现代大学英语第一册 unit 1 Half a Day课件.pptVIP

Half a Day  Naguib Mahfouz Warm-up About the author education and background important works how he pictures the world Text appreciation structure analysis topic discussion Language understanding sentence paraphrase word study Some quotations 1. If you want to make good use of your time, youve got to know whats most important and then give it all youve got. --Lee Iacocca 2. Nothing is worth more than this day. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3. Every second is of infinite value. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. --Will Rogers Some quotations 5. Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michael angelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 6. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. --William Penn Warm-up All the groups are required to do a role-play about your first day at college. Any creative form of activities is welcome, such as group discussion, interview, TV program, talk show, group performance, etc. It is better to fly your imagination to act out the vivid scene. Some questions for reference (1) Was it hard for you to leave home for the first time in your life? Who saw you off at the railway/bus station?Who came to school with you? What did he/she say to you on the way? (2) What do you think is the business of university? What do you expect to learn here? (3) Did you feel you were a stranger the first day you arrived? (4) Did you find the university just as you had imagined? In what way was it as you imagined, and in what way wasn’t it? (5) Do you find life at college rich and colorful or tedious and boring?Do you have trouble adjusting to life here? (6) What do you think you should do to get the most out of college? Naguib Mahfouz  Camp David 戴维营（Camp D