Directions: Students are tested in pairs. Each is supposed to make a mini presentation for about a minute and then the partner will ask him /her a question about it.
Unit 1
How can you get a balance between enjoying life now and preparing for the future?
能够想到以后的生活，未雨绸缪，是对自己负责的生活态度，但是千万不能太甚。人生最好的生活方式，就是一边计划未来，一边享受现在，即使只是小小的享受，也比终于熬成正果，坐拥豪宅，却只剩下一颗苍老的不会享受的心要好。
当日事当日做，把什么事都放到明天的人，最终什么事都干不成。
cherishing the present
How would you define happiness?
Happiness is contagious...when you reflect happiness, then all others around you catch the happy bug and are happy, too.
Happiness comes only from appreciating what you have right now. You can even be happy by appreciating your troubles because they are helping to build your character.
Happiness is not merely a life lived by accumulating moments of pleasure. On the contrary, happiness is a long lasting enduring enjoyment of life, it is being in love with living. It is your reward for achieving a good character and personal rational values in life. Some important values are a productive career, romance, friendship and hobbies.
Unit 2
Talk about what you were like as a child. Quite
When I was a child, I spent as much time indoors as I possibly could. my parents went to work,and I often stayed alone at home.on holidays ,my parents would take me out to parks and Mcdonald’s.So I have quite a lot of the toys from Mcdonalds.
I had some great friends.we did homework together ,played together and started to go shopping together and of course spend holidays together.those menories are very meaningful to me.
What places in your childhood do you have the happiest memories of? Why were you happy there?
Kindergarten. There was no pressure and mom and dad would come
to pick me up home every day. Our hearts were innocent then。We didn’t lie or hated each other.I loved that kind of peaceful and naive life. Unit 3
Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of live and recorded music.
Why do you think music is important and how does it affect different people?
Music is a powerful tool to express human emotions. Music lifts up your
soul and releases it。Music is what moves everyone, and without it, life would be pointless Music is important because it helps you express yourself in ways that you can’t with normal talking.”– S. L.
“Music is important to me because it gives me something to look forward to everyday.” – K. K.
“Music is important because it allows people to be creative and it offers more life to people.” – K.
I think music is important because music is a way that people can express themselves and if people couldn’t express themselves there would be a lot more violence in the world.” – A. S.
“Music, without it there would be silence, less joy, and darker times
So, how does music affect people
Memorize Anything Faster
It's best to make your own little tunes for items and not melodies already tied to lyrics to remember your lists. The tune of \"Happy Birthday\
occasions and memories and can't work as well as your own ditty for this week's grocery list. Try a rap, some rhymes or your own melody for a fun replacement to the old written list.
Most everyone understands how music becomes elegant in courtship and romance. A piece of music heard even once might be forever joined to a personal sense of place and powerful sense memories. What was your choice of wedding song as you walked the aisle? How was the theme of your high school prom played, by a live band or on a CD? What songs do you find most patriotic or most exciting or sad?
Music and Religion
Music can unlock and evoke powerful religious emotion. The church has a centuries-old history of music in worship. The medieval church recognized the ties between music and our emotions and composed might hymns of power and glory, many of them echoing the songs of the Bible including Miriam's song of deliverance following the parting of the sea and the angels who sang of Christ's birth and will trumpet the songs of the Second Coming.
The Apostle Paul suggested encouraging oneself or other Christians in corporate worship through song (Ephesians 5:19) and rabbinical tradition is consistent that rabbis (\"teachers\") are often also to be cantors (\"music worship leaders\") to guide their congregations through song. Indeed, most all litany and congregational worship in Judaism is set to beautiful vocal music. In Islam, the muezzin, the crier who invites Muslims to worship five times daily, must singsong his calls, and a skillful muezzin is said to have a haunting, saddened quality to his music.
Therapeutic Benefits
According to the American Music Therapy Association, music is curative and restorative for a wide variety of conditions, even as aid to help with physical rehabilitation and assisting those with disabilities. Music therapy can ease the pains of chemotherapy, lower anxiety or lift a depressed person's spirit, and as you may already know, help insomniacs get to sleep. As cited by the American Cancer Society, music is unable to cure cancer or chronic disease, but it can relieve aches and symptoms while augmenting a patient's joy and general wellbeing.
Autism Research Institute published a fascinating position paper demonstrating the clinical use of music in assisting autistic children with speech therapy. Key questions and
answers were set to music and over time, the music would no longer be required for the child to respond with the appropriate response to each question. Perhaps autism's links to latent math ability in children and the rhythmic, mathematical nature of sound combine to play a helpful role in this therapy.
With music therapy recognized today as a medical tool, colleges in most states and Canada are offering bachelor's degrees in the field as a result, and some are even pursuing careers in music thanatology to help hospice and terminal patients and their loved ones. One series of studies led to the name Mozart effect for the positive outcomes the famed composer's works had on stimulating activity in areas of the human brain.
