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Unit 1 Living a Full Life Unit 1

Living A Full Life

Content

Starting out Reading Focus Reading More Practical Translation Focused Writing Final Project

Starting out—Task 1Task 1 Discuss with members of your group what is/are the most important element(s) for living a full life. You may choose one or more from the following list or provide your own answer. Then give reasons why you have made such a choice. a good appearance close friends a happy mindset a good neighborhood perfect health an absorbing hobby a good job lottery winnings a happy family

Starting out—Task 2

Task 2Your best friend has recently been in low spirits ever since she was diagnosed with COPD (慢性阻塞性肺病). She stays in bed most of the time and misses a lot of classes. She has nothing to do, and moreover wants to do nothing. How would you encourage her to cope with the disease with a positive attitude?

Starting out—Task 2

Here are some suggestions from experts that will enable you to retain (or take back) much of your independence and improve your quality of life. Don’t isolate yourself...reach out to others Stay as physically active as you can Manage your breathing Stick with your treatment plan

Starting out—Task 3

Task 3

Read the letter from John Doe and, with your partner, discuss how you could help him.Dear Abby, I feel like I almost can’t breathe now. I work a ridiculous amount of hours and I don’t have time to relax. My parents live 1,400 miles away and I am here all by myself. I have no time to make friends. Sometimes I feel I don’t even have a life. What should I do? Kind regards, John

Starting out—Task 3Dear John, I used to live a life just like yours. I can see myself in you when I finished my college and started my first job. I found a job as junior reporter for Chicago Daily so I moved from Houston to Chicago. I was working 18 hours a day in a place where I knew few people. My health finally broke down from too much work and poor diet. I stayed in hospital for two weeks. My parents came to Chicago and took care of me. After I was out of hospital, I quitted my job and moved back to Houston, where I found a job in a local newspaper. I visited my parents often and I had time to hang around with my friends whom I had known for years as well as those I newly made. I felt happy finally. So my suggestion is to take some time off your work and go back to visit your parents and friends. Consider changing a job which requires fewer hours so that you may have time to make friends. You may also try to take classes on a subject you are interested in or pursue a hobby. You are sure to find life worth living. Yours, Abby

Starting out

Listen to the passage “Bored to Death” and fill out the blanks.We’ve all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when we’re really at loose ends, we might e

ven say we’re ―bored to death‖ or ―_____________________!‖ We don’t really mean it, of course. so bored I could die But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it ________ seems _______________ possible literally to be bored to death. Researchers in England looked at surveys done in the mid 1980s–several thousand London civil servants questionnaires filled out by _______________________ about their jobs.

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The researchers found that those who’d said that in the previous more than month they were bored at work were _____________________ twice as likely ________________ as other workers to die of a heart problem claimed to over the follow-up period. Workers who ______________ be interested ______________ in their jobs were less likely to die prematurely.

Now, this doesn’t mean that feeling bored ______________ every once _______________ will kill you. We’re talking about chronic in a while boredom, as in being bored all the time.

Starting out

And it’s not necessarily boredom itself that’s deadly. Most probably, according to the study, it’s the fact that being bored often leads to _____________________ such smoking, overeating, drinking, and unhealthy habits abusing drugs.boredom and depression Other studies have linked ________________________–a disease known often to lead to poor health.

Does this mean that being engaged and interested–in other words, leads to better health the opposite of bored–_____________________?Maybe. If not being bored means being physically active and adopting good dietary and exercise habits, then it certainly can’t hurt.

Reading Focus

The Hidden Side of Happiness

Reading Focus

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Background Information Global Understanding Detailed Information Critical Thinking Language Points Vocabulary in Action

Background Information

Watch a clip from The Pursuit of Happyness in which Christopher’s wife just left him. Discuss with your partner how people should pursue happiness.

Click on the picture

Reading Focus – Global Understanding

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2 Body (Paras. 4-17)

3 Conclusion (Para. 18)

Introduction(Paras. 1-3)

Reading Focus – Global Understanding

Introduction Main idea: Many people find that enduring a harrowing ultimately changes them for the better ordeal ________________________________________. There seems to be a built-in human capacity to flourish under the most difficult circumstances _________________________________________________. What doesn’t kill you can actually make you stronger.