Unit 6 时间老人 教学课件

1、Unit 6 The Pace of LifeText A Old Father Time Becomes a Terror,海峡学院大学英语教研组,Warm-up Activity,1. Conduct your survey(questions1-4). Each person needs to interview at least 3 students in 5 minutes; 2. Share and summarize your survey results in groups; 3. Discuss question 5 in groups and provide some su

2、ggestions as to how to save your spare time; 4. Prepare 3-5 minutes presentation about your survey and suggestions; 5. Select one of your group memners to deliver your presentation to the class and vote for the best one.,Questions,1. What do you do every day from getting up to going to bed? 2. How m

3、uch time do you spend every day to do what you like? 3. How much time do you spend every day on your studies? 4. Do you think time-stressed? Why? 5. How do you think save your spare time?,Period 1,Objectives,The students will be able to: 1. Learn the main idea of Para 1-6; 2. Learn to distinguish su

4、pporting facts from opinions, and to use both in their own writing; 3. Grasp the key language points in Para 1-6;,Lead-in,Lead-in,Lead-in,Time Stress,Text Understanding,Scanning,Scan Para 1 -2 and find out answers to the following 2 questions.,1. What did we expect from technology in the past?,2. Ho

5、w does technology inflence our life now?,A: We thought technology would make our lives easier.,A: Technology has enslaved us.,Language Points,eat into to damage or destroy 毁坏，侵蚀 Acids (酸)eat into metal, damaging its surface. gradually reduce the amount of sth 吞噬,消耗 Our wedding has eaten into the mon

6、ey we saved. They had to eat into their savings to pay for their house.,And as each invention arrives,it eats futher into our time.,每当一项新的发明问世，就进一步吞噬我们的光阴。,Exercises,P 187 在现代社会里，浪费时间的方式比以往任何时候都要多，各种各样的娱乐消遣（distraction）正在吞噬我们宝贵的时间。 （eat into; waste away） In the modern world, there are more ways than

7、 ever to waste away time, and all kinds of distractions are eating into our precious time.,Text Understanding,Please read through Para 3 to Para 6 and find out the examples the author gave us as well as their disadvantages.,move slowly traffic jams,Time-consuming journey,do more things,Promise to fr

8、ee women from having to toil over the laundry.,The weekly bath,Encourage us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly.,The daily shower,Creat seven times as much washing and ironing.,Multiply the hours spent on personal grooming.,The laptop-on-the beach syndrome,Faxes,Emails,Voicemails,Fix softw

9、are glitches,Text Understanding,spread work into leisure time add new burden spending hours fixing software glitch fill our heads with useless information,China,The Europe,The U.S.,Japan,The transatlantic shopping expedition,Language Points,Language Points,toil v. to work hard and untiringly 辛苦地劳动 t

10、oil for ones living I shall have to toil and moil(辛辛苦苦地工作) all my days. to move with difficulty or pain 艰难地行动 The slaves toiled up the hill pulling the heavy blocks. n. 辛苦，苦工 He succeeded after years of toil. The farmer s toil was rewarded with good crops.,Language Points,multiply: v. increase in nu

11、mber or quantity 增加 Fear multiplies the difficulties of life. add a number to itself a particular number of times 乘 We could multiply the height by the width to determine the area.,Key Words and Phrases,一直，越来越,大量,使困惑，使糊涂,ever-,quantities of,bewilder,辛苦地劳作；艰难地行走,增加，乘,toil,multiply,吞噬，侵蚀,大会，惯例，,eat in

12、to,convention,负担，重负,burden,Main Idea,Please chose a number and complete the corresponding task.,1,1,1,3,3,3,5,5,5,Retelling,Once upon a time, technology were expected to make our life_. (Para 1),.,1 point: please retell the main idea of Para 1 with the following clue.,easier,Retelling,.,Retelling,.,

13、.,1 point: Students in red/blue/yellow/black, please introduce the student on your left in English.,Retelling,.,.,3 point: Tounge Twister Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?,Retelling,technology; liberate; enslave Instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. (Para 2),.,3 points: pl

14、ease retell the main idea of Para 2 with the following key words.,Retelling,technology; save time; do more things Technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. (Para 5),.,3 points: please retell the main idea of Para 5 with the following key words.,Retelling,5 points: please retel

