Unit 6 The pace of life
Unit 6 The Pace of Life
Texta Old father Time becomes a terror 1. Objectives 2. Background 3. Discussion 4. Text structure 5. Language Study 6. Content Questions 7. Essay Writing
Text A: Old Father Time becomes a Terror 1. Objectives 2. Background 3. Discussion 4. Text Structure 5. Language Study 6. Content Questions 7. Essay Writing
Objectives The students will be able to 1. Learn the main idea and structure of the text 2. Learn to distinguish supporting facts from opinions and to use both in their own wrIting, 3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text
Objectives The students will be able to: 1. Learn the main idea and structure of the text; 2. Learn to distinguish supporting facts from opinions, and to use both in their own writing; 3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;
Background Richard Tompkins consumer industries editor of the financial Times where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company,s London headquarters where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends. Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen
Background • Richard Tompkins: consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company’s London headquarters, where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends, Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen
Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver a restaurant cashier. a civil servant and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in 1978 to hitchhike around the world and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter
• Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil servant, and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in1978 to hitchhike around the world, and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter
He joined the Financial Times as a sub editor four years later In this selection he discusses the time squeeze that many people are experiencing and offers a way of combating the problem
• He joined the Financial Times as a subeditor four years later. In this selection, he discusses the time squeeze that many people are experiencing and offers a way of combating the problem
Father Time: Time personified as a very old man, carrying a scythe and an hourglass sound byte: a very brief excerpt from a speech or statement broadcast on television or radio quality time: time spent in active social interaction with another person especially with one's young child
• sound byte: a very brief excerpt from a speech or statement broadcast on television or radio • quality time: time spent in active social interaction with another person, especially with one's young child. Father Time: Time personified as a very old man, carrying a scythe and an hourglass
Discussion 1 Has technology made our life easier or more burdensome? Give examples to illustrate your vieW Everything has two sides. Technology, on the one hand, changes our life completely. It makes our everyday life much easier. We can communicate instantly with the friend on the other side of the world. We can drive to the place of interest anytime convenient to us after tiresome work However, it is notable that technology also makes us burdensome. We are overloaded with so much work created by those modern facilities and equipment
Discussion 1、Has technology made our life easier or more burdensome? Give examples to illustrate your view. • Everything has two sides. Technology, on the one hand, changes our life completely. It makes our everyday life much easier. We can communicate instantly with the friend on the other side of the world. We can drive to the place of interest anytime convenient to us after tiresome work. However, it is notable that technology also makes us burdensome. We are overloaded with so much work created by those modern facilities and equipment
2、 The author makes mention of“ stress envy"in para. 14. What do you think are the possible sociological motivation behind it? Today's world is so competitive that everyone is in a rush to make a better station for himself. People are chained down by the lust to be somebody. They try to appear busy to show to others they are working hard. If you are not busy, maybe you are considered a man of no future
2、The author makes mention of “stress envy” in para.14.What do you think are the possible sociological motivation behind it? • Today's world is so competitive that everyone is in a rush to make a better station for himself. People are chained down by the lust to be somebody. They try to appear busy to show to others they are working hard. If you are not busy, maybe you are considered a man of no future
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? Yes, the only way out is to revert to our natural way of life, to escape from the pursuit of the lofty desires in our lives
3、Do you agree with the author that all timeliberating 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? • Yes, the only way out is to revert to our natural way of life, to escape from the pursuit of the lofty desires in our lives
