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Title: Unit Six The Pace of Life


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Unit Six The Pace of Life
  • Text A Old Father Time Becomes a Terror
  • Text B Life in the Fast Lane

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Objectives
  • Grasp the main idea and structure of the text
  • Learn to distinguish supporting facts from
    opinions, and to use both in their own writing
  • Master the key language points and grammatical
    structures
  • Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking
    and writing activities related to the theme of
    the unit.

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Contents
  • Part ? Pre-reading Activity
  • Part ? Text A
  • ? New Words
  • ? Structure Analysis
  • ? Language Points
  • Part ? Text B
  • ?Useful Expression
  • ?Questions Answers
  • Part ? Theme-related Task
  • Part ? Assignments

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Part ? Pre-reading Activity
  • Technology
  • The processes by which human beings fashion
    tools and machines to increase their control and
    understanding of the material environment.

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Technology is
Question Will technology really benefits
people or just ruin the civilization on the earth?
  • Historians of science
  • Ordinary people
  • An essential condition of advanced, industrial
    civilization.
  • Free us from heavy handy work.
  • Arouse unexpected social consequences
  • Threaten workers with unemployment
  • Industrialization turns people into parts of a
    huge machine, changes their ways of life.

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Old father time becomes a terror ?????????????
We make innovation(??) on technology to save our
time, but paradoxically (????)we find ourselves
are even more busy with those saved time! Do you
know why?
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New Words
  • 1. on the go (infml) active or busy
  • Examples
  • Ive been on the go all week, preparing my
    thesis.
  • I was on the go all day and went home at about
    10oclocj in the evening.

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  • 2. eat into gradually reduce the amount of
    (sth. Valuable) damage or destroy
  • Examples
  • All these car expenses are eating into our
    savings.
  • Responsibilities at home and work eat into his
    time.
  • Acid eats into the metal damaging its surface,

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  • 3. multiply increase in number or quantity
    add a number to itself a particular number of
    times
  • Examples
  • the weeds just multiplied, and before long the
    garden was a jungle.
  • Multiplying large quantities in ones head has
    become a lost art since the arrival of the
    calculator.

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  • 4. pour ingo into a place quickly and in large
    numbers
  • Examples
  • Tourists poured onto Shanghai on National Day.
  • many football fans poured into the stadium to
    have a look at their favorite football players.

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  • 5. a handful of a small number of the amount
    of sth. That you can hold on your hand
  • Examples
  • Only a handful of graduates have not found jobs
    so far.
  • Despite her productivity, only a handful of
    Dickinsons poems were published before her
    death.
  • She scooped up a handful of snow and pressed it
    hard to make a ball.
  • Ethology is a science concerned with the
    comparative study pf animal behavior.

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  • 6. fractionsmall part, bit, amount or
    proportion(of sth.)
  • Examples
  • Only a small fraction of the population lived in
    that remote area.
  • The black miners in South Africa used to earn
    only a fraction of the wages paid to white miners
    doing equivalent work.

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  • 7. amount tobe equal to add up to
  • Examples
  • In 1959 the combined value of U. S. imports and
    exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the
    countrys gross domestic product.
  • The tuition fee amounts to ten thousand yuan.

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Text Structure
  • Part 1
  • Modern people are time stressed(?????)for three
    reasons, they are
  • Household appliance
  • Laptop-on-the-beach syndrome
  • The information explosion.

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Free time in peoples life
  • UK rose slightly
  • 48 h for working fathers
  • 14 h for working mothers
  • U.S. fell
  • Average 5 h/w
  • Singles empty-nesters got most
  • Working couples with pre-school children the
    least

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Peoples reactions to time stress
  • Reaction 1 Attempt to gain the largest possible
    amount of satisfaction from the smallest possible
    investment of time.
  • Reaction 2 Try to buy time
  • Reaction 3 Hot debate on the work-life. (early
    retirement and family-friendly working policies)

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A remedy for the time stress
  • Fewer Desires

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Post Questions
  • 1?Has technology made our life easier or more
    burdensome? Give examples to illustrate your
    view.
  • 2?The author makes mention of stress envy in
    para.14.What do you think are the possible
    sociological motivation behind it?

