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Unit 2 Lessons in life
Listen and complete the conversations.
1 A: Professor Brown, here’s my term paper.Sorry for the delay.
B: That’s OK. _________________, right?
2 A: Maths is really killing me! I’m thinking of giving it up.
B: _______________ You’ll never get your dream job as a market analyst if you don’t stick to it.
3 A: If you want to loose weight, you need to stop eating junk food, and you need to start exercising.
B: OK. I’ll start tomorrow… maybe.
A: Today. Not tomorrow. ____________________________________________
Better late than never
No pain, no gain.
Never put off until tomorrow
what you can do today.
Listen and complete the conversations.
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4 A: I’m glad you finally got here.
B: My car had a flat tyre on the way. Anyway, ____________________.
5 A: With my brother’s help, I finally completed my biology project!
B: Congratulations. _________________________
6 A: I heard that Mary is going to invest all her money in
this programme.
B: That’s not wise. As people usually say “ _______________
__________________”. I’ll
talk to her as soon as possible.
All’s well that ends well
Two heads are better than one.
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket
Match the proverbs in Activity 5 to their meanings.
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1 _________________: you must face challenges in order to be successful .
2 ________________________: it is easier to achieve something if you cooperate with someone else.
3 __________________: doing something late is better than not doing it at all.
4 ____________________________________________: you should start things earlier rather than later.
5 __________________________________: do not put all your efforts or resources into doing one thing.
6 ____________________: problems don’t matter if the final result is good.
Now work in groups and think of other proverbs about life. Can you find Chinese proverbs with similar meanings?
No pain, no gain.
Two heads are better than one.
Better late than ever.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.
All’s well that ends well.
Understanding ideas
Tuesdays with Morrie
Despite being a sports journalist with
a successful career ahead of him,Mitch
Albom feels that there is something
missing from his life.This all changes
when he is reunited with his favourite
college professor, Morrie Schwartz. On
discovering that Morrie is being weakened
by a severeillness, Mitch starts visiting
him at his house on Tuesdays. The weekly
conversations between Mitch and Morrie
result in a series of lessons on the meaning
of life and how best to live it.
Mitch Albom,
a sports journalist
Morrie Schwartz,
a college professor
Who are they?
What’s their relationship?
What happened to them?
Mitch learned lessons in life by _____________________.
communicating with Morrie
Read the comments and decide how many stars the four people would give the book(5 being the highest rating.) Give your erasons.
What they liked or disliked about the book What lessons they learnt
Arthur K It was a pleasant surprise to find that ________________________________________. As people learn how to die, __________________________. He was encouraged to __________________________ and make the most of each day.
this book is filled with joy and hope
they learn how to live
appreciate what he had
Read the comments and decide how many stars the four people would give the book(5 being the highest rating.) Give your erasons.
What they liked or disliked about the book What lessons they learnt
Amy Wang She thinks the book should be on ____________________. And she felt she was given _______________
______________. People should choose ____________________________ themselves. She felt as if she had been woken up from a long sleep and finally
____________________________.
all school reading lists
a deeper insight into the world
how they think, what they value
opened her eyes to the world
Read the comments and decide how many stars the four people would give the book(5 being the highest rating.) Give your erasons.
What they liked or disliked about the book What lessons they learnt
Marty His first impression was that the book is just ________________________
_____________________________________________________________________. Nonetheless, he would recommend it because _____________________________________________________________________. The book made him stop and think about ___________________________________________________________ and the importance of ______________________________________________________________.
made up of a collection of over-emotional thoughts and messages, many of which are repeated
it taught him a lesson or two and is something that’s a bit different
how much he was influenced by popular culture
creating his own values based on love and open communication
Read the comments and decide how many stars the four people would give the book(5 being the highest rating.) Give your erasons.
What they liked or disliked about the book What lessons they learnt
Vivian The book made her cry because Morrie's reflections on _________ __________ made her think about ____________
__________________________________________________________________. People should always keep in touch___________________________________________________. She was aware that people want to _______________________________________, knowing that ________________________________________________________.
love and
friendship
her life and all the good friends that she has lost touch with along the way
with the good people they meet as they go through life
die feeling that they have lived life to the full
they are loved and have loved others as much as they could
joy and hope
art
friendship
love
death
values
power
sorrow
Tuesdays with Morrie
Choose the topics of the book mentioned in the passage and find out the evidence.
◎ WHILE READING
Appreciate what we have and make the most of each day.
We should choose what we love and what we value by ourselves. Find out “big things” in life.
It’s important to create our own values based on love and open communication.
Be loved and love others as mush as you could.
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英语选择性必修第四册
2020
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