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means to me.
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(A) I always seek advice and feedback.
(B) I never seek advice and feedback.
(C) Sometimes I seek advice and feedback.
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Attitude Test 3. ( ) (A) I never give up something I enjoy now, for
-W. Clement Stone （a businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author. ）
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Lead-in Discussion
• What is your motto in life? Explain it. 2. Do you find life sometimes
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Structure Analysis
Part One Paras.1-8
Through one event during his hospitalization, the author explains that we often fail to see the beauty and wonder of life when we should be holding on to it, urges us to hold fast to the gifts of life.
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Attitude Test
7. ( ) (A) I would never take a risk, I only want sure things. (B) I am somewhat open to taking risks. (C) I am willing to take risks if the rewards seem worth
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(1). Has technology made our lives easier or more burdensome? Give examples to illustrate. (Teacher may divide the students into several groups to discuss the question, and write down each group’s answer on the blackboard) (2). Lead-in to the text: What we have discussed just now is actually related to the text we are going to study. Now let’s see whether you have the same idea with the author.
Part III
1. Language study 2. Ask questions to check their understanding of the text.
Part IV
1. Language study 2. Ask questions to check their understanding of the text. 3. Text organization
vt. put stress, pressure, or strain on
Language Study
oblige:
do sth. for (sb.) as a favor or small service (used in
the pattern: oblige (sb.) (with sth./ by doing sth.)
大学英语综合教程4 Unit 6 The Pace of Life -ppt课件
Preface
Cf. on the move: in the process of moving (from one place or job to another); making progress
- It’s difficult to contact her because she’s always on the move.
Father Time: Time personified as a very old man, carrying a scythe and an hourglass
• sound byte: a very brief excerpt from
a speech or statement broadcast on television or radio
- The economy appeared to be on the move. - Science is always on the move. (发展) - It was vacation time, and the highways were
full of families on the move. (驾车出游的家庭往来 不绝)
everyone is in a rush to make a better station for himself. People are chained down by the lust to be somebody. They try to appear busy to show to others they are working hard. If you are not busy, maybe you are considered a man of no future.
综合教程-4--unit-6PPT优秀课件
Lead-in
➢ In my mundane world, I was not trivial. -- Yale University
在我平凡的世界里，我就是不平凡。
➢The real failure is not you do not get things done , but you are willing to fail. -- Stanford University
合乎情理： add up
4.Three and four adds up to seven.
总计为： tudy
✓ relish
vt. / n. 享受、喜欢
e.g. 我不喜欢听流行音乐。
I don’t relish listening to pop music.
• preoccupied • weave
• redeem
New Words Study
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✓ int集en约siv的e ； adj.
十分强烈的； 激烈的，十分紧张的
酷热
intensive vs. intense intense heat
精读
intensive reading
集约农业
intensive agriculture
激烈的竞争
intense competition
New Words Study
✓ additional adj. 追加的、附加的 ✓ v. add ** add sth to sth 1)Please add my name to the list. 2)Add 5 to the total. 3)I have something to add to my statement.
