《新视野英语教程教学资源book3第3单元》.ppt

;; In the long journey of life, you are surely to encounter many events. Your attitude towards those events makes your life different. Are you a victim of life’s events, choosing to see the negative side no matter what the situation is? Or, do you believe no matter what happens you should think positively and learn from the experience? To a great extent, a person’s outlook on life decides its outcome. ;1. What will you do when something bad happens to you?; ;3. Do you always choose to learn from something bad? Give an example.;4. Why do people need to choose a good mood whatever happens to them?;1. Have you heard the story of Helen Keller? 2. What can you learn from her?; Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of Eat, drink, and be merry, but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.; In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed, and he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. ; Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. ;;Life Is Full of Choices; If an employee had a bad d