大学英语口语教程 the Meaning of Life.ppt
The Meaning of Life,1.Question:what is life all about?Well,you often hear that“life is a journey,”but a journey to where,exactly?Some people say that life is all about acquiring knowledge.There are those who say that life has no purpose.In your opinion,what is life?Or what is the meaning of life?Watch the following video and answer the question.,Some people say like this:Life is to make good relationship with the others,to improve skill,to search goals,to do the thing you think its meanfull,to be a successful man and enjoy your life.Some people say like this:The meaning of life is helping everyone,making every child living in a happy life,Some people say like this:life is a gift,that is why we should be grateful for each time we have.We have to value everything we get,for we live only once,we cannot turn back the clock.,2.How do you feel of your current major?,If you were given the second chance to choose your major for your college study,what would you select and why?,Tipsaccounting,computer science,psychology,civil engineering,philosophy,medical technologypopular,interesting,enjoyable,promising,practical,meaningful,beneficial,well-paid,Warming-up,journalist,electrical engineer,scientist,3.Discussion:Today,most parents think that it is necessary for their children to accept higher education,can you give some reasons about that in detail?,4.Discuss:It is said that there are some problems about our current education system,in order to solve it,we should know the aim of education or the functions of education,please discuss the questions with your partners.,Tips:Enrich the knowledgeBroaden horizonDistinguish right from wrongSee the connections between thingsSatisfy peoples desire for career successMake people be far-sightedTeach people what is the meaning of life.,Reference:,In 1948,Martin L.King Jr.Gave a speech about THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION in Morehouse College.,He said:It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society:the one is utility（实用）and the other is culture.Education must enable a man to become more efficient,to achieve with increasing facility（技能）the legitimate（合法的）goals of his life.Education must also train one for quick,resolute and effective thinking.The function of education,therefore,is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.,5.What is good teacher in your heart?Tips:Patient;easy-going;responsible forCan explain complex things in easy way;warm-hearted,According to the author,educators must prepare students for future,not only for career success but also for something much more important than a job.To make the point clear,the author tells of a cartoon where businessmen are having difficulty telling“right from wrong”.,Warming-up,6.Watch and Guess,Watch the following two video clips and guess:What information can you get about Miranda?,What did Andrea(Andy)Sachs probably major in as a university student?,Warming-up,What information can you get about Miranda?,What did Andrea(Andy)Sachs probably major in as a university student?,leading a busy life;having a job related to fashion;bossy,She probably majored in journalism as a university student.,Tips:A good teacher should not only be patient,learned,but also prepare the young students for their future.That is to say,to prepare for that days their students realize the meaning of life.It is a fact that the meaning of life does not dawn upon young people easily,so schools must help students gain an insight into the outside world beyond their occupation,get far-sighted and be able to see the relationship between individual things.,7.Role-play.The trustworthiness should be one of the aims of education,if you have an interview and are asked to give a lesson to a group of pupils or college students about trustworthiness,what will you prepare for it?Try to pole-play it with your classmates.,8.Passage.Love your life Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗,However mean your life is,meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.,I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.,不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。,Thank you,