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1. What do you do to celebrate National Day?2. Suppose you were abroad, would you do anything special to commemorate the occasion?Along about this time every year, as Independence Day approaches, I pull an old American flag out of a bottom drawer where it is folded away — folded in a square, I admit, not the regulation triangle. I've had it a long time and have always flown it outside on July 4. Here in Paris it hangs from a fourth-floor balcony visible from the street. I've never seen anyone look up, but in my mind's eye an American tourist may notice it and smile, and a French passerby may be reminded of the date and the occasion that prompt its appearance. I hope so.For my expatriated family, too, the flag is meaningful, in part because we don't do anything else to celebrate the Fourth. People don't have barbecues in Paris apartments, and most other Americans I know who have settled here suppress such outward signs of their heritage — or they go back home for the summer to refuel.Our children think the flag-hanging is a cool thing, and I like it because it gives us a few moments of family Q&A about our citizenship. My wife and I have been away from the United States for nine years, and our children are eleven and nine, so American history is mostly something they have learned — or haven't learned — from their parents. July 4 is one of the times when the American in me feels a twinge of unease about the great lacunae in our children's understanding of who they are and is prompted to try to fill the gaps. It's also a time, one among many, when my thoughts turn more generally to the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture.Louise and Henry speak French fluently; they are taught in French at school, and most of their friends are French. They move from language to language, seldom mixing them up, without effort or even awareness. This is a wonderful thing, of course. And our physical separation from our native land isnot much of an issue. My wife and I are grateful every day for all that our children are not exposed to. American school shootings are a good object lesson for our children in the follies of the society we hold at a distance.Naturally, we also want to remind them of reasons to take pride in being American and to try to convey to them what that means. It is a difficult thing to do from afar, and the distance seems more than just a matter of miles. I sometimes think that the stories we tell them must seem like Aesop's (or La Fontaine's) fables, myths with no fixed place in space or time. Still, connections can be made, lessons learned.Last summer we spent a week with my brother and his family, who live in Concord, Massachusetts, and we took the children to the North Bridge to give them a glimpse of the American Revolution. We happened to run across a reenactment of the skirmish that launched the war, with everyone dressed up in three-cornered hats and cotton bonnets. This probably only confirmed to our goggle-eyed kids the make-believe quality of American history.Six months later, when we were recalling the experience at the family dinner table here, I asked Louise what the Revolution had been about. She thought that it had something to do with the man who rode his horse from town to town. Ah, I said, satisfaction swelling in my breast, and what was that man's name? "Gulliver?" Louise replied. Henry, for his part, knew that the Revolution was between the British and the Americans, and thought that it was probably about slavery.As we pursued this conversation, though, we learned what the children knew instead. Louise told us that the French Revolution came at the end of the Enlightenment, when people learned a lot of ideas, and one was that they didn't need kings to tell them what to think or do. On another occasion, when Henry asked what makes a person a "junior" or a "Ⅱ" or a "Ⅲ", Louise helped me answer by bringing up kings like Louis Quatorze and Quinze and Seize; Henry riposted with Henry Ⅷ.I can't say I worry much about our children's European frame of reference. There will be plenty of time for them to learn America's pitifully brief history and to find out who Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt were. Already they know a great deal more than I would have wished about Bill Clinton.If all of this resonates with me, it may be because my family moved to Paris in 1954, when I was three, and I was enrolled in French schools for most of my grade-school years. I don't remember much instruction in American studies at school or at home. I do remember that my mother took me out of school one afternoon to see the movie Oklahoma! I can recall what a faraway place it seemed: all that sunshine and square dancing and surreys with fringe on top. The sinister Jud Fry personified evil for quite some time afterward. Cowboys and Indians were an American cliche that had already reached Paris through the movies, and I asked a grandparent to send me a Davy Crockett hat so that I could live out that fairy tale against the backdrop of gray postwar Montparnasse.Although my children are living in the same place at roughly the same time in their lives, their experience as expatriates is very different from mine. The particular narratives of American history aside, American culture is not theirs alone but that of their French classmates, too. The music they listen to is either "American" or "European," but it is often hard to tell the difference. In my day little French kids looked like nothing other than little French kids; but Louise and Henry and their classmates dress much as their peers in the United States do, though with perhaps less Lands' End fleeciness. When I returned to visit the United States in the 1950s, it was a five-day ocean crossing for a month's home leave every two years; now we fly over for a week or two, although not very often. Virtually every imaginable product available to my children's American cousins is now obtainable here.If time and globalization have made France much more like the United States than it was in my youth, then I can conclude a couple of things. On the one hand, our children are confronting a much less jarring cultural divide than I did, and they have more access to their native culture. Re-entry, when itcomes, is likely to be smoother. On the other hand, they are less than fully immersed in a truly foreign world. That experience no longer seems possible in Western countries — a sad development, in my view.网上教室有以下内容:学习指导高职高专大学英语英语专业硕士英语博士英语语音教学。
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Text Organization
Blank Filling Facts are valuable as evidence that enhances the persuasive force of an argumentative paper. In stating the first reason, the author lists a number of facts to try to convince the readers of the unfavorable effects technology has had on our lives. Now could you find some more supporting facts apart from the one given below, and put them down?
2. What is remedy for the stress according to the author’s opinion?
A possible remedy is that we should understand the problem and realize that it is not more time we need, it is fewer desires.
Text Organization
Blank Filling 1. The motorcar brings more traffic problems than it promises to solve. 2. The aircraft creates a high demand for time-consuming ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ journeys that we never dreamed of. 3. The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________ the hours spent on washing and ironing. 4. Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as _________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ to cram extra work into our leisure time. 5. Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, ________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ e-mails and voicemails. 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.
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全新版⼤学英语第⼆版综合教程4unit6 Unit 6 The Pace of LifeBefore ReadingAn English Song– Dear DiaryDear DiaryQuestions and AnswersQuestionnaireWarm-up QuestionsBackground InformationRichard TomkinsTechnologyStress in the WorkplaceGlobal ReadingPart Division of the TextFurther UnderstandingFor Part 1 ScanningBlank-fillingFor Part 2 True or FalseFor Part 3 Table-completionFor Part 4 Questions and AnswersDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingVocabularyUseful ExpressionsScanningSentence TranslationDictationDiscussionTalk about the PicturesWriting PracticeProverbs and QuotationsSupplementary ReadingCulture NotesReadingComprehension TaskBefore Reading1 English Song–Dear DiaryDear DiaryDear DiaryThe Moody BluesDear diary, what a day it's been.Dear diary, it's been just like a dream.Woke up late. Wasn't where I should have been.For goodness sake what's happening to me.Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.It was cold outside my door.So many people by the score.Rushing around so senselessly.They don't notice there's people like me.Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.They don't know what they're playing.They've no way of knowing what the game is.Still they carry on doing what they can.Outside me, yours truly, dear diary.It's over. Will tomorrow be the same?I know that they're really not to blame.If they weren't so blind then surely they'd see.There's a much better way for them to be.Inside me, yours truly, dear diary.Somebody exploded an H-bomb today.But it wasn't anyone I knew.Questions and Answers1. How does the singer treat his diary? Why?(=He treats it as a friend, to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings.)2. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?(=He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for each other or for themselves.)3. What can we infer about the singer’s attitude towards the pace of life today?(=It is unwise for people to spend days in a rush.)2. QuestionnaireQuestionnairePurpose:The purpose of this questionnaire is to increase your awareness of stress in your life.Directions:Answer "yes" or "no" to each of the stress index questions. Circle your answer._____ 1. I have frequent arguments._____ 2. I often get upset at work._____ 3. I often have neck and/or shoulder pains due to anxiety/stress._____ 4. I often get upset when I stand in long lines._____ 5. I often get angry when I listen to the local, national, or world news or read the newspaper._____ 6. I do not have a sufficient amount of money for my needs._____ 7. I often get upset when driving._____ 8. At the end of a workday I often feel stress-related fatigue._____ 9. I have at least one constant source of stress/anxiety in my life (e.g., conflict with boss, Neighbor, mother-in-law, etc.)._____ 10. I often have stress-related headaches._____ 11. I do not practice stress management techniques._____ 12. I rarely take time for myself._____ 13. I have difficulty in keeping my feelings of anger and hostility under control._____ 14. I have difficulty in managing time wisely._____ 15. I often have difficulty sleeping._____ 16. I am generally in a hurry._____ 17. I usually feel that there is not enough time in the day to accomplish what I need to do._____ 18. I often feel that I am being mistreated by friends or associates._____ 19. I do not regularly perform physical activity._____ 20. I rarely get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night.Scoring and Interpretation:Answering "yes" to any of the questions means that you need to use some form of stress management techniques.Add your "yes" answers and use the following scale to evaluate the level of stress in your life.Number of "Yes" Answers Stress Category:6 - 20 High stress3 - 5 Average stress0 - 2 Low stress3 Warm-up Questions(Direction:) Read the following short passage and discuss the questions.“Now psychologists look at our view of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the pace of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city dwellers walk. They time transactions in banks and post offices. They see how long people take to answer questions.Japanese keep the fastest pace. Americans are a close second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of th e list. ……Finally, we look at heart disease. That's tricky, because other factors are involved. Our heart's greatest enemy is tobacco. But heart disease also correlates with the pace we keep. Smokers who drive themselves are really asking for it.”1. What do you think keep people in some countries so busy?2. What might be the acute/major problems facing people today?