Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Think about the answers from your survey and from the listening exercise and look at these quotations about happiness. 3 • Decide in pairs whether you agree with the quotations, and give your reasons. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a so-called “Dystopia” – a negative view of the future. 4 • Now write on a piece of paper a sentence beginning: “Happiness is …”. All the papers will be collected and read out. Try to guess who wrote each one. Jane Austen 1775–1817 English novelist (“Emma”,“Pride and Prejudice”, “Sense and Sensibility”)  “Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?”  We agree/disagree  because ... Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961 American novelist  “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965 Doctor, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner  “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864 American novelist  “Happiness is like a butterfly which you cannot catch: if you sit down quietly it may come to you.” Herman Cain American businessman, fast food millionaire  “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950 Irish dramatist and Nobel Prize winner  “A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” seize the pleasure at once: das  Vergnügen/Glück beim Schopf  packen In this book, society is very tightly controlled, there are no mothers or fathers – all babies are “test-tube” babies and are “made”, conditioned and educated by the state. They are divided into Alphas (intelligent, educated leaders and managers), Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons (the mass of unskilled workers). test-tube: aus dem Reagenzglas conditioned: hier: geformt 8 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv