外教社新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列（修订版）：综合教程（第3版） 第3册 PPT课件unit9.pptx

;Section One;Interpret and comment on the following quotations.;Perhaps one of the best ways is to make constant efforts to better ourselves day by day. And if possible, we should distill and keep the scent of the flower of life through our offspring, kind deeds, enlightening thoughts and works that defy mortality. If so, we might still live in a way even though we cease to be. Nevertheless, we should not be overdriven by the above notion, or else we might find ourselves in the predicament of the inability to disentangle our time from overscheduled business. Instead, we should leave sufficient leisure to savor the full flavor of life in each stage.;2. ;1. Walden Pond;The writer, transcendentalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of the pond for two years starting in the summer of 1845. His account of the experience was recorded in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, and made the spot famous.;“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.” ( from Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”) Now the Walden Pond has the cultural embodiment of leaving the busy city life and immersion into the nature so as to pursue one’s own self. ;2. HMO;3. Susan B. Anthony’s birthday;Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.;1. 2.;General analysis of the text;time and shortening the work week. Another, which is more important and more difficult to achieve, is to adopt a new perspective of time. Only through this can we be back to our original journey to pursue happiness.;1. The well-knit structure of the text, together with its clear logic, helps the author to conv