当代研究生英语(下)课件_第一单元

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在这些变化和转折中，我们对生活方式的看法要 经历四个感知方面的微妙变化：第一，在内心中 对自己和他人的看法；第二，在生活的各种威胁 面前所具有的安全感；第三是我们对时间的认识， 是感到来日方长，还是开始感到时日无多？最后 是对自己的精力和活力的直觉意识，是感到精力 充沛，还是感到力不从心？这些都是在我们内心 里产生的若明若暗的感觉，它们构成了我们生活 的基调，影响着我们采取行动前的种种决定。
stages. What are they? 1. pulling up roots(before 18) 2. the trying twenties 3. catch-30 4. rooting and extending(in the early thirties) 5. deadline decade(35-45) 6. renewal or resignation(54-50) Scan text A and Text B, and find main features for each stage .
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4 The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our own distinctiveness.
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Reading—Text A
Main Idea & Structure Text Study
Sentence Analysis Language Points
Useful Expressions Text Translation
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3 During each of these passages, how we feel about our way of living will undergo subtle changes in four areas of perception. One is the interior sense of self in relation to others. A second is the proportion of safeness to danger we feel in our lives. A third is our perception of time—do we have plenty of it, or are we beginning to feel that time is running out? Last, there will be some shift at the gut level in our sense of aliveness or stagnation. These are the hazy sensations that compose the background tone of living and shape the decisions on which we take action.
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Main Idea
The author probes into the two periods in human life: the teenage and the twenties. The teenage period is featured by young people striving to be independent of their family, but still feeling a bit uncertain about themselves. The next period is characterized with young people beginning to think seriously about starting their life and work. They begin to choose and make decisions, but still not rational enough and quite often with illusions.
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Span of life
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Discussion
Have a 5-minute discussion with your partners on the following topics:
1.Talk about your past experiences, and try to find striking features at different stages.
2 The inner realm is where the crucial shifts in bedrock begin to throw a person off balance, signaling the necessity to change and move on to a new footing in the next stage of development. These shifts occur throughout life, yet people consistently refuse to recognize that they possess an internal life system. Ask anyone
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who seems down, “Why are you feeling low?” Most will displace the inner message onto a marker event: “I’ve been down since we moved, since I changed jobs, since my wife went back to graduate school and turned into a damn social worker in sackcloth,” and so on. Probably less than ten percent would say: “There is some unknown disturbance within me, and even though it’s painful, I feel I have to stay with it and ride it out.” Even fewer people would be able to explain that the turbulence they feel may have no external cause. And yet it may not resolve itself for several years.
Reading and Writing
Unit 1
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Text A PASSAGES OF
HUMAN GROWTH (I)
—— Gail Sheehy
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Introduction
What does “passage” indicate in our text? Gail Sheehy divides the development of our lives into six
2. Can you tell a particular period in your life that you like best? Why?
3.What is your definition of successful life? How do you predict your future life?
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Structure
Para. 5-10
Main idea: The teenage period: young people try to get away from the family.
Para. 11-19
Main idea: The Twenties: people in this period face enormous tasks. To shape a dream is the most important one among these tasks.
Pulling Up Roots 自立之年
5 Before 18, the motto is loud and clear: “I have to get away from my parents.” But the words are seldom connected to action. Generally still safely part of our families, even if away at school, we feel our autonomy to be subject to erosion from moment to moment.
Main Idea
First reading: Scan the text and try to catch the main idea. :
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Second reading: read the passage again and try to
identify the structure of this passage.
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Para. 1-4
Main idea: A person’s life incorporates both external and internal aspects, and the inner realm is where the crucial shifts in bedrock take places.
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Text Study
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1 A person’s life at any given time incorporates both external and internal aspects. The external system is composed of our memberships in the culture: our job, social class, family and social roles, how we present ourselves to and participate in the world. The interior realm concerns the meanings this participation has for each of us. In what ways are our values, goals, and aspirations being invigorated or violated by our present life system? How many parts of our personality can we live out(过活，实践), and what parts are we suppressing? How do we feel about our way of living in the world at any given time?