Unit 13 Period Ⅰ Warming up & Lesson 1-2020-2021学年高中英语必修5【导学教程】同步辅导（北师大版）课件PPT

Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 Period Ⅰ　Warming up & Lesson 1 Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 话题激活·美文悦读 “……我虽然不富甲天下，却拥有无数个艳阳天和夏日。”过去是一所银行，我们将最可贵的财产——记忆珍藏其中，让我们享受阳光下的时光…… Hour in the Sun “...I was rich，if not in money，in sunny hours and summer days.” ——Henry David Thoreau When Thoreau wrote this line，he was thinking of the Walden Pond—he knew as a boy. Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting.A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat，lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days，“when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.” Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 I had ever been a boy in love with a pond，rich in sunny hours and summer days.Sun and summer are still what they always were，but the boy and the pond changed.The boy，who is now a man，no longer find much time for idle drifting.The pond has been annexed by a great city.The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses.The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats.In short，everything that the boy loved no longer exists—except in the man’s memory. Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter.But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule！So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten.So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens. The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession：the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives. Unit 13　People 英语·必修5（BSD） 菜 单 Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days，because days enshrined in memory are never lost.Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile.And for one boy who is now a man，there is