,Watch a video clip about what Forrest Gumps mother tell him when she was dying.,Warming up,Warming up, Read the quotations about money and answer the questions.,Warming up,Warming up,1 Which of them are easy to understand? 2 Which of them are similar in meaning? 3 Which of them do you agree with? 4 Which of them are warnings? 5 Which one recommends spending? 6 Which one recommends saving?,Warming up, Work in groups of three or four and discuss the questions.,1 What do you spend your money on? 2 Are you careful about how you spend it? 3 What do you think is the best way to invest money? 4 If you won a lot of money, what would you do with it?,Warming up, Check () the advice you expect an intelligent older person to give to a young man., 1 Be honest with yourself. 2 Devote yourself to loving others. 3 Enjoy yourself while you can. 4 Money cant buy you love. 5 Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.,Now read the passage by Mitch Albom and find out what Morrie says to him.,Skimming,Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it. Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 71.,Task,Skimming, Check () the true statements about Morrie., 1 Morrie is very ill. 2 He is an emotional person. 3 He has lost interest in the pleasures of life. 4 He used to be very interested in material things. 5 He has been thinking about money a lot. 6 He cant afford to buy anything new for his house. 7 He does volunteer work in a local senior centre. 8 He thinks people have the wrong values. 9 He believes in the power of love.,The true statements are 1, 2, 8 and 9.,Skimming, Answer the questions.,What has happened to Morries interest in music since he became ill? In what way does Morrie think American people have been brainwashed? 3 In what way does Morrie think material things and love are connected?,Morries interest in music has got even more intense.,American people are made to believe that material things are the most important and the more, the better.,They are not connected, you cannot substitute material things for love.,Skimming,What happened the day Morrie discovered he was terminally ill? How has Morries house changed since that day? 6 How does Morrie distinguish between “wants” and “needs”?,He lost interest in buying things.,It has not changed physically as he stopped buying things, but it has become a wealthy home, filled with love, friendship, family, honesty, tears, colleagues, students and so on.,“Wants” are luxuries whereas “needs” are necessary.,Skimming,What advice does Morrie give the narrator? 8 Why does the narrator take notes of the conversation he has with Morrie?,To offer others what you have to give.,Mostly because he doesnt want Morrie to see his eyes and understand what he is thinking.,Tuesdays with Morrie,译文,Digging,1 Morrie was focused. There were good days and bad days now. He was having a good day. The night before, he had been entertained by a local a cappella group that had come to the house to perform, and he relayed the story excitedly, as if the Ink Spots themselves had dropped by for a visit. Morries love for music was strong even before he got sick, but now it was so intense, it moved him to tears. He would listen to opera sometimes at night, closing his eyes, riding along with the magnificent voices as they dipped and soared.,Background information,Digging,2 “You should have heard this group last night, Mitch. Such a sound!” 3 Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasures, singing, laughing, dancing. Now, more than ever, material things held little or no significance. When people die, you always hear the expression “You cant take it with you.” Morrie seemed to know that a long time ago.,译文,Digging,4 “Weve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country,” Morrie sighed. “Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And thats what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat itand have it repeated to usover and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on whats really important anymore.,译文,Digging,5 “Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. Guess what I got? Guess what I got?,译文,Digging,6 “You know how I always interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You cant substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.,译文,Digging,7 “Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as Im sitting here dying, when you most need