(Possible answers: 1. Tension—Physical, mental, emotional2. Health problems—Physical, mental and emotional diseases3. Ecological pollution/Rupture in ozone layer4. Disturbed family relations5. Violence and cruelty6. Corruption / Dishonesty / Immorality7. Drug-addiction8. Neglect of law & order and ethical, moral and social discipline9. Armaments/Nuclear weapons (Militarism)3. Compared with people’s life in ancient times, what have new technology, theinformation explosion and rising economy really brought to us?4 Background InformationRichard TomkinsRichard Tomkins, consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. (=Financial Times includes business and financial news and analysis. To know it better, log on the following website: /doc/4becb577bdeb19e8b8f67c1cfad6195f302be87d.html /home/europe （TechnologyMany historians of science argue not only that technology is an essential condition of advanced, industrial civilization but also that the rate of technological change has developed its own momentum in recent centuries. Innovations now seem to appear at a rate that increases geometrically, without respect to geographical limits or political systems. These innovations tend to transform traditional cultural systems, frequently with unexpected social consequences. Thus technology can be conceived as both a creative and a destructive process.Stress in the WorkplaceThe problem of stress is not likely to go away. As the pace of change continues to increase, the demands upon us will also increase. We will have to make more decisions and make decisions faster; have to learn new skills, adapt to new situations, and cope with new threats. As a result we will find ourselves becoming more tired, making more mistakes, becoming more hostile, more anxious, more depressed, suffering more ill-health, and having more accidents.If we are to survive in an ever-accelerating world, it is imperative that we learn to cope with the increasing pressures of change. If we do not, breakdowns and burnouts will become the norm.Global Reading1. Part Division of the Text2.Further UnderstandingFor Part 1Scanning(Directions:) Scan part one and find out three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today. And make a note of the transitional devices used there.1. _____________________2. _____________________3. _____________________(=1. Technology 2. Information explosion 3. Rising prosperity)Transitional devices: 1. ___________2. ___________(=1. …apart, …a second reason…(Para. 7)2. There is another reason…(Para. 11) )Blank-filling(Directions:) Facts are valuable as evidence that enhances the persuasive force of an argumentative paper. In stating the first reason, the author lists a number of facts to try to convince the readers of the unfavorable effects technology has had on our lives. Now could you find some more supporting facts apart from the one given below, and put them down?1) The motorcar brings more traffic problems than it promises to solve.2) _________________________________________________________________3) _________________________________________________________________4) _________________________________________________________________5) _________________________________________________________________6) _________________________________________________________________(=2) The aircraft creates a high demand for time-consuming journeys that we never dreamed of.3) The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent onwashing and ironing.4) Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work intoour leisure time.5) Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voice-mails.6) Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to handle software glitches oncomputers and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.)For Part 2True or False1. It is convenient to say we are all lack of time. (F)(=It is too general to say we are all lack of time.)2. About 50 percent of people will tell you they never have enough time to get thingsdone. (F)(=About 50 percents of unemployed or retired people will tell you they never have enough time to get things done.)3. In the U.K., working hours have risen only slightly in the last 10 years. (T)4. The gains of free time were unevenly distributed only because different groups ofpeople gained different amount of free time. (F)(=There is also a gender issue here.)For Part 3Table-completion(Directions:) Fill in the chart with a variety of reactions provoked by the perception of the time famine and the trouble with all these reactions. Pay attention to the transitional devices, too.For Part 4Questions and Answers1. What is the crux of the problem the author points out?(=The author points out the time stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the too many things we try to do. ) 2. What is remedy for the stress according to the author’s opinion?(=A possible remedy is that we should understand the problem and realize that it is not more time we need, it is fewer desires.)Detailed ReadingThe trouble is, it delivered them.1. What do “deliver” and “them” here refer to?(= “Deliver” means to provide or to bring, “them” here refer to “horizons”)2. What does “trouble” imply?(=It implies the unfavorable effect of the invention of aircraft, that is, people, driven on by new horizons, would like to spend more time on time-consuming journeys. )“Now, I find myself subscribing to 60 or 70 journals …of the expanding frontiers of scholarship.”1. Paraphrase “the expanding frontiers of scholarship”.(=the ever-advancing development in the new field of academy)2. What is the purpose for the author to quote this sentence?(=The purpose is to give us a more vivid picture about the information explosion.)So we suffer from what Wilson calls discontent with super abundance — the confusion of endless choice.1. What do “super abundance” refer to?(=It refers to the a quantity of goods and services.)2. Why can we infer from the sentence?(=The quantity of goods and services is too much, it is endless, and what’s more, it increases our time stress levels.)It’s almost got to the point where there’s stress envy.1. What is “stress envy” meant by?(=If you are not stressed, that shows you are not very successful.)2. Why does the author mention the “stress envy”?(=To make his argument comprehensive and more convincing, the author revealed the fact that not everyone is overstressedthough 50 percent of unemployed or retired people tell you they never have enough time to get things done.)3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.(=这⼏乎到了羡慕压⼒的程度。
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Unit 6 The pace of life (PARTⅡ) Text A : Old Father Time Becomes a Terror
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the Author technology stress in the workplace
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Reviewing reading skills
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The perception of time-famine has triggered a variety of reactions.
大学英语综合教程4 Unit 6 The Pace of Life - 课件电子教案
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Part one (paras 1-11)
• What are the three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today?
Part I (Paras 1-11)
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Unit 6 The Pace of LifeTest A Old Father Becomes A TerrorObjectives:Students will be able to:1.V ocabulary in language focus. Be sure that students memorize them and know how to utilizethem.2.Learn how to construct an argumentation.3.Learn how to employ writing skills such as exemplications, quotations, figures, compare andcontrast, cause and effect, etc. to make an argumentative paper persuasive.4.Lead students to understand causes of the feeling of time famine, the solutions to it andeventually how to put them into practice in our daily life.First periodPreview assignment:1.Preview the new words and expressions in the text.2.Grasp the main idea and structure of the text; pay attention to the topic sentences in each partand make a note of the transitional devices.3.Try to underline the reasons/causes to the feelings of time famine, the reactions to time famineand the crux(症结)of the problem and its remedy proposed by the author in the text.4.Before class collect phenomena of the modern life (the students are expected to report them inclass.)I.Listening practice 15minsListen to the passage and then answer questions:Harvard University: Established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Upon his death in 1638, the young minister left his library and half his estate to the new College. In 1639, in recognition of John Harvard's bequest, the Great and General Court ordered "that the colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge." Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the College has grown from 9 students with a single Master into a University with an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates.1. When did Harvard University established? (Answer: 1639)2. How did the University get its name? (Answer: Harvard was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, of Charlestown, Massachusetts.)3. How many candidates now in University?(Answer: an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates.)II.Cultural Notes:15mins1.Richard Tomkins (see reference book page 56)2.Technology (see reference book page 57)3.Stress in the workplace (see reference book page 57&58)4.Henley Centre: founded in 1974 by academics associated with the Henley Management Collegein Oxfordshire, notably the economist James Morrell. It was originally known as The Henley Centre for Forecasting, with a focus on business forecasting. It was initially run as a non-profit organisation in partnership with the management college, before becoming privately owned in the early 1980s. It was acquired by WPP in the 1990s and now sits within the Kantar Group,WPP’s information, insight and consultancy division.5.McDonald’s is the world's leading food service retailer with more than 30,000 restaurants in 118countries serving 46 million customers each day. It also serves the world some of its favorite foods---world famous French Fries(炸薯条) Big Mae(巨无霸)Chicken McNugges(麦乐鸡块)and Egg McMuffin（猪柳蛋汉堡包）II. Check the preview work (ask several students to tell the phenomena they collected of the modern life) 30minsSuggested answer:First, all people nowadays seems to be too much in a rush to spare enough time for one another. The pace of life is so high in this society that we have no time and energy to enjoy the sunshine every day. We are busy doing important businesses and working or buying houses. Time always seems to be limited and not sufficient at all. As a result almost all people feel the pressure of time. It seems that all the things in life is necessary and important for us to do that we can’t spare even half an hour to enjoy the warm sunshine outside. Second, science and technology plays a rather important part in our life, which on the one hand makes our life comfortable and convenient, but on the other hand makes our human beings develop a kind of abnormal dependence on modern scientific products. For example, we carry mobile phones to keep in touch with others, without it we may feel isolated and helpless. Third, more and more people complain that they are under a large amount of stress from work, study or simply from life. According to surveys many people feel exhausted, frustrated and even depressed.Teacher may sums up and leads into the Text by saying:True as the pace of our life is quickening ever faster, we all seem to be so busy, we seem forever on the go. Many people would ask: how are we to cope with so many things in so little time? But have you ever reflected on the reasons why we become so? Why we become so time pressed? What's the crux and is there any solution to prevent "old father Time becomes a terror"? Now, in the following periods we will see our author Richard Tomkins’ explanation. To begin with, we’ll see the organization of his writing.III. Analysis of the text structure 25minsIn many ways we can see that this piece is a rather persuasive argumentative paper, which much probably can be found in the editorial or comment section where journalists and others contribute regular or occasional columns reflecting on topical issues. Here in the initial part (paragraph 1-11), first by pointing out that we were wrongly estimated we would have more spare time with the help of technology, the writer proposes the problem of the pressure of time and present three reasons why we feel so time-pressed nowadays. Then in the second part (paragraph 12-18), the author goes on to concede that not everybody is affected to the same extent, that is, an exception: not everyone is time-stressed, and in the case of Americans they have actually gained more free time in the past decade. Next comes to the third part (paragraph 19-23), in which our author percepts a variety of reactions triggered by the time-famine. Finally in the last part (paragraph 24-28) the author pins down the crux of the problem and puts forwards a remedy for the stress we feel.