How to Cultivate "EQ"?

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How to Cultivate "EQ"?

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Procedure

• 1. Background Knowledge
• 2. Warm-up Activity
• 3. Main Idea
• 4. Text Organization Writing Skill
• 5. Reading Comprehension

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• What are the qualities leading to a successful
  life?
• Do you think its easier for clever people to
  succeed?

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Im a little bird, but I want to fly!
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• What do you know about IQ EQ ?

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• IQ is an abbreviation for intelligence
  quotient, a measure of a persons intellectual
  ability in relation to that of the rest of the
  population. It is expressed as the ratio of
  mental age to actual age, multiplied by 100, and
  is based on the scores achieved in an
  intelligence test.

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Einstein's IQ was around 200 !
40 - 55 Severely challenged (Less than 1 of test takers)
55 - 70 Challenged (2.3 of test takers)
70 - 85 Below average
85 - 115 Average (68 of test takers)
115 - 130 Above average
130 - 145 Gifted (2.3 of test takers)
145 - 160 Genius (Less than 1 of test takers)
160 - 175 Extraordinary genius
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IQ questions(T/F)

• 1. Nine chickens, two dogs, and three cats have a
  total of forty legs.
• 2.A pie can be cut into more than seven pieces by
  making only four diameter cuts through its
  center.
• 3. The word, "mineral," can be spelled using only
  the letters found in the word, "parliament."
• 4. This sequence of four words, "triangle, glove,
  clock, bicycle," corresponds to this sequence of
  numbers "3, 5, 12, 2."
• 5. If Richard looks into a mirror and touches his
  left ear with his right hand, Richard's image
  seems to touch its right ear with its left hand.

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EQ

• Emotional intelligence is a different way of
  being smart. Those emotional skills matter
  immensely - in marriage and families, in career
  and the workplace, for health and happiness.
• Aristotle spoke of the rare ability "to be angry
  with the right person, to the right degree, at
  the right time, for the right purpose, and in the
  right way."

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The best seller in 1995
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• Test your EQ
• Do you recognize your feelings and emotions as
  they happen?
• Are you aware of how you speak to yourself?
• Can you put yourself in a good mood?
• Are you persistent?
• Do setbacks set you back?
• Are you a good listener?
• Do you frequently praise people?
• Are you comfortable with your feelings?
• If your answer is yes, you have pretty high EQ!
  

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• Personal  Competencies
• 1.    Self-Awareness
• 2.   Managing emotion
• 3.    Motivation
• Social Competencies
• 4.    Empathy
• 5.Social skill  

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• Now we have known some information about IQ as
  well as EQ. Both of them are very important for
  us. Then you will see several pictures of those
  people we all know. Discuss with your partner and
  try to rank them according to the degree of IQ
  and EQ. A,B,C,D should be used to show the
  different level. And you are required to choose
  the best three!

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• How to improve my EQ???

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• Please answer the following questions, and then
  try to find out the main idea of the passage.
• 1. Judgment and knowledge. Which one is more
  important according to the author? Why?
• 2. What is the authors suggestion for people who
  want to develop their emotional intelligence?
• 3. Is it possible to develop EQ? If yes, is it
  easy?

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Main Idea
The new research shows that EQ may be crucial
for business success. To cultivate our EQ, our
effort should be aimed at improving four
adaptive skills.As long as we keep at such
effort, we can make it, for they are based on
Our knowledge about the mechanisms of the mind.
Without EQ, IQ alone is worth little.
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EQ is the hot ticket for business success.
Part 1 (Paras. 1-3)
The introduction of EQ.
Four adaptive skills need to be improved to
cultivate EQ.
Part 2 (Paras. 4-8)
Proposals (four skills) to cultivate it.
The four skills are based on the mechanisms of
the mind.
Part 3 (Paras. 9-12)
Why the four skills work.
Part 4 (Para. 13)
Without EQ, academic training alone is worth less
and less.
Conclusion reemphasis on EQ.
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Writing Skill

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV

• General-specific
• Listing (???)
• Explanation (???)
• Metaphor

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Reading Comprehension for PartI

• 1. What stuff do intelligent but inflexible
  people lack according to Daniel Goleman?
• 2. What was reported by Time magazine in a recent
  cover story? There is an example in this part.
  What is it?

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• 1. The adaptive ability.
• 2. Emotions may be the true measure of human
  intelligence. Karen Boylston suggested that
  customers prefer the companies in which they are
  understood and respected.

