小组讨论话题

小组讨论话题(新编大学英语Book 2)（topics for Group Work）

a. Motherly love and fatherly love

H:Hi,money,you looks so happy,what happened ?

Q:Nothing, just because the day after tomorrow is my father’s birthday, I’m going to buy a present spcially for him to show my appreciation of his loving. And also I will sing a song to him.

H:Clovel,What do you think about Motherly love and fatherly love.

J:My father isvery strict with me, but my mother is very kind,she never urge me to do things that I don’t like to do.Therefore,I believe that Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. The lovefrom father is quite different, it is conditional.

Z:No,I don’t think so.At least ,in my family,my father never asks me to do anything thatI don’t want to do, In addition, he pays more attention to my health and study.What about you mony?

Q: As far as I’m concerned,A new page in the book of my life have turned since my parents gave a birth. Athough ,there great differences between fatherly love and motherly love. It is no deny that everything they do for usjust for one aim which is good for us.

H: yeah, Iargee with you. The blood circulating in our flesh coms from our parents.It can’t be changed during long river of our lives. Love of mother is vital for us as well as unconditional. As we know,it not because we can load their expectations,just owing to the nature. Fatherly love is conditional sometimes , we are the part of their lives, Its principle is “I love yo u because you fulfill my expections, because you do your duty, because you are like me.”In the word ,I love my parents just like they love me.

b. Romantic stories

H: money, what is the time now, you’re not going home?

Q: What’s the hurry, it is still early!

H: Do you know what day it is today?

Q: I do not know. What day is it?

H: Today is”7-7”. Chinese Valentine’s Day!

Q: Really? I know nothing about that,you know, why is it today?

H,Z,J:yes,we all know.

H: It is a long story.

J: Everyone know that, Ithink,Simply speaking, according to legend there was a Queen Mother of the western heavens, who used the Milky Way galaxy to separate Niulang (Cow Boy) and Zhinv (Weaving Lady)from each other. They are only allowed to meet each other once a year on the

ev ening of July 7 lunar calendar. This is the beginning of the Valentine’s Day.

Z: How do they meet each other?

H: During this evening, magpies will fly to the sky and create a bridge for them.

They meet on the bridge as a result the bridge is called” magp ie bridge".

Q: Oh! What a romantic story!

H: Thereafter girls began to prepare various exquisite small items

to beg for deftness in this festival in the hope of obtaining love and happiness.

Q: I see. I am going home now because the Cow boy is waiting for me. Goodbye!

H: Hey! Do not forget to lead a good Festival!

Z:To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. They are all so lucky to have found the soulmate in their life.IncldingNuLang and ZhiNv.