新世纪university英语综合的教程unit6.ppt

Unit 6 Attitudes to Life  Two Truths to Live By Get started 1. Do you always get what you wanted? Have you experienced any difficult time or frustration in your life? 2. What do you think is the right attitude towards problems and frustration? Quotes Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. --- Winston Churchill Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it . ---Lou Haltz When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. --- Helen keller. How to keep a positive attitude? What is your motto in life? Two Truths to Live By Text comprehension 1. What is the insight the author gained from his experience in hospital? 2. What are the two truths to live by according to the author? 3. Can most people hold fast to the gifts of life according to the author? 4. How should we look at the paradox of life according to the author? 5. What suggestions does the author make to resolve the paradox? Structure of the text Detailed reading Detailed reading Detailed reading Detailed reading A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious — but we are too careless of them. Here then is the first pole of life’s paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute. Homework Recite the first three paragraphs Fast reading (Book one ) Part 2 Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life’s coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we