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1、Unit 8 Two Truths to Live By新世紀高等院校英語專業(yè)本科系列教材（修訂版）綜合教程第六冊(第2版) 電子教案上海外語教育出版社南京信息工程大學(xué) 劉杰海第1頁Contents pageContents Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement第2頁ObjectivesLearning ObjectivesRhetorical skill: parallelism in imp

2、erative sentencesKey language & grammar pointsWriting strategies: descriptive narrationTheme: life itself is a paradox第3頁Pre-R: picture activation-1Picture Activation | Pre-questionsSomething you want emerges, would you capture it or let it go?第4頁Pre-R: Pre-questions-11. Just as said in the film For

3、rest 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 another

4、perspective can give us another kind of feeling. Please share one such example in your life with your fellow students.Picture Activation | Pre-questionsOpen for discussion.第5頁Pre-R: Pre-questions-22. Life is a process in which you gain and lose in turn. Nowadays, we wont be so surprised to hear that

5、 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 life.Pic

6、ture Activation | Pre-questionsOpen for discussion.第6頁G-R: text introductionThis 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 let go” i

7、s as important as “to hold fast” in our lives.Text Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure第7頁G-R: CN- rabbisrabbi (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 Torah. Text I

8、ntroduction | Culture Notes | Author | Structure第8頁G-R: author bioAlexander M. Schindler (1925), 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. Rabbi Schindle

9、rs 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 Introduction | Culture

10、Notes | Author | Structure第9頁G-R: structureText Introduction | Culture Notes | Author | StructurePart 1(Para 1) The author points out that life itself is a paradoxPart 2(Para 2-9) to hold fast to life: what, when and howPart 3(Para 10-13) to let go: how and whyPart 4(Para 14-15) a solution to the pa

11、radox: a wider perspectivePart 5(Para 16-17) how to make our lives meaningful第10頁DR-p1-textTWO TRUTHS TO LIVE BY Alexander M. Schindler1.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 while it ordains their even

12、tual 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第11頁DR-p2-3 text2.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.

13、 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 not see that beauty when i

14、t flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.Detailed Reading第12頁DR-p4-5 text4.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.One morning, I had to have

15、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第13頁DR-p6-7 text6.As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the ligh

16、t 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 been indifferent to the grandeur

17、 of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.Detailed Reading第14頁DR-p8-9 text8.The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too heedless of them.9.

18、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第15頁DR-p10-11 text10.Hold fast to life . but not so fast that you cannot let go. This

19、 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 full force of our passionate bein

20、g 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第16頁DR-p12 text12.At every stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the wo

21、mb 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 gradual or not so gradual waning of o

22、ur 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第17頁DR-p13-14 text13.But why should we be reconciled to lifes contradictory dema

23、nds? 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 on eternity. Once we do that, we rea

24、lize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.Detailed Reading第18頁DR-p15-16 text15.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. The institutions we build endure, and

25、 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 objects that will only turn to dust an

26、d ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.Detailed Reading第19頁DR-p17 text17.Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a

27、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 redeemed, forever free of need and strif

28、e and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.Detailed Reading第20頁DR:p1 AnalysisParagraph 1 AnalysisThe 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 gifts and let go of them in time, which

29、 is explained by the rabbis analogy.Detailed Reading第21頁DR:p2-3 AnalysisParagraphs 2-3 AnalysisIn 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 on to it. As a result it is often too

30、 late when we finally realize it. Detailed Reading第22頁DR:p4-5 AnalysisParagraphs 4-5 AnalysisFrom 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第23頁DR:p6-7 AnalysisParagraphs 6-7 An

31、alysisThese 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第24頁DR:p8-9 AnalysisParagraphs 8-9 Analysi

32、sIn 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第25頁DR:p10-11 AnalysisParagraphs 10-11 AnalysisAfter explaining one side of lifes paradox how to hold fast

33、 to life, the author directs his discussion to the other side of the paradox how to let go.Detailed Reading第26頁DR:p12-13 AnalysisParagraphs 12-13 AnalysisThe author explains why we must accept losses and learn how to let go: it is the inevitabilities of life that we must endure from birth to death.

34、This truth is revealed by the author through the inevitable losses we suffer at every stage of life.Detailed Reading第27頁DR:p14-15 AnalysisParagraphs 14-15 AnalysisAs a solution to the paradox the author suggests a wider perspective to view what is transient and what is eternal. This perspective enab

35、les us to realize that “our lives are finite,” but our deeds, beauty and wonder on earth are timeless.Detailed Reading第28頁DR:p16-17 AnalysisParagraphs 16-17 AnalysisIn these two paragraphs the author, having convinced us about the paradox of life, gives us his advice as to what we should do in order

36、 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第29頁DR-Question-p1Why does the author quote the s

37、aying from the ancient rabbis?Detailed ReadingThe 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, but when he leaves this world, he ha

