小组讨论话题新编大学英语三.docx

小组讨论话题(新编大学英语Book 2)（topics for Group Work） a. Motherly love and fatherly loveH:Hi,money,you looks so happy,what happened ?Q:Nothing, just because the day after tomorrow is my fathers birthday, Im going to buy a present spcially for him to show my appreciation of his loving. And also I will sing a song to him.H: Clovel, What do you think about Motherly love and fatherly love.J: My father is very strict with me, but my mother is very kind, she never urge me to do things that I dont like to do. Therefore, I believe that Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. The love from father is quite different, it is conditional.Z:No,I dont think so .At least ,in my family, my father never asks me to do anything that I dont want to do, In addition, he pays more attention to my health and study.What about you mony?Q: As far as Im concerned,A new page in the book of my life have turned since my parents gave a birth. Athough ,there great differences between fatherly love and motherly love. It is no deny that everything they do for us just for one aim which is good for us.H: yeah, I argee with you. The blood circulating in our flesh coms from our parents. It cant be changed during long river of our lives. Love of mother is vital for us as well as unconditional. As we know,it not because we can load their expectations,just owing to the nature. Fatherly love is conditional sometimes , we are the part of their lives, Its principle is “I love you because you fulfill my expections, because you do your duty, because you are like me.”In the word ,I love my parents just like they love me.b. Romantic stories H: money, what is the time now, youre not going home? Q: Whats the hurry, it is still early!H: Do you know what day it is today?Q: I do not know. What day is it?H: Today is”7-7”. Chinese Valentines Day!Q: Really? I know nothing about that,you know, why is it today?H,Z,J:yes,we all know.H: It is a long story. J: Everyone know that, I think,Simply speaking, according to legend there was a Queen Mother of the western heavens, who used the Milky Way galaxy to separate Niulang (Cow Boy) and Zhinv (Weaving Lady)from each other. They are only allowed to meet each other once a year on the evening of July 7 lunar calendar. This is the beginning of the Valentines Day.Z: How do they meet each other? H: During this evening, magpies will fly to the sky and create a bridge for them. They meet on the bridge as a result the bridge is called” magpie bridge.Q: Oh! What a romantic story!H: Thereafter girls began to prepare various exquisite small itemsto beg for deftness in this festival in the hope of obtaining love and happiness.Q: I see. I am going home now because the Cow boy is waiting for me. Goodbye!H: Hey! Do not forget to lead a good Festival! Z:To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. They are all so lucky to have found the soulmate in their life.Inclding NuLang and ZhiNv.a. Winners in my eyes.H: Oh, no! Im in shortage of money again. How much I want to be a successful person, earn a lot of money and never need to worry about money.Q: So I think that you should be a winner in your life at first .Z: Is there any relationship between these two things?Q: Yeah, of course. To be a rich person you should first be a winner .Z: What does that mean ?J: It means that if you want to be a rich person , you should first overcome all the shortages existed in your life , that is to say , to win yourself and be a winner .Am I right ?Q: Yes , you are right . I think a winner is one who can win himself .H: Yeah , I also think so . A winner is a person who arrange his life in strict discipline , and do as how he planned carefully . Then he can earn success , and be a successful person .Q: Ye , I do not completely agree with you . I think do your best to work for what your want to own , no matter succeed or failed , never feel you are of no use or give up , then you are a winner .Z: I think what you have said just now are indeed the characters of the winners , but they are only part of them.J: Yes , it requires a lot to be a winner ,Just that is not enough . We should always improve ourselves and to be a winner.H:Because of.b. Do you agree that “Better late than never”?H: What took you so long? Ive been waiting for you for ages!J: Sorry! I missed the bus and had to walk here.H:Oh well, never mind. Better late than never!J:And Im so sorry that I forget you birthday gift yesterday, I take it with me now.H: it doesnt matter, better latethan never.Z:This popular idiom is used to say that it is better to do something late than not do it at all. People often use it when someone arrives late for a meeting, but it can also be used, for example, when an email or a letter arrives late, when someone finishes some work after the deadline has passed, or when a person finally gets around to doing something that theyve been putting off for a long time.Q: Yes better late than never, at least ,we do it. - its better to do what you are supposed to have done now, even though it is late, than to never