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1、Unit 8 Two Truths to Live By,新世纪高等院校英语专业本科系列教材（修订版）综合教程第六册(第2版) 电子教案,上海外语教育出版社南京信息工程大学刘杰海,Contents page,Contents,Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement,Objectives,Learning Objectives,Rhetorical skill: parallelism in

2、imperative sentences Key language & grammar points Writing strategies: descriptive narration Theme: life itself is a paradox,Pre-R: picture activation-1,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Something you want emerges, would you capture it or let it go?,Pre-R: Pre-questions-1,1. Just as said in the fil

3、m Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes, we do complain about the unfairness of life when it turns its back on us. However, life does endow us with many unexpected surprises. It depends on how we deal with it. Looking at one thing from ano

4、ther perspective can give us another kind of feeling. Please share one such example in your life with your fellow students.,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Open for discussion.,Pre-R: Pre-questions-2,2. Life is a process in which you gain and lose in turn. Nowadays, we wont be so surprised to hea

5、r that someone would resign from a job with bright prospects, and decide to start a voyage around the world or go to the poorest areas to be a volunteer. If you are required to give up something for something else, how would you make the choice? And why? Think of one or two such instances in your li

6、fe.,Picture Activation | Pre-questions,Open for discussion.,G-R: text introduction,This essay discusses one of the paradoxes in life: “to let go” and “to hold fast.” The author tries to explain the importance of cherishing beauty when it is offered and to let it go when it is inevitable. Thus “to le

7、t go” is as important as “to hold fast” in our lives.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: CN- rabbis,rabbi (paragraph 1) In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew, meaning “My Master“ which is the way a student would address a master of Tor

8、ah.,Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure,G-R: author bio,Alexander M. Schindler (19252000), Chairman of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (19731996), leader of the Reform Movement of American Judaism for more than two decades and a pivotal figure in 20th century Judaism. R

9、abbi Schindlers papers contain contemporary perspectives on many, if not most, of the key social and cultural issues facing American Jewry and American society from the 1960s to the 1990s. This text is an excerpt from his speech at the commencement of the University of South Carolina.,Text Introduct

11、 a solution to the paradox: a wider perspective,Part 5,(Para 16-17) how to make our lives meaningful,DR-p1-text,TWO TRUTHS TO LIVE BY Alexander M. Schindler 1. The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even whil

12、e it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.”,Detailed Reading,DR-p2-3 text,2. Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through e

13、very pore of the earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. 3. We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did n

14、ot see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.,Detailed Reading,DR-p4-5 text,4. A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and was in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. 5.

15、One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.,Detailed Reading,DR-p6-7 text,6. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to m

16、y experience. Just the light of the sun, and yet how beautiful it was how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant! 7. I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had bee

17、n indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.,Detailed Reading,DR-p8-9 text,8. The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but w

18、e are too heedless of them. 9. Here then is the first pole of lifes paradoxical demands on us: Never be too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.,Detailed Reading,DR-p10-11 text,10. Hold fast to life . but not so fa

19、st that you cannot let go. This is the second side of lifes coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. 11. This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the

20、full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.,Detailed Reading,DR-p12 text,12. At every stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent live

21、s only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the grad

22、ual or not so gradual waning of our own strength. And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.,Detailed Reading,DR-p13-14 text,13. But why should we be recon

23、ciled to lifes contradictory demands? Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is evanescent? Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our grasp? 14. In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open o

24、n eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.,Detailed Reading,DR-p15-16 text,15. Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. Th

25、e institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. 16. Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating o

26、bjects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.,Detailed Reading,DR-p17 text,17. Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth t

27、o a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, exalt them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind red

28、eemed, forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.,Detailed Reading,DR:p1 Analysis,Paragraph 1 Analysis The theme of the essay is explicitly stated in the first sentence. The author points out that life itself is a paradox: We should cling to its gi

29、fts and let go of them in time, which is explained by the rabbis analogy.,Detailed Reading,DR:p2-3 Analysis,Paragraphs 2-3 Analysis In these two paragraphs, the author explains one side of lifes paradox and points out that we often fail to see the beauty and wonder of life when we should be holding

30、on to it. As a result it is often too late when we finally realize it.,Detailed Reading,DR:p4-5 Analysis,Paragraphs 4-5 Analysis From Paragraph 4 to Paragraph 7 the author relates one event during his hospitalization that re-teaches him the truth (when and how to hold fast to life).,Detailed Reading

31、,DR:p6-7 Analysis,Paragraphs 6-7 Analysis These two paragraphs describe the immediate impact of the sunlight on the author as he was wheeled across the courtyard. It suddenly dawned on him how beautiful and precious life was and how indifferent people were to the gift of life.,Detailed Reading,DR:p8

