现代大学英语精读4 lesson1warmup.ppt

* B T L E W Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby Part One ENTER Warm-up Picture Description Quotations on Thinking What Is Your Story? To be continued on the next page. Picture Description Please describe the following pictures in detail and depict their symbolic meaning in your own words. Compare your answer with that of the author, and try to find their symbolic meaning in the boy’s (the author) eyes. To be continued on the next page. Picture Description To be continued on the next page. Picture Description The end of Picture Description. Picture Description To be continued on the next page. “Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.” —Edward de Bono “Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well.” —Robert Heinlein “I think, therefore I am.” —René Déscartes II. Quotations on Thinking To be continued on the next page. II. Quotations on Thinking “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” —Socrates “We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.” —Mao Zedong II. Quotations on Thinking “Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” —William James “Nurture your mind with great thoughts.” —Benjamin Disraeli “What is the hardest task in the world? To think.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson The end of Quotations on Thinking. The end of What Is Your Story. III. What Is Your Story? Have you got an anecdote or true story about your school life? Would you like to tell it to your partner? * B T L E W Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby