1. Unit 15
Lesson 4
Learning

2. Lesson 4 Unit 15 Understanding
. One of the most important things in learning is understanding. In learning, we should understand something, then accept it and then learn it by heart. Different people have different ways to help them understand things. Maybe philosophy will be helpful to you in finding better ways of understanding.
Unit 15

3. Work in groups. Talk about the following strategies which help you to understand things.
Being relaxed and happy
Having time to think about what you are learning
Being interested in the topic
Discussing topics with friends
Memorizing things
Having a clear visual explanation
Your own way

4. Take notes while discussing by filling the information card.
Name
Things to learn
Strategies
Effect

5. Questions to be discussed:
1. Is there usually something you should understand
in learning?
2. How do you usually understand things?
3. What is most difficult problem with
with understanding?
4. In which subject do you have more problems
in understanding?
5. How do others help you?

6. Philosophy is helpful in understanding
Philosophy is helpful in understanding. Read the extracts from a philosopher, first to see how he makes people understand something.
Read the first part and find answer for the questions:
1. What did Sophie receive?
2. What was it about?

7. Go on reading, and make sure the following:
Topic to explain
Strategy to explain
Example given
Characters in the magic trick
What is philosophy?
Give an example.
A magic trick.
A magician and a white rabbit.

8. Continue your work. In the magic trick In reality ( the universe) Fact
True or false
Consciousness
Wonder
The magic game is only a trick.
People live in it.
False
True
The rabbit doesn't’t realize it is in the trick.
They are aware of being part of something mysterious.
How does he do it?
How does it work?

9. Further discussion of the white rabbit
What metaphor does the magician
use for the following ?
The white rabbit
People
Philosopher
Microscopic insects existing in the rabbit’s hair
Someone who tries to climb up the hair to look into the magician’s eyes
The universe

10. What does another letter talk about which Sophie received few days later? Compare young people with older people about attitudes to the world.
Who
Young people
Older people
Where
What to see/feel
How to react
How to work
Deeply in the hair
At the top of the hair
See more mysterious things, have more questions
Feel comfortable. Have less questions
Ask questions, find answers
Accept things without asking questions
Study how things work
Do things regularly

11. Answer the questions according to your understanding to the letters.
Does Sophie enjoy reading the letters?
How do you know about it.
2. What image does the philosopher use to explain the mystery of the universe?
3. What was Sophie’s reaction to what she had read?
What did she do when her mother got home?
How did her mother react?

12. Does Sophie enjoy reading the letters? How do you know about it.
Yes, she enjoys reading the letters. There are some hints in the exacts: “Sophie had hoped to find another letter from the unknown sender.” “ (After reading it) Sophie thought hard about this all afternoon.”

13. 2. What image does the philosopher use to explain
He uses a magic trick to explain the mystery of the universe, in which the magician tricks the audience by pulling a white rabbit out of an empty hat.

14. 3. What was Sophie’s reaction to what she had read?
She began thinking hard about the the white rabbit and the magic trick.

15. 4. What did she do when her mother got home?
When her mother got home at five o’clock, Sophie started to ask her questions.

16. 5. How did her mother react? Why did she get
Such a reaction?
She got so surprised that she didn't’t answer at first.Because Sophie was usually doing her homework when she got home.

17. Read Sophie’s questions to see how Sophie understands the problem that the philosopher tries to explain.
Adults accept everything without asking questions, because they think it is natural, and do things regularly without asking questions.

18. What have you learned about the problem of understanding
What have you learned about the problem of understanding? Ask yourself questions.
Why do young people have more questions than older people?
What is philosophy? How do you understand it?
Think about the strategies in Exercise 1. What strategy did the philosopher use to make Sophie understand what philosophy is? How can you understand more easily?

19. Test your memory
Complete the following from your memory.
compare
Ps. It might be better to _______ the white rabbit with the whole ________. We who live here are microscopic _______ existing in the ________ fur. But ____________ are always trying to _____ up the fine hairs of the fur in order to look into the __________ eyes.
universe
insects
rabbit’s
philosophers
climb
magician’s

20. Learn by reading
Find the following words in the text and guess their meaning according to the context.
Words/Expressions
afterwards
however
since
when
Meaning
So they can
therefore
To start with
while

21. What do the vitalized words refer to? Find answers in the text.
Line
Word in the text
Referring to 2
…who ask her questions. 3
The first two letters include these… 10
Turning it over… 20
We can’t understand how it is done. 44
In it, he/she tells Sophie more… 50
They got really comfortable…

22. Read and learn
Find the following adverbs in the text to see what they are used for, then arrange them according to the things they described.
Describing the way something is done
Describing when or how often something is done
Used with adjectives or other adverbs
e.g. She got up slowly.
e.g.I often wake up at 8 o’clock.
e.g. The book is extremely good.

23. Assignment
Prepare an example to explain something, using the strategy that you think is effective in making you understand things. Exchange your work in your group next period.