第一單元生活智慧與時代精神教案

　　一到邯鄲，他感到處處新鮮，簡直令人眼花繚亂。看到小孩走路，他覺得活潑、美，學；看見老人走路，他覺得穩(wěn)重，學；看到婦女走路，搖擺多姿，學。就這樣，不過半月光景，他連走路也不會了，路費也花光了，只好爬著回去了。
　　故事出自《莊子•秋水》。成語“邯鄲學步”，比喻生搬硬套，機械地模仿別人，不但學不到別人的長處，反而會把自己的優(yōu)點和本領也丟掉。
【提 示】
　　勤于向別人學習是應該肯定的，但是，一定要從自己的實際出發(fā)，取人之長，補己之短。如果像燕國壽陵人那樣，盲目鄙薄自己，一味崇拜別人，生搬硬套，亦步亦趨，結(jié)果必然是人家的優(yōu)點沒學來，自己的長處卻丟光了。
【英文】
　　imitating another without success and losing what used to be one'sown ability
　　tradition has it that more than 2,oooyears ago,there lived a young man in the shouling area of the state of yan.as his name is not known ,we just call him shouling young man for convenience's sake.
　　self confident he was at a loss as to how to behave all the time.
　　his family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming,but he thought they were fond of poking their noses into his business and were unwilling to provide him with tuition fee.his relatives and neighbours sneered at him,saying that he would never be able to learn anything.asthe days went by,he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did,for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.
　　one day,he met some people on the road who werechattingand laughing.one of themsaid that people in handan walked most gracefully.and thatwas just what he was most concerned about,so he hurreed towards themand wanted to make further inquiries.to his surprise,when these people saw him,they stalked off laughing.
　　he could not picture to himself in what way their walking gestures were graceful,no matter how hard he racked his parents one day.he went to handanwhich was far away to learn how to walk.
　　as soon as he arrived in handan,he was dazzled to find that everything was novel.he learned from the children there how to walk,because he thought that the children's walking gestures were lively and pleasing to the eye.he learnd from the old people there how to walk,because he thought the old people's walking gestures were steady .he learnd from the women there how to walk,because he thought the women' swaying walking gestures were beautiful.that being the case with him ,in less than half a month he even forgot how to walk.as he had already used up his traveling expenses,he had to crawl back home.
　　thisstory come from the article"autumn water"in the works of xhuang zi(zhuang zi was a famous ancient chinese philosopher of about 300b.c.).later the set phrase"initating another without success and losing what used to be one's own ability"is used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.