In practical terms, you can apply some of music therapy's techniques for yourself. Savor music, discuss the meanings of lyrics with loved ones and write your own music or lyrics to tunes you love.
Music As Your Personal Energy Drink
You can use music to incite yourself to perform at a high level, using a favorite song to bring your energy and emotions to the front of your mind. You've heard or seen a chant at a sporting event, placing the athletes at a fever pitch, or a political rally bringing the crowd to their feet and clapping, but have you played a favorite song to get ready before embarking on a big project?
One fascinating study demonstrating how music does affect people was planned in response to a pool of office workers requesting a bit of music to make their days on the job more pleasant. Would their claim hold true that they could work better with music than without?
The typing word count of the secretarial pool showed little or no change between sessions with and without music. Pressure sensitive pads were then placed under the keys of their typewriters and it was discovered the keys were struck harder when the music played than when it wasn't. Staff worked harder to get the same job done, concentrating against the background music, and feeling more tired at the end of the day.
Yet a personal favorite song can stimulate your adrenalin and get you going fast. Remember the heroic tunes of composers John Barry and John Williams? Whether it's the theme from Dances With Wolves, Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark, adventure themes provoke powerful responses where we, too, feel like heroes ready to tackle anything. An estimated one-half the world's population has heard Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme, and listening to it in the car I always drive much faster!
Music can thus lift our spirits as we purposefully alter our state to an alert and excited one. Music may also soothe the savage breast as William Congreve wrote, but it's sometimes too strong medicine. Soft music played in the corridors, like painting walls pink, has been shown to mellow even hardened criminals in prison, but after some duration the incarcerated can become more aggressive than before.
Unit 4:
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of new technology and the traditional way of doing things.
科学技术给他们提供了良好的医疗条件 科技给他们提供了全新的家用电器
科技改善了他们的公共事业条件（如电力、天然气和电话等）。 科学技术有能力解决我们面临的大部分问题
无线电、网络技术等的发展，使人类之间的交流与沟通更为方便。 建造核电站、开展基因工程的研究和进行空间探索活动在世界上任何国家关于其利弊总是存在争论。这些都是需要投入大，但是存在某种程度风险的研究项目。对于基因工程的研究的看法引起了激烈的伦理观念上的争论
Factors you may consider when choosing a job.
Salary: Some people think this is the be-all end-all. It's not. Yes, money matters and your income will determine your lifestyle. However, if you have a job that you don't like with no benefits, personal days, flexibility, etc., then what's the point? Not having benefits can be costly in the long run.
Benefits: How much time will you get off for vacation? Personal days? Is there a subsidy for public transportation? 401(k) options? Flexible hours?
Location: How far is the commute? Is it in a safe location? Are there restaurants and a gym nearby? Will you have enough space to work?
Hours: Will you be working a standard number of hours? Over-time? If the job requires you to work over 50 hours a week, make sure you like it as that's where you'll be spending the majority of your time.
Co-workers: I've saved this for last and consider it one of the most important factors. These are the people that you will be spending most of the time with, more so than your family and friends (unless you already work with them). These people will run the gamut from being slackers to hard workers. The slackers will cause the most problems for you if you are a hard worker. Your boss may depend on you to pick up their slack, especially if it's at a place where it's difficult to fire employees (such as the government). If possible, try to find out who you will be working with before you get hired. You may be able to see a glimpse of their personality and/or their work habits. But understand that if the boss does not correct their poor work habits, they will continue to slack off. Beware of the negative co-workers. It is easy for them to drain the workplace with their negative energy. Working at a job you don't like is never easy and only gets exacerbated when there are whiners and people in seemingly permanent bad moods. If you are not careful, these people will annoy you and drive you nuts. Avoid being dragged down to their level. Beware of what you reveal to them such as complaints about the job or other co-workers or even the boss. Some of them will use that information and try to backstab you with it later on.
Unit 5:
What forms of prejudice are you aware of in society?
race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, sexual orientation取向or other personal characteristics
Have you ever made a stranger angry? Or get angry with a stranger? What did you do?/what did they do?/how did you resolve the problem?
Unit 6:
Who is your personal hero? Your own definition of hero.
A Hero in My Heart
The other day the TV reported that a retired school math teacher, Beth Smith, has been volunteering for the past 20 years at a United Nation’s refugee camp in Thailand, helping kids who cannot afford to go to school learn math and English. I was deeply touched when watching the story, especially when the reporter asked Beth why she would spent all her time in a third world country volunteering, she replied, “By helping these kids, I feel I’m doing good for the society, therefore I feel happy.” Her answer made me think about the virtue of helping others, and I realize that she is a true hero in my heart.
A \"hero\" is someone who puts his or her own life or safety at risk, in order to help others. This can be in a battle or in any desperate situation. ---
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
What personal qualities are important in an emergency? Efficiency ,decisiveness, Courage and braveness
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