Unit-3-Section-A新视野大学英语第三册.ppt

Unit 1 Life Is Full of Choices Contents Summary of the clips and reference for discussion In this clip, the lady is talking about a nice way to encourage people to get out to socialize more. According to her, it is too easy to become lazy after a long day’s work. People usually go back home, turn on the TV, take shoes off and just relax. It is a passive choice of relaxing. But if you make an effort to go out, you will have a good time. For example, you can go to have a dinner in a nice restaurant, and you might even make new friends there. That will be an active way of relaxing. Your life can be different. All depends on your choice. Para 3-5 Michael replied, Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to see it as a type of learning. I choose to learn from it, to see it almost as a victory. ? Yeah, right. It isnt that easy, I said. “Yes, it is,” Michael said. “Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. The bottom line is: It‘s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Michael said.?  Para 67 Soon after that, I left the big company where I had worked for years to start my own business. I lost touch with Michael, but I thought about him almost weekly as I tried to live the best life I could. Several years later, I heard that Michael had been involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with metal rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident and asked how he was. He replied, If I were any better, Id be twins. Would you like to see my scars? I didnt want to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone