Unit 6 What Is Happiness（课件）- 《当代商务英语综合教程2》同步教学（华师大版·第2版）

当代商务英语综合教程 2 （第2版） Unit 6 What Is Happiness Contents 2 Text A What Is Happiness Language in Use Text B Do Start-Ups Really Need Formal Business Plans Warm-up Questions: 3 Warm-up Questions: 1. Can money really bring happiness to you? 2. What are some of the symbols of wealth in modern society? Pre-class Task 1 4 Pre-class Task 1 Read the text once for the main idea（s）. Do not refer to the notes, the glossary or dictionaries. Text A What Is Happiness 5 Passage The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is. 1 6 Passage A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. He sits still there with all attention to his religious contemplation, free even of his own body, or nearly free of it. If some admirers bring him food he eats it; if not, he starves all the same. What is the outside world is nothing to him. His religious contemplation is his joy, the accomplishment of which is itself a joy within himself. 2 Text A What Is Happiness 7 Passage We, modern people, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them — and to create them faster than any man's money in his pocket can satisfy them. 3 Text A What Is Happiness 8 Passage Car dealers are flying banners that read “Your Happiness Is Right Here! You Auto (which sounds like “ought to”), Buy Now!”They are calling upon people to buy at once, with money they do not have, automobiles they do not really need. Or watch your TV for a few minutes. Then there must be someone, a lady or a gentleman, coming up to tell you:“Try it! The everlasting beauty and happiness must be yours!” Text A What Is Happiness 9 Passage Obviously no half-foolish person can be completely