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RDADING COURSE 2

RDADING COURSE 2. Unit 8 Attitide Towards Life. General Schedule. In class: 1. Section A: pretest / Text I / Reading Comprehension (P107-111) 2. Section B (P114-117) 3. More on Vocabulary building (P111-113) 4.Check Exercises on Section C. After Class:

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RDADING COURSE 2

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  1. RDADING COURSE 2 Unit 8 Attitide Towards Life

  2. General Schedule In class: • 1. Section A: pretest / Text I / Reading Comprehension (P107-111) • 2. Section B (P114-117) • 3. More on Vocabulary building (P111-113) • 4.Check Exercises on Section C

  3. After Class: • 1.Find more words about reading. • 2.Section C (P118-121) • 3.Discussion question

  4. Section A Text I

  5. Lead-in • Look at the following cartoons and try to figure out what kind of attitude is depicted?

  6. Detoxify:使解毒

  7. Comprehension Questions • 1.What does the very first sentence of the first paragraph suggest? • 2.What does the first example following the first paragraph try to illustrate? • 3.How would you interprete the three basic types of attitudes? • 4.What does the attitude of the woman in the second example suggest? • 5. What does “elevate your lives” in line 52 mean? Does it mean positively or negatively?

  8. Useful expressions • Inner attitudes and consciousness 内在的态度与意识 • Psycological adjustment 心理调整 • Indifference towards others 对他人漠不关心 • Positive attitudes 积极的态度 • Negative attitudes 消极的态度 • Turn one’s life around 使生活发生大转变 • Change for the better 朝好的方面发展 • In the course of the day 在一天之中

  9. Language points

  10. turn sth/sb down • to refuse an offer or request: • He offered her a trip to Australia but she turned it/him down. • He turned down the job because it involved too much travelling.

  11. in kind fml • If you do something in kind, you do the same thing to someone that they have just done to you. • she pays him back in kind.

  12. elicit fml.  • to obtain or produce something, especially information or a reaction: • Have you managed to elicit a response from them yet? • The questionnaire was intended to elicit information on eating habits. • They were able to elicit the support of the public.

  13. elevate fml. • to make someone or something more important or to improve something: • They want to elevate the status of teachers.These factors helped to elevate the town into the list of the ten most attractive in the country.

  14. accountable • Someone who is accountable is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reason for it: • The recent tax reforms have made government more accountable for its spending. • Politicians should be accountable to the public who elected them.

  15. Vocabulary Building

  16. Semantic Variations • For each italicized word in the sentence given, decide which semantic variation best exresseses the meaning of the author of the sentence. Circle the letter of the best answer.

  17. 1. She was struckdumb by what she had seen. • A. unable to speak • B. unwilling to speak • C. stupid

  18. 2. Through the Hong Kong Coaching Committee, more than 4000 participants have attended coach training programmes in the past four years. • A. a long distance bus • B. a person who trains sportsmen or sportswomen • C. a railway passenger carriage

  19. 3. I've always believed that happiness counts more than money. • A. to say or name the numbers in order • B. to have value, force, importance or influence • C. to include when finding a total

  20. 4. You have to be tough to be successful in politics. • A. able to suffer difficult or severe condition • B. difficult to deal with • C. rough, without kind or sympathetic feelings

  21. 5. He has a fairly positive outlookon life. • A. a view from a particular place • B. future probabilities • C.one’s general point of view

  22. 6. In spoken English, 'do not' often contracts to 'don't.' • A. to become smaller • B. to get to begin to have sth bad • C. to arrange by formal agreement

  23. Antonyms • Circle the one word in each of the following groups that is the antonym of the other three. • 1. vanish disappear appear fade • 2. reluctant unwilling hesitant ready • 3. expose disclose hide uncover • 4. clumsy incompetent skillful awkard • 5. deliberate careless intentional purposeful

  24. Section B • Assets and liabilities 优缺点 • Direct confrontation with nature 与自然的直接冲突 • Hurry-up city tempo 匆匆忙忙的节奏 • Venture into a land 贸然进入…… • Ups and downs 沉浮， 盛衰 • Inter-personal relationship 人际关系 • Irrevocably damaged 不可逆转地破坏

  25. Section C • Strenuous life for successful life 为成功而奋斗 • Pay the price 付出代价 • Mess things up 没把事情办好 • Dumb mistakes 愚蠢的错误 • Thin thread of determination 仅有的一点决心 • Dress out 打扮 • Burning desire 强烈的愿望 • Battered lookout on life 对生活绝望 • Contract disease 感染疾病

  26. Discussion Question • In what way do you think attitudes affect our life? Do you think you have adopted the right attitude towards life and study? How would you change it if there is such a need?

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