(Note: in another way, our teacher can take the following form---ask student to fill the blanksIV1. Read part one carefully after class, and then find out the reasons why people feel time-pressedtoday.2. Summarize how the author lists facts to convince us of the unfavorable effects technology hashad on our lives.3. Read part three and underline the reactions provoked by time-famine.4. Try to list all writing skills employed in the text, such as quotations, figures, etc.Second periodExercise 15minsDictation:As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body, but stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact, it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.Detailed Text Analysis: 70minsI. Part One 35minsStudents scan part I and then answer the following questions:1. What are the reasons that cause people feel time pressed today?Answer: 1) technology (paragraph 2 " But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us.")2) Information exploration (paragraph 7 "Technology apart, the Internet points the way toa second reason why we feel so time-pressed: the information exploration."3) Rising prosperity (paragraph 11 "There is another reason for our increasing time stresslevels, too: rising prosperity.")2. According to the author, has technology made our lives easier or more burdensome? Howmany facts does the author list in order to convince his readers?Answer: According to the author, technology has made our lives more burdensome. Apart from cramming work into our leisure time, it has also provided us with new burden such as spending hours in fixing software glitches on computers and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.Facts are valuable as evidence that enhances the persuasive force of an argumentative paper. In the text, the author lists a number of facts to try to convince the readers of the unfavorable effects technology has had on our lives.Supporting facts in part one:1) The motorcar brings more traffic problems than it promises to solve.2) The air craft creates a high demand for time-consuming journeys that we neverdreamed of.3) The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent on washingand ironing.4) Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work into ourleisure time.5) Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails.6) Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to handle software glitches oncomputers and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.3. What writing skills are used to enhance the persuasive force of the author's arguments in partone?Answer: i. Compare and contrast:para 1 & 2---technology, not liberated us but has enslaved us.para 8 & 9and10---through figures, we see the contrast between old days and new time,that is, why we say the information exploded.ii. Facts and examples to illustrate one's view:eg. In part one, there are a number of facts were listed to illustrate the unfavorable effects technology has had on our lives.(see Question 2 above)4. Language study in this part:on the go, cope with, set about sth./doing sth.(no passive), a large quantity of, free from, eat into, in reality, pour in, a handful of, amount to, stress (on), prosperity, oblige, oblige(sb.)(with sth./by doing sth.) abundance, in abundance, abundance of, confusion.II. Part Two15minIn this part the author displays his familiarity with the complexity of the problem, so he makes a concession, pointing out the exception: Not everyone is time-pressed, and Americans have actually gained more free time in the past decade. The following questions are for students to know this part better.1. What is "stress envy"? What do you think are the possible sociological motivations behind it? Answer: "If you're not stressed, you're not succeeding. Everyone wants to have a little bit of this stress to show they're an important person." (Paragraph 14) / In other words, feeling time stressed can bring a kind of sense of importance of oneself. This has its sociological motivations; maybe it is because people think only person of importance will have many things to deal with, and therefore will feel time starved. Or, generally only the people have nothing to do or achieve nothing will not be bothered by time famine. So people have a sense of "stress envy".2. What writing skills are used to enhance the persuasive force in this part?Answer: contrasts and quotations.Take quotation for example:In this part, our author seeks support from the use of quotations from a number of different people, not ordinary one but the well-known ones or experts. These quotations are provided together with the name of the person and background information on them. These details add human interest and support the argument by reference to the utterances of someone who would appear to be in a position to know. Another thing to be notice is, as the quotations record spoken rather than written English, the tone of language is often colloquial, which is rather different from a more purely academic essay.3. Language points in this part:confusion, volunteer, perception, appliance, distribution,III. Part Three 10minsQuestions for students:1. What are the reactions triggered by time famine?Answer: 1) “An attempt to gain the largest possible amount of satisfaction from the smallest possible investment of time.”(para 19)2) “People are also trying to buy time.”(para 21)3) “A third reaction to time famine has been the growth of the work-life debate.”