Unit8Attitudestowardslife对待生活的态度

1、 Unit 8 Attitudes towards life Teaching objectives: 1. Practice the reading skill: Identify the organizational patterns. 2. Vocabulary: 1)fortify, elicit, considerable, regardless of, elevate, literally, well-being, accountable, considerate, adversity, batter, reverse, penetrate, self-esteem, doom,

2、emerge; 2)preach, strenuous, arena, blessing, mess up, devastating, common denominator, odds, stack, motivate, falter I. Text II Dare Mighty Things Topic: attitudes toward life Main idea: A winning attitude in life is very important for ones success. Organizational pattern: Example and illustration

3、II. Text I The Power of Personal Attitudes Topic: Attitudes toward life Main idea: Adopting a positive attitude in life can result in a good response from life while adopting a negative attitude will lead you to the reverse. Organizational pattern: 1) example and illustration 2) comparison Peoples w

4、rong attitudes towards life and how to live happily I dreamed I had an interview with GOD.“ “So you would like to interview me?” GOD asked. “If you have the time,” I said. GOD smiled. “My time is eternity what questions do you have in mind for me?” “What surprises you most about humankind?” GOD answ

5、ered. “That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.” “That they lose their health to make money. and then lose their money to restore their health.” “That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, so that they live in neither th

6、e present nor the future.” “That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.” GODs hand took mine and we were silent for a while. And then I asked “As a parent, what are some of lifes lessons you want your children to learn?” “To learn they cannot make anyone love th

7、em. All they can do is let themselves be loved.” “To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.” “To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.” “To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.” “To learn

8、 that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.” “To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply do not yet know how to express or show their feelings.” “To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.” “To learn that it i

9、s not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.” “Thank you for your time,” I said humbly. “Is there anything else youd like your children to know?” GOD smiled and said. “Just know that I am here.” Attitudes towards life Recently I came across one sentence, which i

10、mpressed my soul deeply, when I thumbed through a magazine. It is an old saying handed down by Jews from generation to generation, which says, A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand open. It is a universal truth that we have nothing at the instance when we emerg

11、e from the womb. What is life? Life is a process that we fight for the nature, even sometimes, ourselves. To fulfill our ambitions, we exert ourselves to create and grasp the opportunities that maybe just come to our lives only once. However, it is not easy for us to accomplish our dreams, as we all

12、 known, barriers always stand in the way of our dreams, so many people would get lost in life, not knowing what to do, and they would never reach their potential. Life is doomed to be very hard and full of competitions and challenges. For the world is not a pleasant place to live, additionally, life

13、 is much tougher than we expect, it is also very essential for us to learn how to let the losses and sufferings go. Once we have a faith, try to follow it and contribute our passion to it. Try to hold the twinkle shining stars that rooted deeply within our hearts, believe the fact that they will lea

14、d us to see the ray of the sunlight one day. Never give up even though we will make many mistakes that may let us down, bravely accept and smile at the disapprovals that other people would make on our choices. No matter how hard our lives would be, we do believe we can acquire many valuable experien

15、ces from tolerance. Have a faith that the destination is not distant. As a human being you may have the choice of three basic attitudes towards life. First, the vegetable You may approach life with the philosophy of the vegetable, in which case your life will include being born, eating, drinking, sl

16、eeping, marrying, growing old , and dying. Second, the business The second basic attitude is to look at life as if it were a business. A great many so-called successful men and women believe that life is a business, and they arrange their conducts and behavior accordingly. If you believe that life i

17、s a business, your first question of life, naturally, is what do I get out of it /How much is this worth to me /In a word, based on this attitude, happiness becomes a matter of successful competition. The great majority of human beings today look at life as if it were a business. Their basic philoso

18、phy is one of competition and efficiency. Third, the artist The third attitude toward life is the approach of the artist. Here the basic philosophy is What can I put into it ,and the basic relation of the individual to his fellow-men is one of co-operation and common sense. This point of view has been p