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Reading Comprehension for PartII

• 1. What should people do to raise their
  consciousness according to the author?
• 2. What does the author mean by using the phrase
  using imagery?
• 3. Why should we consider events again and again?
• 4. Why does the author suggest integrating the
  perspective of others?

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The Adaptive Skills
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Think differently on purpose!I know myself!
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Try to be confident, optimistic and passionate!
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• It isnt events that matter but our opinion of
  them! Just do it!

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Our view of the world is limited!Enlarge your
senses!
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Control your emotion!
Is it good to avoid anger? Whats your way of
expressing frustration?
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Reading Comprehension for PartIII

• 1. What does our ability to think and reason
  involve?
• 2. When did we form a comparatively fixed world
  view according to the leading brain researchers?

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• 1. The author believe that our ability to think
  and reason is not confined to the brain but is
  distributed throughout the bodys cells and we
  think with our hearts, brains, muscles, blood and
  bones.
• 2. In a single crucial three-week period during
  our teenage years.

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Detailed Study

• ------- Language Points

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• 1. What is the most valuable contribution
  employees make to their companies, knowledge or
  judgment? (Para. 1)
• Meaning What is the most important thing
  employees do to make their companies successful?
  Is it knowledge or judgment?
• make a contribution to do sth. to help to cause
  sth.     He made an important contribution to
  the companys success.????????????????

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• 2. indicate that intelligent but inflexible
  people don't have the right stuff in an age when
  the adaptive ability is the key to survival.
  (Para. 2)
• Meaning show that people who are intelligent
  but not flexible to respond to changes don't
  possess the right ability in an age when the
  adaptive ability is important to survival.
• Note that after the word key, a preposition
  to is used. Some nouns are usually followed by
  a prepositional phrase which consists of to and
  a noun group 

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• answer to the question ?????
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• access to all information
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• admission to the university
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• a new approach to teaching
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• damage to the environment
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• solution to the problem
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• preface to the book

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• 3.In a recent cover story, Time magazine sorted
  through the current thinking on
  intelligence(Para. 3)
• sort through look for sth. among a lot of
  similar things, esp. when one arranges these
  things in order 
• She found the ring while sorting through some
  clothes.
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• The directors were working in the room, sorting
  through thirty applications for the managers
  job.

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• 4. If the evolutionary pressures of the
  marketplace are making EQ, not IQ, the hot ticket
  for business success, it seems likely that
  individuals will want to know how to cultivate
  it. (Para. 4)
• Meaning With the development of business, the
  pressures from the market are becoming higher and
  higher and this causes EQ, rather than IQ, to be
  the key to business success. In this case,
  individuals are very likely to want to know how
  to develop and improve EQ.
• the hot ticket here it refers to what is needed
  or suitable to be successful and everyone wants
  it

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• 5. I have a modest proposal Embrace a highly
  personal practice aimed at improving these four
  adaptive skills. (Para. 4)
• Meaning I have a small proposal that we accept
  and believe in wholeheartedly a highly personal
  practice which is intended to improve these four
  adaptive skills.
• embrace v.    1) accept enthusiastically   
  You'd be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as
  good as this.
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• Most of the major West European countries have
  embraced the concept of high speed rail networks.
  
• 2) hold (sb.) tightly with both arms to express
  love, liking or sympathy, or when greeting or
  leaving sb. 
• The mother embraced her baby tenderly.
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• 3) include
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• The term mankind embraces men, women and
  children.

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• 6.Raising consciousness. (Para. 5)
• consciousness n. all the ideas, thoughts,
  feelings, etc. of a person or people interest in
  or knowledge of a particular subject or idea 
• The experience helps to change her social
  consciousness.
• ???????????????? Compare He lost consciousness
  after the accident and never recovered it ever
  since.
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• 7. I think of this as thinking differently on
  purpose. (Para. 5)
• Note some verbs are usually followed by a noun
  group and a prepositional phrase which consists
  of as and a noun group
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• dismiss as ???????
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• 8.It's about noticing what you are feeling and
  thinking and escaping the conditioned confines of
  your past. (Para. 5)
• Meaning It involves becoming aware of what you
  are feeling and thinking and getting free from
  the limitations brought about by your past
  experiences.

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• 9. Raise your consciousness by catching yourself
  in the act of thinking as often as possible.
  (Para. 5)
• Meaning Pay particular attention to thinking
  differently when you are thinking in order to
  raise your consciousness.
• in the act of doing sth. while sb. is doing sth.
  
