高级英语第六册修改版Lesson Three Power of Habit课件.ppt

Lesson Three ;;Proverbs with Habit;Habit is a shirt that we wear till death. ( Russian Proverb) Habits dont expire until the soul expires. ( Turkish Proverb) To change ones habits has a smell of death. ( Portuguese Proverb);A habit is a repeated pattern of behavior that LITERALLY changes our brain and creates a “neural pathway” in our nervous system. ;Old saying: “It’s just like riding a bike” (which of course means that even 20 years from now you could get back on a bike and all the movements would come right back to you. ) The habits we form grow out of the environment in which we live and the acts we do, or the thoughts we think, over and over again. Once the habit is formed you will repeat it automatically over and over without any conscious thought; the only time it usually enters you mind is after you have preformed the habit.;The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.? ~Samuel Johnson ;The second half of a mans life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.? ~Feodor Dostoevski ;About the Author;Henry James;Detailed Study of the Text;It has become second nature with him to look twice after locking the door at night. She’s the kind of person who isn’t very good at going nothing, someone to whom work is a second nature.;The Duke of Wellington;Battle of Waterloo; Battle of Waterloo, final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. An allied army of British, Dutch, Belgian, and German units, joined by Prussian troops, assembled near Waterloo and defeated Napoleon’s a