现代大学英语精读4lesson6_extension.ppt

* Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs Part Five ENTER B T L E W Extension Oral work ? Quotes? Translation? Poem: They Were Welcome To Their Belief Supplementary reading Quiz B T L E W Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs Oral Work Give some examples of funny or bizarre childhood beliefs, collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. Differences between thinking with beliefs and thinking without beliefs B T L E W Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs II. Quotes (on Irony) The End of group discussion. B T L E W The trouble with most folks is not so much their ignorance, as their knowing so many things which aint so. Josh Billings He who cannot reason is a fool; he who will not is a bigot; he who dare not is a slave. W. Drummond Every argument that has been used to justify the teaching of grammar may be applied with greater cogency to the teaching of logic. If it is desirable that a person shall speak correctly, it is much more desirable that he shall think correctly. Ballard the following three quotations are from A. E. Manders book, Logic for the Millions. Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs IV. Poem B T L E W Robert Frost - They Were Welcome To Their Belief Grief may have thought it was grief. Care may have thought it was care. They were welcome to their belief, The overimportant pair. No, it took all the snows that clung To the low roof over his bed, Beginning when he was young, To induce the one snow on his head. To be continued on the next page. Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs To be continued on the next page. IV. Poem B T L E W But whenever the roof camme white The head in the dark below Was a shade less the color of night, A shade more the color of snow. Grief may have thought it was grief. Care may have thought it was care. But neither one was the thief Of his raven color of hair. Lesson 6-Groundless Beliefs About the poet Fros