Unit 4. Book 1 Reading activities Pre-reading activities While-reading activities Post-reading activities
Unit 4, Book 1 Reading Activities ◼ Pre-reading activities ◼ While-reading activities ◼ Post-reading activities
Pre-reading activities 1. Background information EQ (Emotional Quotient) is vital to your success of career. It is defined as the mental ability you are born with which gives you your emotional sensitivity and your potential for emotional learning management skills which can help you maximize your long term health, happiness and survival. Emotional intelligence gives you a competitive edge. Having great intellectual abilities may make you a superb fiscal analyst or legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence will make you a candidate for CEO or a brilliant trial lawyer. An analysis of the personality traits that accompany high iQ in men who also lack these emotional competencies portrays, well, the stereotypical
Pre-reading activities 1. Background information EQ (Emotional Quotient) is vital to your success of career. It is defined as the mental ability you are born with which gives you your emotional sensitivity and your potential for emotional learning management skills which can help you maximize your long term health, happiness and survival. Emotional intelligence gives you a competitive edge. Having great intellectual abilities may make you a superb fiscal analyst or legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence will make you a candidate for CEO or a brilliant trial lawyer. An analysis of the personality traits that accompany high IQ in men who also lack these emotional competencies portrays, well, the stereotypical
nerd: critical and condescending. emotionally bland by contrast. men with the traits that mark emotional intelligence are poised and outgoing, committed to people and causes, sympathetic and caring, with a rich but appropriate emotional life --they re comfortable with themselves, others, and the social universe they live in EQ involves the ability to perceive and identify emotions in faces, tone of voice body language. If you know how to perceive and identify emotions in people's behavior, you may know how to behave in the best way to reveal the emotions you want to convey to others, that is, you know how to make a good impression on others. This is the first step to success
nerd: critical and condescending, emotionally bland. By contrast, men with the traits that mark emotional intelligence are poised and outgoing, committed to people and causes, sympathetic and caring, with a rich but appropriate emotional life -- they're comfortable with themselves, others, and the social universe they live in. EQ involves the ability to perceive and identify emotions in faces, tone of voice, body language. If you know how to perceive and identify emotions in people’s behavior, you may know how to behave in the best way to reveal the emotions you want to convey to others, that is, you know how to make a good impression on others. This is the first step to success
2. Lead-in activity Before reading the passage, according to the title"How to make a good impression. discuss in groups the way to making a good impression. We shall see which group will get the most. This group will get a little prize
2. Lead-in activity Before reading the passage, according to the title “How to make a good impression”, discuss in groups the way to making a good impression. We shall see which group will get the most. This group will get a little prize
While-reading activities 1. Words and phrases 2. Language points 3. Text structure analysis
While-reading activities 1. Words and phrases 2. Language points 3. Text structure analysis
1. Words and phrases Impression He has told me his plan and he has made a good Impression on me 2)I have the impression that he's not pleased 动词: Impress 1)She's always trying to impress people with her new clothes Conscious The children were conscious of their mother 's unhappiness 2) He was badly hurt, but he remained conscious
1. Words and phrases Impression 1) He has told me his plan and he has made a good impression on me. 2) I have the impression that he’s not pleased. 动词：impress 1) She’s always trying to impress people with her new clothes. Conscious 1) The children were conscious of their mother’s unhappiness. 2) He was badly hurt, but he remained conscious
Attitude What is your attitude to her work? Reaction What's his reaction to your idea? Range Prices range from $10 to $25 2) There are 80 students whose ages range from 20 to 40 3) They can take part in a wide range of free time activities 4 We are within range of their guns Focus We must focus on our sales force as the chief means of improving trade 2)The children's attention was focused on the stage
Attitude What is your attitude to her work? Reaction What’s his reaction to your idea? Range 1) Prices range from $10 to $25. 2) There are 80 students whose ages range from 20 to 40. 3) They can take part in a wide range of free time activities. 4) We are within range of their guns. Focus 1) We must focus on our sales force as the chief means of improving trade. 2) The children’s attention was focused on the stage
Absorb ) This material absorbs water 2) History is a subject that absorbs her 3)The artist was so absorbed in her work that she didn't't hear her visitor enter the room 4) Time passes quickly when you are absorbed in reading a good book Consistent 1) He was consistent in arriving late 2) The second statement is not consistent with the first one Committed meaning: spending time or energy on sth / giving attention to 1)He is very committed to the cause of language teaching
Absorb 1) This material absorbs water. 2) History is a subject that absorbs her. 3) The artist was so absorbed in her work that she didn't’t hear her visitor enter the room. 4) Time passes quickly when you are absorbed in reading a good book. Consistent 1) He was consistent in arriving late. 2) The second statement is not consistent with the first one. Committed meaning: spending time or energy on sth./ giving attention to 1) He is very committed to the cause of language teaching
2) If you want to become an actor, you really have to commit yourself to it Presentation: the presenting of something表现,描述 I was asked to give a short presentation on the aims of the plan 他们要求我就这计划的目的作一个简短的陈述。 Rate 1)the speed with which something happens or is done E 速率 He works at a very fast rate 他工作的速度非常快 2)the number of occasion within a certain period of time when something happens比率,率 There is a high accident rate in this factory 这个工厂的事故率很高
2) If you want to become an actor, you really have to commit yourself to it. Presentation: the presenting of something 表现，描述 I was asked to give a short presentation on the aims of the plan. 他们要求我就这计划的目的作一个简短的陈述。 Rate 1) the speed with which something happens or is done速度， 速率 He works at a very fast rate. 他工作的速度非常快。 2) the number of occasion within a certain period of time when something happens 比率，率 There is a high accident rate in this factory. 这个工厂的事故率很高
Depress! make someone unhappy.使抑郁,使沮丧 )The thought of going to work tomorrow really depresses me想到明天要上班我就心烦。 2)He's been very depressed since he lost his job 自失去工作以来他心情一直不好。 Roar: make a loud, deep sound;大声叫喊,咆哮 He roared with laughter at the joke 听到这笑话,他哈哈大笑。 Drive someone crazy: make someone feel very angry or annoyed;,逼得某人发疯,或受不了 His lack of order drove his girlfriend crazy 他的不修边幅令他的女友受不了。 At one's best: in one's best state or condition 处于最佳状态,在全盛时期 This is an example of his work at its best 这代表了他最佳时期的作品
Depress: make someone unhappy使抑郁，使沮丧 1) The thought of going to work tomorrow really depresses me.想到明天要上班我就心烦。 2) He's been very depressed since he lost his job. 自失去工作以来他心情一直不好。 Roar: make a loud, deep sound; 大声叫喊，咆哮 He roared with laughter at the joke. 听到这笑话，他哈哈大笑。 Drive someone crazy:make someone feel very angry or annoyed; 逼得某人发疯，或受不了 His lack of order drove his girlfriend crazy. 他的不修边幅令他的女友受不了。 At one’s best: in one's best state or condition 处于最佳状态，在全盛时期 This is an example of his work at its best. 这代表了他最佳时期的作品