学术英语(社科)-Unit-2含答案
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academic purpose
• Specialized vocabulary • Collocations • Formal and informal English • Signpost language
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Economics and economists are the same; they use observation and theory, e.g. a theory of inflation.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Economics
Lead-in
Just as you cannot become a mathematician overnight, study economics and learn to think like an economist will take time. However who studies economics?
学术英语 社科
Academic English for Social Sciences
2
Economist
Just as you cannot become a mathematician, psychologist, or lawyer overnight, learning to think like an economist will take time. However, what is the economist’s way of thinking? What does it mean to think like an economist? By learning this unit, you will find the answers.
→ “Science is all just about improving everyday thinking.”
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Task 1 Listen to a talk “Who studies economics?” and complete the sentences.
Unit 2
Economics
Lead-in
1 Economics can seem __a_b_s_t_ra_c_t__ at first, but the field is fundamentally very __p_ra_c_t_ic_a_l_.
UnitLeabharlann Baidu2
Economics
Lead-in
Task 2 Listen to the talk again and complete the following table.
Name Ronald Regan Michael Kinsley Steve Ballmer Mick Jagger
Profession
2 Mick Jagger once studied at ___th_e__L_o_n_d_o_n_S_c_h_o_o_l_o_f_E_c_o_n_o_m__ic_s_.
3 When asked in 2005 why The Rolling Stones were going
on tour again, Mick Jagger replied, “__S__u_p_p_ly_a_n_d__d_e_m_a_n_d_______.”
Text Analysis
Thesis: Economics is a science. The economist works as a scientist.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
1 Science and scientists have its own language, e.g. math, psychology, law.
Unit 2
Economics
Unit Contents
• Lead-in • Text A • Text B • Text C • Listening • Speaking • Writing
Unit 2
Economics
• Lead-in – Who studies economics?
Unit 2
Natural sciences or Social sciences?
Economics is a social science.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Difficult sentences
“The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.” (Para. 4)
Former President of the United States Journalist
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
Singer for the Rolling Stones
Unit 2
Economics
• Text A
–Critical reading and thinking – Difficult sentences – English language for
Economics and economists are the same, e.g. supply, demand, elasticity, consumer surplus.
2 Science and scientists use scientific method, e.g. observation, devise theories, collect data, analyze, test, shown with the example of Isaac Newton.
• Specialized vocabulary • Collocations • Formal and informal English • Signpost language
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Economics and economists are the same; they use observation and theory, e.g. a theory of inflation.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
Economics
Lead-in
Just as you cannot become a mathematician overnight, study economics and learn to think like an economist will take time. However who studies economics?
学术英语 社科
Academic English for Social Sciences
2
Economist
Just as you cannot become a mathematician, psychologist, or lawyer overnight, learning to think like an economist will take time. However, what is the economist’s way of thinking? What does it mean to think like an economist? By learning this unit, you will find the answers.
→ “Science is all just about improving everyday thinking.”
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Task 1 Listen to a talk “Who studies economics?” and complete the sentences.
Unit 2
Economics
Lead-in
1 Economics can seem __a_b_s_t_ra_c_t__ at first, but the field is fundamentally very __p_ra_c_t_ic_a_l_.
UnitLeabharlann Baidu2
Economics
Lead-in
Task 2 Listen to the talk again and complete the following table.
Name Ronald Regan Michael Kinsley Steve Ballmer Mick Jagger
Profession
2 Mick Jagger once studied at ___th_e__L_o_n_d_o_n_S_c_h_o_o_l_o_f_E_c_o_n_o_m__ic_s_.
3 When asked in 2005 why The Rolling Stones were going
on tour again, Mick Jagger replied, “__S__u_p_p_ly_a_n_d__d_e_m_a_n_d_______.”
Text Analysis
Thesis: Economics is a science. The economist works as a scientist.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Critical reading and thinking of Text A
1 Science and scientists have its own language, e.g. math, psychology, law.
Unit 2
Economics
Unit Contents
• Lead-in • Text A • Text B • Text C • Listening • Speaking • Writing
Unit 2
Economics
• Lead-in – Who studies economics?
Unit 2
Natural sciences or Social sciences?
Economics is a social science.
Unit 2
Economics
Text A
Difficult sentences
“The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.” (Para. 4)
Former President of the United States Journalist
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
Singer for the Rolling Stones
Unit 2
Economics
• Text A
–Critical reading and thinking – Difficult sentences – English language for
Economics and economists are the same, e.g. supply, demand, elasticity, consumer surplus.
2 Science and scientists use scientific method, e.g. observation, devise theories, collect data, analyze, test, shown with the example of Isaac Newton.