• He was in the act of paying his bill when she
  came up behind him.
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• I caught her in the act of reading my letters.

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• 10.Using imagery. (Para. 6)
• imagery n. the descriptions in sth. such as a
  poem or song, and the pictures they create in
  one's mind pictures and representations of
  things 
• The imagery in the poem is mostly to do with
  death.
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• Positive thoughts and beliefs and imagery can be
  used in every area of our lives.

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• 11.You can do the same by setting aside time each
  day to dream with passion about what you want to
  achieve. (Para. 6)
• Meaning You can do the same thing by making sure
  that each day you have some time to imagine
  intentionally what you want to achieve.
• set aside save sth. for a special purpose 
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• We try to set aside a bit of money every month.

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• 12. Integrating the perspectives of others.
  (Para. 8)
• Meaning Taking into account the views of other
  people and combine them with yours.
• integrate v. combine two things in such a way
  that one becomes fully a part of the other 

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• integrating private schools into the state
  education system
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• The idea with young children is to integrate
  learning with play.
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• perspective n. a particular way of considering
  sth.    Her attitude lends a fresh perspective
  to the subject.
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• 13.Learning to incorporate the useful
  perspectives of others is nothing less than a
  form of enlarging your senses. (Para. 8)
• Meaning Learning to combine the useful views of
  others with your own is just an important means
  to sharpen your senses and broaden your
  knowledge.
• nothing less than the phrase is used to
  emphasize how great or extreme sth. is 
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• His negligence was nothing less than a crime.

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• incorporate v. include (sth.) in sth. larger 
• The shopping center also incorporates a library
  and a bank.
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• Suggestions from the survey have been
  incorporated into /in the final design.
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• 14.The next time someone interprets something
  differently from you say, a controversial
  political event pause to reflect on the role of
  life experience and consider it a gift of
  perception. (Para. 8)
• Meaning The next time someone has a different
  interpretation of something from ours, for
  example, a political event that causes
  disagreement or discussion, we should think about
  the role of life experience and consider the
  difference as a gift to broaden our perception.

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• reflect on/upon consider (sth.) carefully and at
  length 
• The manager demanded time to reflect on what to
  do.
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• perception n.    one's ability to notice and
  understand things that are not obvious to other
  people, insight 
• The success of the project displayed his
  penetrating perception.
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• 15.The force of habit literally the established
  wiring of your brain will pull you away from
  practicing these skills. (Para. 9)
• Meaning The power of habit, that is, the fixed
  pattern of thinking in your mind, will prevent
  you from practicing these skills. The word
  literally is used for emphasizing the part the
  established wiring of your brain.

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• 16. and every experience triggers a brain
  response that literally shapes our senses. (Para.
  10)
• Meaning and every experience makes a brain
  suddenly give a response that, in fact,
  influences the way our senses develop.

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• trigger v. cause (sth.) to start
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• Some people find that certain foods trigger their
  headaches.
• The racial killings at the weekend have triggered
  off a wave of protests throughout the country.
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• n. the cause of a particular reaction or
  development, esp. a bad one ??,??

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• 17.The mind, we now know, is not confined to the
  brain(Para. 10)
• confine to limit (sth., sb., or oneself) to
  (sth.)
• I don't like a job in which I'm confined to doing
  only one thing.
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• Could you confine your discussion to the matter
  in question?

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• 18.That done, we are biologically wired with
  what one of the nation's leading brain
  researchers calls our own world view. (Para.
  11)
• Meaning When that is finished, what one of the
  nation's leading brain researchers calls our
  view of the world has been shaped /has become
  fixed biologically.

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• 19. So unique is the personal experience that
  people would understand the world differently.
  (Para. 11)
• Note the inversion of the word order after so
  unique 
• So unlikely did his story sound that no one
  believed him.
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• So successful was her business that she was able
  to retire at the age of 50.
• Compare     Such is the popularity of the play
  that the theatre is likely to be full every
  night.

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• 20. But the latest research seems to imply that
  without the software of emotional maturity and
  self-knowledge, the hardware of academic training
  alone is worth less and less. (Para. 13)
• Meaning But the most recent research seems to
  imply that if one has not developed his or her
  emotional intelligence and self-knowledge, his or
  her academic training alone is useless.

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Language Study words expressions

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make a contribution to sort through on
purpose reflect on/upon maturity adapt
effectively to cognitive abilities
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Language Study words expressions
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positively influence a sixth sense scientific
findings shapes ones senses raising
consciousness a Greek philosopher enlarge ones
senses a political event a cover story

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