全新版大学英语第二册第四册unit 6

Unit 6

Unit 6 The Pace of Life

Before Reading

An English Song– Dear Diary Dear Diary

Questions and Answers Questionnaire

Warm-up Questions

Background Information Richard Tomkins Technology

Stress in the Workplace

Global Reading

Part Division of the Text Further Understanding For Part 1 Scanning Blank-filling For Part 2 True or False For Part 3 Table-completion

For Part 4 Questions and Answers

Detailed Reading After Reading

Vocabulary

Useful Expressions Scanning

Sentence Translation Dictation Discussion

Talk about the Pictures Writing Practice

Proverbs and Quotations

Supplementary Reading

Culture Notes Reading

Comprehension Task

Before Reading

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1 English Song– Dear Diary Dear Diary

Dear Diary

The Moody Blues

Dear diary, what a day it's been. Dear diary, it's been just like a dream.

Woke up late. Wasn't where I should have been. For goodness sake what's happening to me. Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.

It was cold outside my door. So many people by the score. Rushing around so senselessly.

They don't notice there's people like me. Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.

They don't know what they're playing.

They've no way of knowing what the game is. Still they carry on doing what they can. Outside me, yours truly, dear diary.

It's over. Will tomorrow be the same? I know that they're really not to blame.

If they weren't so blind then surely they'd see. There's a much better way for them to be. Inside me, yours truly, dear diary.

Somebody exploded an H-bomb today. But it wasn't anyone I knew.

Questions and Answers

1. How does the singer treat his diary? Why?

(=He treats it as a friend, to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings.) 2. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?

(=He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for

each other or for themselves.)

3. What can we infer about the singer’s attitude towards the pace of life today? (=It is unwise for people to spend days in a rush.)

2. Questionnaire

Questionnaire Purpose:

The purpose of this questionnaire is to increase your awareness of stress in your life.

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Directions:

Answer \

_____ 1. I have frequent arguments. _____ 2. I often get upset at work.

_____ 3. I often have neck and/or shoulder pains due to anxiety/stress. _____ 4. I often get upset when I stand in long lines.

_____ 5. I often get angry when I listen to the local, national, or world news or read the

newspaper.

_____ 6. I do not have a sufficient amount of money for my needs. _____ 7. I often get upset when driving.

_____ 8. At the end of a workday I often feel stress-related fatigue.

_____ 9. I have at least one constant source of stress/anxiety in my life (e.g., conflict with

boss, Neighbor, mother-in-law, etc.).

_____ 10. I often have stress-related headaches.

_____ 11. I do not practice stress management techniques. _____ 12. I rarely take time for myself.

_____ 13. I have difficulty in keeping my feelings of anger and hostility under control. _____ 14. I have difficulty in managing time wisely. _____ 15. I often have difficulty sleeping. _____ 16. I am generally in a hurry.

_____ 17. I usually feel that there is not enough time in the day to accomplish what I

need to do.

_____ 18. I often feel that I am being mistreated by friends or associates. _____ 19. I do not regularly perform physical activity. _____ 20. I rarely get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. Scoring and Interpretation:

Answering \management techniques.

Add your \life.

Number of \6 - 20 High stress 3 - 5 Average stress 0 - 2 Low stress

3 Warm-up Questions

(Direction:) Read the following short passage and discuss the questions.

―Now psychologists look at our view of time another way. They go into several countries and measure the pace of life. They measure the accuracy of bank clocks and how fast city dwellers walk. They time transactions in banks and post offices. They see how long people take to answer questions.

Japanese keep the fastest pace. Americans are a close second. Italians and Indonesians are at the bottom of the list. …

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Finally, we look at heart disease. That's tricky, because other factors are involved. Our heart's greatest enemy is tobacco. But heart disease also correlates with the pace we keep. Smokers who drive themselves are really asking for it.‖

1. What do you think keep people in some countries so busy? 2. What might be the acute/major problems facing people today?(Possible answers: 1. Tension—Physical, mental, emotional

2. Health problems—Physical, mental and emotional diseases 3. Ecological pollution/Rupture in ozone layer 4. Disturbed family relations 5. Violence and cruelty

6. Corruption / Dishonesty / Immorality 7. Drug-addiction

8. Neglect of law & order and ethical, moral and social discipline 9. Armaments/Nuclear weapons (Militarism)

3. Compared with people’s life in ancient times, what have new technology, the

information explosion and rising economy really brought to us?

4 Background Information

Richard Tomkins

Richard Tomkins, consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. (=Financial Times includes business and financial news and analysis. To know it better, log on the followin …… 此处隐藏：4909字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……