32、-9 Analysis,Paragraphs 8-9 Analysis In these short paragraphs the author sums up the truth revealed to him in the event and urges us to hold fast to the gifts of life. (Notice the imperative mood in Paragraph 9).,Detailed Reading,DR:p10-11 Analysis,Paragraphs 10-11 Analysis After explaining one side

33、 of lifes paradox how to hold fast to life, the author directs his discussion to the other side of the paradox how to let go.,Detailed Reading,DR:p12-13 Analysis,Paragraphs 12-13 Analysis The author explains why we must accept losses and learn how to let go: it is the inevitabilities of life that we

34、 must endure from birth to death. This truth is revealed by the author through the inevitable losses we suffer at every stage of life.,Detailed Reading,DR:p14-15 Analysis,Paragraphs 14-15 Analysis As a solution to the paradox the author suggests a wider perspective to view what is transient and what

35、 is eternal. This perspective enables us to realize that “our lives are finite,” but our deeds, beauty and wonder on earth are timeless.,Detailed Reading,DR:p16-17 Analysis,Paragraphs 16-17 Analysis In these two paragraphs the author, having convinced us about the paradox of life, gives us his advic

36、e as to what we should do in order to make our lives meaningful and our deeds “timeless,” that is, instead of pursuing perishable objects and material wealth, we should pursue ideals and add love, righteousness, truth, religion, and justice to our material possessions.,Detailed Reading,DR-Question-p

37、1,Why does the author quote the saying from the ancient rabbis?,Detailed Reading,The author intends to use the metaphor to illustrate the paradox. “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open” means that a man holds fast to the gift of life when he is born, b

38、ut when he leaves this world, he has to let go of it.,DR-Question-p3,What is implied in the phrases “when it flowered . when it was tendered”?,Detailed Reading,The two phrases mean that one should hold fast to beauty and love at the right time when they are full of sweetness and being offered.,DR-Qu

39、estion-p6,Why does the author describe the sunlight in such an emotional way?,Detailed Reading,The author uses these words to describe the impact of the sunlight on him, that is, his sudden realization as to how beautiful life is and how heedless of its beauty we often are.,DR-Question-p14,What does

40、 the author hope to convey with his remark about perishable life and enduring beauty?,Detailed Reading,The author hopes to convey the message that what we let go of is still there if we view life from the perspective of eternity. The beauty and goodness and truth that we create will endure and we wi

41、ll endure through them. Therefore, we should let go of lifes gifts in due time.,DR-Question-p16,What does the author hope to convey with his remark about perishable life and enduring beauty?,Detailed Reading,The author hopes to convey the message that what we let go of is still there if we view life

42、 from the perspective of eternity. The beauty and goodness and truth that we create will endure and we will endure through them. Therefore, we should let go of lifes gifts in due time.,LPT- when to hold fast and when let go,“when to hold fast and when to let go”,Detailed Reading,Paraphrase, when to

43、grasp something in your hand firmly and when to release it,LPT- for life is a paradox,“For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.”,Detailed Reading,Paraphrase, For life is a paradox: On one side, it encourages us to hold on to

44、 all those beautiful things it can offer us, on the other side, it commands us to let all of them go in the end.,LPT- paradox,paradox n. a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same time Here, the author means that you need to hold fast to somethi

45、ng that you must let go of eventually.,Detailed Reading,LPT- enjoin,enjoin vt. to strongly advise or order someone to do,Detailed Reading,e.g.,The proposed law enjoins employers to give workers time off to care for sick children and ageing parents. He enjoined caution about believing what they told

46、us.,LPT- The rabbis of old,The rabbis of old The rabbis in ancient times,Detailed Reading,LPT- surely we ought to hold fast to life,“Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of the earth.”,Detailed Reading,Paraphrase, We must value

47、 every day we live, for it is surprisingly good, and from every little hole on the earth something beautiful springs up.,LPT- wondrous,wondrous adj. impressive and beautiful or exciting,Detailed Reading,e.g.,a wondrous sight/sound Our new improved face cream has wondrous effects on tired-looking ski

48、n.,LPT- pore,pore n. one of the very small holes in your skin that sweat can pass through,Detailed Reading,e.g.,Sweat passes through the pores and cools the body down. Pimples form when pores become blocked with dirt. The border in this region is porous and many refugees have simply walked across.,L

49、PT- only in our backward glance,only in our backward glance only as we examine our lives in retrospect,Detailed Reading,LPT- we remember a beauty that,“We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned.”,Detailed Reading,Paraphrase, Well always remember a beauty that dimmed or a love that diminished.,LPT- wane,wane vt. if a feeling or power wanes, it becomes weaker or less important,Detailed Reading,e.g.,By the late seventies the bands popularity

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