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Lesson 10 – Diogenes and Alexander

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I. Oral Work

II. Quiz

III.Writing

IV. Listening Lab


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I.I. Oral WorkOral Work

List: 1. Group discussion

2. Sayings about life

3. Debating

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Introduce your life philosophy to the group.

What do you think can contribute to a happy life?

What’s the point of our existence? What can we get from it?

Can you give us some tips on how to live simply and happily?

List out the virtues that man should value in his life.

Brainstorm in groups.

The end of Group discussion.

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• Life is a sum of your choices.• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.• There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an

unimportant day.• Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to

love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

• You cannot do anything about the length of life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

List some Chinese sayings about life.

Translation

To be continued on the next page.

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• 生活就是选择。• 为他人活着，生命才有价值。• 珍惜生命的每一天，因为它比任何东西都重要。• 快乐地对待生活吧，因为它你才有机会去爱，去工作，

去享乐，去仰望星空。• 生命是有限的，潜力是无限的。

The end of Sayings about life .

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Topics for debating:

1. Simple life brings happiness.

2. The only thing people are interested in nowadays is earning more money.

Related sayings


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I.I. Oral WorkOral Work• It’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years.

• The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.

• People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.

• Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.


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• Life is not measured by the number of

breaths we take, but by the moments

that take our breath away.

• Live life so completely that when

death comes to you like a thief in the

night, there will be nothing left for

him to steal.

• Life is the art of drawing without an

eraser.

The end of Debating.

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II.II. Quiz Quiz

List:

1. Quiz 1

2. Quiz 2

3. Quiz 3

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II.II. Quiz 1Quiz 1All that glitters is not gold. No cross, no crown.

Forgive and forget. Money makes a mare go.

A golden key opens every door.All are not thieves that

dogs bark at.

One misfortune rides onanother’s back.

We have only a short life to live.

Every bird likes its own nest. Let bygones be bygones.

Life is but a span. Hardship never comes

alone.

No pains, no gains. East or west, home is best.

Match the items in the two columns.

The end of Quiz 1.

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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

1. His doctor prescribed some foods that can _____

needed protein and vitamins to the diet.

a. facilitate b. furnish c. supply d. equip

2. The troops _____ the area before the civilians

were allowed to return.

a. secured b. ensured c. stored d. provided

c a


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

3. She ____ her family by working in a hospital.

a. provides against b. provides for

c. provides with d. provides to

4. You may keep the book a further week ____ no

one else requires it.

a. provided that b. if only

c. in case d. even if

b a


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

5.He has ____ his small company into a corporate giant.

a. varied b. altered c. converted d. transformed

6. I want to ____ some Hong Kong dollars into American dollars.

a. modify b. turn c. convert d. transform

d c


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

7. The river ____ through beautiful country.a. strolls b. wanders

c. saunters d. patrols

8. At night these busy streets during the day become ____ of traffic.

a. vacant b. empty c. hollow d. blank

b b


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

9. Theirs is at best a ____ form of flattery. a. vacant b. void

c. hollow d. sunken

10. Don't walk on that broken glass with ____ feet.

a. bare b. barrenc. sterile d. nude

c a


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11. On no account ____ feed the animals.

a. are the visitors allowed to

b. the visitors are allowed to

c. are allowed the visitors to

d. the visitors are to allowed

12. Scarcely ____ lost his temper.

a. never he has b. never has he

c. ever has he d. he has ever


II.II. Quiz 2 Quiz 2

a c


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

13. Not until yesterday ____ his mind. a. he changed b. he didn’t change c. he did change d. did he change

14. No sooner ____ he was asked to leave again.

a. he had arrived than b. he arrived when c. had he arrived than d. when he arrived

d c


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

15. Jack is ____ hardworking than his sister, but he failed in the exam.

a. not less b. no less c. not more d. no more 16. His humour was ____ make everyone in the room burst

out laughing. a. so as to b. such as to

c. so that d. such that

b b


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

17. A pen is to a writer, ____ a gun is to a fighter.

a. as b.like c. that d. what

18. He is a good man and is known ____ to everyone. a. such as b. as that

c. as such d. so that

d c


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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 219. ____ the spirit is exhausted by overwork, ____ it is d

estroyed by idleness. a. So…that b. Such…that c. Such…as d. As…so

20. That trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’t bothered by his loudness ___ by his lack of talent. a. than b. rather

c. as d. so much as

d d

The end of Quiz 2.

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1. There was a ________ expression on the child’s face. (content)

2. This part of the country is sparsely _________. (inhabit)

3. She talked to me without _______. (restrain)

4. He was responsible for ________ the supplies for the army. (procure)

5. He was accused of ________ his visa. (false)

6. He had _______ enough money to buy food. (bare)

II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3

Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

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contented

inhabited

restraint

procuring

falsifying

barely

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III.III. Writing Writing

On life

1. What is the true meaning of life?

2. The impact of globalization on Chinese values.

3. A comparison study of Chinese philosophy and western philosophy on life.

The end of Writing.

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IV.IV. Listening Lab Listening Lab The Art of Living

—J.B. Priestley

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a ______: it enjoins us to _______ to its many gifts even while it ordains their _______ relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his _______ clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.”

Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is _______, and full

of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too

Fill out the blanks while you are listening.


paradoxcling

eventual

fist

wondrous

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—J.B.Priestley often we ________ this truth only in our backward glance whe

n we remember what was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.

We remember a beauty that ______, a love that _________. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was ________.

A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in ________ care for several days. It was not a pleasant place.


recognize

fadedwaned

tendered

intensive

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—J.B. Priestley Hold fast to life but not so fast that you cannot let go. This i

s the second side of life’s coin, the opposite ________ of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.

This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to ________, that whatever we desire with the full force of our __________ being can, may, will, be ours. But then life moves along to ______ us with realities, and slowly but surely this truth ________ ________us.


pole

command

passionateconfront

dawns upon

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—J.B. Priestley

At every stage of life we _______ losses, —and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we _______ from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a __________ of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our _______. We face the gradual or not so gradual waning of our _______.


sustain

emergeprogression

spouses

strength

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—J.B. Priestley And ultimately, as the _______ of the open and close

d hand suggests, we must confront the _________ of our own demise, losing ourselves as it _______, all that we were or dreamed to be.

The end of Listening Lab.

parable

inevitability

were

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