(para 22) 2. What writing skills are used to enhance the persuasive force in this part?Answer: Cause and effect; quotationsTake cause and effect for example: In this text, the pressure of time felt by people is the cause, which arouses a variety of reactions among them. And quotation in this part (para 19&20) was used to prove that people value “quality time” and they become upset when time is wasted.3. Language points in this part:provoke, a variety of, domestic, spring up, futile, divertIV. Part Four 10minsQuestions for students:1. What is the crux of the problem? What about its remedy and the key solution?Answer: The author in the last part (in paragraph 24) pins down the crux of the problem as “the stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it.” A successful remedy lies in understanding the problem rather than evading it---the global village is a world of limitless possibilities, and we should not expect to know everything in this world. The key solution is we human beings should have fewer desires. “W e need to set boundaries for ourselves, or be doomed to mounting despair.”2. Language points:a shortage of, switch off, be doomed toV. Homework: 5mins1. Review words and expressions of this Unit2. Prepare a class report on the topic of stress (about 130 words).3. Finish exercises after text A4. Previewing task:1) Read through the text and analyze the text structure;2) Have an after-class discussion on how much pressure we have to stand for in our daily lives.3) Have an optional writing entitled "The Ways We Cope with Time Pressure".Third periodI.Class report (two or three students is ok.)15minsSuggestion: Teacher asks students to rewrite their class report into an essay within 150 words. Suggested passage for teachers:Title: On StressIn our society, almost all people are under various kinds of stress. It is no wonder that stress has been shown to be one of the leading causes of health problems and under high stress conditions for an extended period of time stress can result in serious health problems and even premature death in an individual.While a certain amount of stress is good for a person and builds character, extended stress not only causes health problems but reduced work performance in an individual. Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact, it is not the bad thing as it is often supposedto be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivations and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.If we are to survive in an ever-accelerating world, it is imperative that we learn to cope with the increasing pressure of change. If we do not, it is more than probable that we will find ourselves sucked into a downward spiral, desperately trying to manage in an increasing unmanageable world. II.Check of homework, including words and expressions, and our teacher should provide necessary explanation when going through the exercises after Text A 30minsText B Life in the Fast LaneFor Teachers’ leading words for this Text:As the pace of life in today's world grows ever faster, we seem forever on the go. With so much to do and so little time to do it in how can we struggle to save time? And does it make any sense? This text talks about untangling the problem and comes up with the answer.III.Check Ss' previewing work by asking them the following questions :( 10 minutes)---- How does the author state out his topic?---- How does the author challenge the traditional and widely accepted concept of timesaving? Suggested summing up words for Ts:In para1--11, the author states out his topic by listing a large number of facts.In para12-13, the author asks several questions and provides the answers to them, through the questions, the author's viewpoint gets quite persuasive.IV. Then, T asks Ss form groups to discuss the topic-- timesaving :( 25 minutes) In class, Ss can form groups of three or four to discuss and report how they save time in their daily lives. T lists those methods on the blackboard and reminds Ss to keep these methods in mind when they study the text, and see how many of them are mentioned in the text. (25 minutes) Suggested answers:1. Have their breakfast in classroom;2. Listen to the radio while doing their homework;3. Buy some fast or instant food instead of dining in the dining hall;4. Read books on their way to some places by bus. etc.From the methods we adopt in our daily lives, can we achieve such a conclusion: in order to save time, we always try to finish several tasks at the same time, which is also called multitask.Vlead Ss to focus on some topic sentences; therefore, they may grasp the main ideas of each para, which is helpful to the text division and idea grasping.Fourth periodI. Detailed Text Analysis :( 35 minutes)i. Part one: The topic is figured out by listing some phenomena of the fast pace of modern life.1. The author skillfully includes in the first paragraph his feeling on the modern life. Our teachers can first present the following questions to Ss:1) What does the author mean by saying "We are in a rush. We are making haste. A compression of time characterizes many of our lives"?He inclines to say that our lives today are in the fast lane, and everyone has to be quick.2) Why does the author list a large number of facts in para2-11?They are supportive details, which are used to illustrate author's point in para1.Then, T summarizes those details’ importance in the illustration of the topic.2. Important words and phrases of Part One:haste n. quickness of movement; hurry 急忙；匆忙e.g. Make haste!(= hurry!) 赶快。
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25. nurture:
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care for and educate (a child); encourage the growth of (sth.); nourish Examples: Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.