38、s to let go of it. 第30頁DR-Question-p3What is implied in the phrases “when it flowered . when it was tendered”?Detailed ReadingThe 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.第31頁DR-Question-p6Why does the author de

39、scribe the sunlight in such an emotional way?Detailed ReadingThe 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. 第32頁DR-Question-p14What does the author hope to convey with

40、 his remark about perishable life and enduring beauty?Detailed ReadingThe 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 will endure through them. Therefore

41、, we should let go of lifes gifts in due time.第33頁DR-Question-p16What does the author hope to convey with his remark about perishable life and enduring beauty?Detailed ReadingThe author hopes to convey the message that what we let go of is still there if we view life from the perspective of eternity

42、. 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.第34頁LPT- when to hold fast and when let go“when to hold fast and when to let go”Detailed ReadingParaphrase when to grasp something in your hand firml

43、y and when to release it第35頁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 ReadingParaphrase For life is a paradox: On one side, it encourages us to hold on to all those beautiful things it can

44、 offer us, on the other side, it commands us to let all of them go in the end. 第36頁LPT- paradoxparadox n.a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same timeHere, the author means that you need to hold fast to something that you must let go of eventu

45、ally.Detailed Reading第37頁LPT- enjoinenjoin vt.to strongly advise or order someone to doDetailed Readinge.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 us. 第38頁LPT- The rabbis of oldThe rab

46、bis of oldThe rabbis in ancient timesDetailed Reading第39頁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 ReadingParaphrase We must value every day we live, for it is surpris

47、ingly good, and from every little hole on the earth something beautiful springs up. 第40頁LPT- wondrouswondrous adj.impressive and beautiful or excitingDetailed Readinge.g.a wondrous sight/sound Our new improved face cream has wondrous effects on tired-looking skin.第41頁LPT- porepore n.one of the very

48、small holes in your skin that sweat can pass throughDetailed Readinge.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.第42頁LPT- only in our backward glanceonly in

49、our backward glanceonly as we examine our lives in retrospectDetailed Reading第43頁LPT- we remember a beauty that“We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned.” Detailed ReadingParaphrase Well always remember a beauty that dimmed or a love that diminished. 第44頁LPT- wanewane vt.if a feeling or po

50、wer wanes, it becomes weaker or less importantDetailed Readinge.g.By the late seventies the bands popularity was beginning to wane.Public interest in environmental issues tends to wane during a recession.第45頁LPT- The required machines were located“The required machines were located in a building at

51、the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.”Detailed ReadingParaphrase I was pushed across the courtyard on a gurney to the other side of the hospital where the necessary equipment was, in order to take some tests.第46頁LPT- wheelwheel vt.to move somethin

52、g that has wheels by pushing itDetailed Readinge.g.Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive care unit.Every time we have this argument you wheel out the same old statistics, and Im still not convinced!She wheeled round and slapped him in the face.第47頁LPT- the sunli

53、ght hit me“. the sunlight hit me.” Detailed ReadingParaphrase . the sunlight suddenly shone upon me with force. Notice the word “hit”. It carries the meaning of affecting someone with considerable force. 第48頁LPT- thats all there was to my experience“Thats all there was to my experience.”Detailed Rea

54、dingParaphrase That is the only thing I experienced at that moment the sunlight.第49頁LPT- then I remembered how often“Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.

55、”Detailed ReadingParaphrase Then I remembered how often I, too, had ignored the magnificence of each day, since I was too busy with insignificant and even unpleasant things.第50頁LPT- preoccupypreoccupy vt. (preoccupation n.)if something preoccupies you, you think about it a lot, or it uses a lot of y

56、our timeDetailed Readinge.g.Shes been very preoccupied recently because her mother has been very ill.My main preoccupation now is trying to keep life normal for the sake of my two boys第51頁LPT- pettypetty adj. (pettiness n.)not important and not worth worrying aboutDetailed Readinge.g.Dont be so pett

57、y!It was the pettiness of their arguments that irritated her.第52頁LPT- splendorsplendor n.the beautiful and impressive features of somethingDetailed Readinge.g.They bought a decaying 16th century manor house and restored it to its original splendor.So many writers have described the splendors of Veni

58、ce.第53頁LPT- the insight gleaned from that“The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too heedless of them.” Detailed ReadingParaphrase What we have learned from that experience is, in fact, nothing unusual: Life

59、 is full of wonderful experiences, but we seldom give them the attention they deserve.第54頁LPT- gleanglean vt.to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or watching or listening carefullyDetailed Readinge.g.Theyre leaving on Tuesday I managed to glean that much from them.Their decisions

60、 were based on financial information gleaned from the Internet.第55頁LPT- commonplacecommonplace adj.not unusualDetailed Readinge.g.Home computers are increasingly commonplace.It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home.第56頁LPT- heedlessheedless adj.someone who is heedless of advice d