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  • 3?Do you agree with the author that all
    time-liberating techniques in relieving the
    widespread sense of time famine are doomed to
    failure? Is cutting back on human desire the
    ultimate solution? Why or why not?

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Words Drill
  • Words List
  • 1) appliance 2) comparative 3) multiply 4)
    oblige 5) prosperity 6) in reality 7)
    aircraft 8) volunteers 9) famine10) a
    handful of 11) distribution 12) large
    quantities of/a large quantity of 13)
    widespread 14) streamline 115) provoke

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  • You can get a loan for essential household
    equipment such as a cooker and a heating (
    ).
  • 2. Conventional medicine has concentrated mainly
    on the treatment of chronic and acute illness,
    and until recently years the role of preventive
    medicine has suffered ( ) neglect.
  • 3. You should remember that a fridge doesnt kill
    bacteria it only slow down the rate at which
    they ( ).

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4. When asked to do us a favor by showing us
around the city. Jack said he was only too happy
to ( ). 5. The town has been
producing wool, cloth, and blankets since the
13th century and much of its ( ) today
is still founded on those industries. 6.If you
compare a striped object with one that has a
different kind of black and white pattern, they
do not appear to be the same size even if, (
), they are identical.
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7. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his
role in the hijacking of a United States Trans
World Airlines ( ). 8. Since it
would probably be a highly dangerous mission, the
lieutenant called for ( ) who would like
to delicate themselves to the noble cause. 9. He
got to his feet, leaving ( )
coins for the bill, and them went out of the
restaurant into the night air.
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10. Despite the limitations of the official
figures, they do provides some indication of the
overall trend in the ( ) of
income. 11. To prevent widespread (
) , the report calls for the development of
new crops adjusted to hotter climates and drier
soils, and above all ,a reduction in population
growth. 12. Carrying ( ) cash
could be dangerous and inconvenient. Why not use
a credit card?
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13. Malnutrition in this region is (
) ----affecting up to 78of children under five
years old. 14. The World Bank has decided to
grant Hungary a loan of 66 million dollars to (
) its financial system. 15. Oil
prices have soared to above thirty dollars a
barrel, their highest level in a decade, which is
almost certain to ( ) another round of
petrol price increases.
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Part ? Text B
  • comprehension Check
  • Choose the best answer for each of the
    following

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  • 1. By comparing culture to one stomped anthill
    Robinson and Godbey mean( ).
  • a. ants have a culture too
  • b. culture is worthless
  • c. people keep rushing around like disturbed
    ants
  • d. people go about their business in an
    orderly way

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  • 2. From the text we can infer that advertisements
    on television have changed as a result of ( ).
  • a. it being easer to switch channels
  • b. the need to appear to children
  • c. shorter commercial breaks
  • d. telephone sales

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  • 3. From the text we can infer that leaving the
    television on while entertaining guests would be
    judged by the author to be ( ).
  • a. an act of rudeness
  • b. a sign of our taste for multitasking
  • c. a way of displaying our wealth
  • d. something everyone does nowadays

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  • 4. The main message of the piece is that todays
    pace of life is something most of us ( ) .
  • a. hate
  • b. enjoy
  • c. feel indifferent about
  • d, do not notice

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  • 5. According to the text, feeling that you have
    too little time is related to your ( ).
  • a. sex
  • b. age
  • c. family size
  • d. education

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  • 6. The author implies that some questions are
    difficult to answer because ( ).
  • a. we do not yet know enough
  • b. we are too impatient
  • c. the ideas on which they are based are
    confused
  • d. they are about very complicated matters

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  • The End
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