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deal successfully (with sb./ sth. difficult) Examples: Health psychologists study how people cope with stress.
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3. set about：
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begin（a task）；start（doing sth.） set about sth./doing sth.; no passive） Example: The school authorities must set about finding solutions to the campus security problems.
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37. spring up:
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appear, develop, grow ,etc. quickly or suddenly Examples: New professional training schools sprang up all over the country. Fast food restaurants are spring up all over the city.
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➢ exile特指离开某人的祖国，或因遭到法律上的驱 逐非自愿地离开或因形势不利而自愿地离开，例如:
➢ When the government was overthrown，the
royal family was exiled.
政府被推翻后，皇室遭到驱逐。
➢ expatriate常常是自愿地离开并可能意味着国籍的 改变。
• His sinister threat chilled all who heard it. • 他这一凶恶的威胁使所有听到的人不寒而栗。
• <点拨>sinister. baleful. malign都含有“凶险，邪恶”之意， 但有所区别。
• sinister暗含潜在的危险，有种不祥的预兆，如: • The Kremlin has sinister connotations…The aesthetic
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➢fold away : 1) make something into a smaller, neater shape by folding it, usually several times
• These camping chairs can be folded away and put in the trunk.
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➢Text: A horseman in the sky
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10 然而卡特·德鲁兹却睡着 了。突然，仿佛命运信使拍了拍 他的肩膀，这位年轻人睁开了眼 睛。他抬起头望去，只见在那块 巨大的石崖顶部，有个人正端坐 在马背上。他的第一感觉是一种 强烈的艺术震撼。
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soldierly: a. 有军人气质的；英武
Union Army was hidothinergsu.spects.
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10. But Carter Druse had fallen asleep. Suddenly, as if a messenger of fate came to touch him on the shoulder, the young man opened his eyes. As he lifted his head, he saw a man on horseback standing on the huge rocky cliff. His first feeling was a keen artistic delight. (To be continued)
bushes, growing by the side of the road.
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The purpose of this questionnaire is to increase your awareness of stress in your life.
Detailed Reading
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
Dear Diary Detailed Reading
Questions and Answers
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
1. How does the singer treat his diary? Why?
He treats it as a DfertiaeilenddRe,adtinog whom he can pour out his inmost feelings.
2. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
Questionnaire
Purpose: Directions:
Detailed Reading
Background Information
Richard Tomkins
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Technology
Stress in the Workplace
Before Reading
Global Reading
Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for each other or for themselves.
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
3. I often have neck and/or shoulder pains due to anxiety/stress.
4. I often get upset when I stand in long lines.
5. I often get angry when I listen to the local, national, or world news or read the newspaper.
Dear Diary
Detailed Reading
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
Questions and Answers
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
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6. I do not have a sufficient amount of money for my needs.
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3. What can we infer about the singer’s attitude towards the pace of life today?
It is unwise for peDeotapilleed Rteaodinsgpend days in a rush.
Warm-up Questions
Background Information
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
English Song — Dear Diary
7. I often get upset wDheteainleddReraidvinigng.
8. At the end of a workday, I often feel stress-related fatigue.
Scoring and Interpretation:
Number of “Yes” Answers Stress Category:
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
Unit 6 The Pace of Life After Reading Supplementary Reading
English Song — Dear Diary
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Questionnaire
If you answer “yes” to any of the following stress index questions, just click the sentence.
1. I have frequent arguments.
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2. I often get upset at work.