15、l the main idea of Para 3 with the help of the following picture.,Motorcar promised to enhance personal mobility but it actually kept us moving slowly and stuck in traffic jams.(Para 3),Retelling,5 points: please retell the main idea of Para 4 with the help of the following picture.,Aircraft promise

16、d new horizons, but it created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we didnt need before.(Para 4),Retelling,5 points: please retell the main idea of Para 6 with the help of the following key words.,technology; spread into; new burden Technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisu

17、re time but also added new burden to us.(Para 6),Period 2,Objectives,The students will be able to: 1. Learn the main idea of Para 7-11; 2. Grasp the key language points; 3. Finish part of the exercies of this unit.,Text Understanding,Scanning,Scan Para 7 -11 and find out answers to the following que

18、stion.,Whats the second and third reason for our feeling of time stress? What about the first reason?,Rising prosperity,Text Understanding,Parts,Para(s),Main Idea,1,111,The author gives three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today.,Scanning,Scan part one and find out three reasons why we feel so

19、time-pressed today. And make a note of the transitional devices used there. 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ Transitional devices: 1. _ 2. _,Technology,Information explosion(Para7),Rising prosperity(Para 11),apart, a second reason(Para.7),There is another reason(Para.11),Language Point,fraction n. a small part or ite

20、m forming a piece of a whole I can only pay a fraction of my bill. My mother is careful with her money, and spends only a fraction of her earnings.,Language Point,pour in: go into a place quickly and in large numbers The rays of the sun poured in through the window. Many football fans poured into th

21、e stadium to have a look at their favorite football players.,Language Point,comparative: adj. involving comparison or comparing To illustrate my point I have done a comparative analysis. He majored in comparative literature.,Language Point,keep (sb) up with sth: enable sb to know or deal with sth th

22、at is happening or changing very fast They walked so fast that I could not keep me up with them. He made every endeavor to keep himself up with the rest of the class. Its important that we keep up with the times. keep off 不接近,避开 keep up 保持, 继续, 维持, 跟上(时代) keep on 反复地做,继续进行 keep to 坚持,遵守,Language Poi

23、nt,oblige v. 1. do (someone) a favor 帮忙，为.效劳 We are happy to oblige. Please oblige me by leaving me alone. Could you oblige me by closing the door? 2. force (someone to do something) 强制，迫使 In certain countries the law obliges parents to send their children to school. Poverty obliged her to live a ha

24、rd life. be/feel obliged to do sth 觉得必须做或应该做某事 I felt obliged to leave after such an unpleasant quarrel.,Language Point,discontent n. lack of satisfaction There was an expression of discontent on his face. Her discontent with her job made her mother very unhappy.,Key Words and Phrases,指明如何取得特定的结果,爆炸

25、,小部分，一点儿,point the way to,explosion/explode,fraction,跟上形势或了解动态,极小的，极少的,keep sb. up with sth.,minute,大量涌入,比较的，相比的,pour in/into,comparative,Language Point,前沿,frontier,繁荣,prosperity,（为.）效劳;有义务,oblige,对.不满,discontent,Table-completion,An attempt to gain the largest possible amount of satisfaction from th

26、e smallest possible investment of time.,Trying to buy time.,The growth of the work-life debate.,Table-completion,Liberating time is useless if the hours gained are immediately diverted to other purposes.,One is (Para. 19) also(Para. 21) A third reaction(Para. 22),GR_part1_1.1,Scanning,Scan part one

27、and find out three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today. And make a note of the transitional devices used there.,Technology,1. 2. 3.,_,Information explosion,_,Rising prosperity,_,Transitional devices:,apart, a second reason(Para. 7),_,There is another reason(Para. 11),_,1. 2.,Text Organization,

28、GR_part3_1.1,Fill in the chart with a variety of reactions provoked by the perception of the time famine and the trouble with all these reactions. Pay attention to the transitional devices, too.,An attempt to gain the largest possible amount of satisfaction from the smallest possible investment of time,Trying to buy time,Reaction 1,Reaction 2,The growth of the work-life debate,Reaction 3,Table Completion,Text Organization,GR_part3_1.2,Fill