Group for Study of The Art of War
Preparations:1.Write all the thirty-six stratagems of The Art of War on paper sheets in different colors in Chinese as well as English.2.Make students into several groups and divide all the paper sheets to each group.
Task Ⅰ
Ask students to match what they have got in equivalents.
Task Ⅱ
Ask the students who hold Chinese version of the stratagems to show it with their body movements and another one shows the English version and explain the meaning.
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【注释】
〔1〕the State of Lu鲁国
〔2〕to educate all despite their social status不论社会地位如何，人人受教育
〔3〕to teach according to the students'characteristics因材施教
〔4〕Studying without thinking leads to confusion；thinking without studying leads to laziness.学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
〔5〕The Analects《论语》
〔6〕Do not give others what you do not want yourself.己所不欲勿施于人。
〔7〕All those things which you would have men do to you，even so do you to them:because this is the law and the prophets.你愿意人们怎样待你，你也要怎样待人，这是律法，是先知。
〔9〕The Hundred Schools of Thought诸子百家
〔10〕the Spring and Autumn period春秋时期
〔11〕the Warring States period战国时期
〔12〕the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy中国哲学的黄金时代
〔13〕Taoism or Daoism道教
〔14〕Mohism or Moism墨家
〔15〕The School of Law or Legalism法家
〔16〕The School of Naturalists or Yin-yang阴阳家
〔17〕the Five Elements or Five Phases五行
〔18〕Ma Wang Dui Texts马王堆帛书
〔19〕Huang Di Nei Jing黄帝内经