CET-B4-Unit6(new) Old Father Time Becomes A Terror 全新版大学英语综合教程(第二版)第四册+英语课件

Detailed Analysis of the Text:
This argumentative paper (议论文)argues that time becomes a terror for us, in reality for working people. It analyzes three reasons why we feel timepressed and our three reactions to time famine. It comes up with a remedy: We need fewer desires.
Fact 2: Fact 3:
The aircrafts created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking.
The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent on washing and ironing.
The author pins down the crux of Part IV Paras 24-28 the problem and puts forward a
remedy for the stress we feel.
Text Structure:
Scan Part I and find out three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today. And make a note of the transitional devices used there.
education ended at the age of seventeen.
• Before becoming a journalist, he was a
casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck
driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil
Text Structure: technology
Scan Part I and find out the facts the author uses to support the first reason why we feel so timepressed today.
Fact 1:
The motorcar brings more traffic problems than it promises to solve.
Information explosion
Text Structure:Information Explosion
Scan Part I to see why the author thinks that information explosion is the second reason for our present time-pressed feeling.
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That’s just Monday!
There simply aren’t enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done.
Father Time Has Become…A Terror
How Do You Feel About Father Time?
servant, and an assistant private
secretary to a government minister. He
left government service in1978 to
hitchhike around the world, and on
returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a
A couple of centuries ago
Today
All the world’s accumulated learning could be contained in the heads of few philosophers
whole other time crunch there!) - Kids picked up - Kids taken to soccer/taekwon-do/baseball/sportof-choice - Cooking the din-din - Eating said din-din - Homework reviewed - Oops, feed the dog again! - Bills paid - Calls returned
local newspaper as a trainee reporter. He
joined the Financial Times as a sub-
editor four years later.
Cultural Notes:
• The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London. Its main rival as a daily financial newspaper is the New York City-based Wall Street Journal.
Cultural Notes:
Richard Tompkins
•
consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a
member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company’s
➢ 3 reasons ➢ 2 aspects ➢ 3 reactions ➢ 1 remedy
Text Structure:
Parts Part I Part II Part III
Paragraphs Paras 1-11
Paras 12-18 Paras 19-23
Main Ideas The author gives three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today. Not every one is time-stressed, and in the case of Americans they have actually gained more free time in the past decade. The perception of time-famine has triggered a variety of reactions.
Unit Six Old Father Time Becomes A Terror
Father Time Has Become…
One Day’s Log:
- Dog fed - Lunches made - Kids to school - Me to work - Wife to work - …Worky-work-work… (a
• Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and his brother, the FT competed for many years with four other finance-oriented newspapers, finally in 1945 absorbing the last of these, the Financial News. The FT has specialised in reporting business and financial news while maintaining an independent editorial outlook. On occasion it has attacked the financial policies of the British government. Circulation of the FT is said to be one of the world's highest among financial newspapers, second only to that of The Wall Street Journal. Printed as a broadsheet on distinctive light salmon coloured paper, the FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets.
Fact 5:
Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, emails and voice-mails.
Fact 6:
Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to handle software glitches on computers and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.
Three reasons why we feel so time-
stressed today:
➢ technology
➢information explosion
…apart, …a second reason… (Para.7)
➢rising prosperity
There is another reason… (Para.11)
Text Structure: Information Explosion
Scan Part I to see why the author thinks that information explosion is the second reason for our present time-pressed feeling.
Text Structure: technology
Scan Part I and find out the facts the author uses to support the first reason why we feel so timepressed today.
Fact 4:
Instead of making our life easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work into our leisure time.
London headquarters, where he leads
team of journalists covering the
consumer goods sector and writes about
consumer trends, Tomkins was born in
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Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal
What makes Father Time Become
A Terror?
• many unfinished tasks • no ability to manage time &
priorities • technology • more desires • the deadlines • a waste of time on trivial matters • more social activities …