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1、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
2、 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 li
3、fe 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 y
4、ou were given the second chance to choose your major for your college study, what would you select and why?,Tips accounting, computer science, psychology, civil engineering, philosophy, medical technology popular, interesting, enjoyable, promising, practical, meaningful, beneficial, well-paid,Warmin
5、g-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
6、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 knowledge Broaden horizon Distinguish right from wrong See the connections between things Satisfy peoples desire for career success Make people be far-si
7、ghted Teach 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
8、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
9、 think critically.,5.What is good teacher in your heart? Tips: Patient; easy-going; responsible for Can explain complexthings 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 j
10、ob. 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 probablymajor in as a
11、university student?,Warming-up, What information can you get about Miranda?, What did Andrea (Andy) Sachs probablymajor 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
12、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 o
13、utside 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 trustw
14、orthiness, 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-fin
15、der 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 sprin
16、g.,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
17、 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.,
