Twelve years ago, he rented two classrooms to start an after class English school.
9、He taught the kids himself and composed his own textbooks.
10、In a few years time, the small after-class school had become ten schools around the province, which employed more than six hundred staff and had more than thirty thousand pupils.
四、晚年生活
11、Lao Chen looked proud when he talked about his choices and endeavors, which led to his success.
12、At that moment, his wife came and asked him to go to tutor their grandson in English.
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