Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

sample writing:
fun and happiness
 many people still equate happiness with fun. the truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. fun is what we experience during the act. happiness is what we experience after an act. it is a deeper, more abiding emotion.
 going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television is fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. but they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.
 i have often thought that if hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. these rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to fancy homes, expensive cars, everything that spells “happiness”. but in memoir (事件的記錄) after memoir, celebrities reveal unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, drug addiction, broken marriage, troubled children.
 yet people continue to believe that the next, more expensive car, more luxurious vacation, fancier home will do what the other parties, cars, vacations, homes have not been able to do.
 the way people cling to the belief that full-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. if fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. but in fact, the opposite is true: more times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
 as a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. they fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, self-improvement.
 
step ⅴ summary and homework
t: today we read two essays, and every one of you has written an essay about your ideas of happiness. you and your classmates are asked to make a happiness handbook. your group will need to discuss how to plan your handbook. the questions on page 31 will help you get organized. i will divide you into groups of four. tomorrow, i will check your homework. that’s all for today. goodbye, everyone.
ss: goodbye, teacher.

the ninth period  reading(ⅱ)

teaching goals 教學目標
1. target language 目標語言
a. 重點詞匯和短語
throughout the world, broom, legally, ceremony, bride, groom, religious, path, be sent to, cruel, individual, fall in love, make arrangements, disturb, attic, propose to sb
b. 重點句式
it is interesting to note that african slaves who were brought to the usa started this tradition.