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,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Unit 5,The Company Man,1/62,Teaching Plan,Total duration:9 periods,Background information,+Text analysis:3 periods,Comprehension+appreciation,+Language points:4 periods,Discussion and interaction:1 period,Exercises+Revision:1 period,2/62,Teaching Objectives,3/62,Objective 1,To familiarize the students the rhetorical features of the text:repetition of key sentences,phrases and words,4/62,Objective 2,To help students understand how a text achieves coherence with a variety of cohesive devices ranging from repetition,reference,substitution,ellipsis to conjunction,5/62,Objective 3,Language points:,variation of length of sentences,Key words,phrases and structures,6/62,1.Duty Report(1 period),7/62,Background,The author:,Ellen Goodman,8/62,Ellen Goodman(1941-),journalist and columnist who writes for,Newsweek,the,Detroit Free Press,and the,Boston Globe,.,graduated(cum laude)from Radcliffe College.She was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1980.She began her working career in 1963.She was named,newspaper woman of the year,by the New England Press Association in 1968,and,columnist of the year,by the New England Womens Press Association in 1975.,9/62,Since 1979,Goodman has published five collections of her columns dealing with contemporary themes:,Close to Home;,At Large;,Keeping in Touch;,Making Sense;,Value Judgments,.,Her Pulitzer Prize winning commentary appears in more than 375 newspapers.,10/62,Goodman has a strong interest in social changes.She has discussed family,politics,ethics and male and female relationships.,Her columns have won vast numbers of readers for their keen,insightful observations and clever wit.She writes about what is in the news,on her mind,and of concern to women and men across the country.,11/62,The Company Man,This essay is taken from,Close to Home,.It describes a workaholic,the vice president of a company,who works himself to death and leaves behind a wife and three adult children.,12/62,How does Goodman describe a company man?,She defines the company man by using a single example of a person whose clothing,eating habits,and relationships with his family are all characterized by work.,13/62,How does Goodman satirize workaholism?,Goodman satirizes workaholism by ending the essay with the presidents requirement for another workaholic.,14/62,Type A&Type B Personality,Friedman and Rosenman(1959)conducted studies on the link between,stress and heart disease,.One of the outcomes was the discovery of Type A and Type B personalities.,15/62,Type A,People who are classified as having Type A personality have characteristics like:,highly active,competitive,aggressive,hostile,impatient,fast talking and thinking.,16/62,Type A,T,hey have a sense of time urgency,find it difficult to relax,and often become impatient and angry when they get delayed(or if they are going to be late)or are around other people whom they view as incompetent.It is assumed that,Type A people tend to have more risk of heart disease than Type B people.,17/62,Type B,People who are classified as having,Type B,personality are better at relaxing without feeling guilty and working without becoming anxious or agitated.Some of the other characteristics include being more relaxed about time(they dont get overly stressed about being late),and are not easily angered.,18/62,Type B,You probably know people who just seemed to be relaxed people who dont get angry often;these are the characteristics of a Type B.,They are the opposite of Type A people,.,19/62,Which do you generally belong to,Type A or Type B personality?,What effect does your personality bring about to your life?,20/62,What do you know about,workaholism?,21/62,Workaholism,Workaholism is a modern addiction.Many people have been afflicted by it.,The cause of workaholism is that professional achievements are tied up with self-image.,22/62,Structure of“,workaholism”,The phenomenon is so widespread and its social consequences so damaging that it has acquired the nickname,workaholism,a combination of the words work and alcoholism.,23/62,Can you name some features,of a,workaholic,?,24/62,They resist taking breaks or rewarding themselves with vacations.If they must take vacations,theyre likely to be highly organized and goal-oriented.,The workaholic pushes and pushes,and as he is approaching his goal,he needs another one to work towards.,A workaholic is not able to stop and enjoy his accomplishments,.,25/62,Workaholics,Workaholics believe that,by working longer hours and completing more projects,they will enhance their self-worth.,Workaholics think about work constantly and,if unable to work,feel panicky or depressed.,26/62,Workaholics have high expectations of their work,and their single-minded focus on work negatively impacts other areas of their lives such as family and leisure.,27/62,Group work:discussion,What is the cause of workaholism?,What pressures do you think are company staff under?Name a few of them.,28/62,1.Pressure from work：not enough rest;endless work to fulfill even on holidays.,2.Pressure from competition of new staff：competent new comers in the company bring about great pressure for the present ones.,3.Pressure of ones own further development:these cause pressure and makes some white-collar workers worried.Some even recharge themselves while working.,4.Pressure from feeling:unsatisfying problems in family.Some are faced with divorce,marriage,remarry.All these impose pressures,because they make it difficult to concentrate on ones work.,5.Pressure from interpersonal relationship:office philosophy,29/62,The Text,30/62,Lead-in,Pre-reading Questions(Discussion),What do you think is the life of a typical workaholic like?,How important do you think work is to a person?,31/62,Structural Analysis,How many parts of the text?,What is the general idea of each part?,32/62,Three Parts,33/62,Part 1,(Paragraph 1-6):,Introductory part.This part reports the sudden death of Phil and his devotion to work.,34/62,Part 2,(Paragraph 7-13):,Phils role in family,his relationship with his wife and his children is described.,35/62,Part 3,(Paragraph 14-16),The funeral.The writer restates the cause of Phils death,and the presidents tendency in his choice of a successor to Phil.,36/62,Text Analysis,37/62,Part 1,Paragraph 1-6.,Questions to think about,:,What can you learn from the first paragraph?,He worked himself to death,finally and precisely,at 3:00 a.m.Sunday morning.,What are the functions of the two adverbs“finally and precisely”in this sentence?,38/62,The 1st sentence provides information concerning“who”,“what”,“how”and“when”.,“Finally”suggests the tragic ending of Phil.,“Precisely”highlights the exact time of Phils death,thus stressing his devotion to work.,39/62,Language points in Part 1,precise a.precisely ad.precision n.,coronary,conceivably,executive,40/62,precise a.precisely ad.precision n.,1.precise information,details etc are exact,clear,and correct synonym:exact,sales figures,It was difficult to get information.,Shes a lot older than you,isnt she?Fifteen years,to be.,41/62,2.only before n.used to emphasize that you are referring to an exact thing.synonym:exact,At that moment,her husband walked in.,The cause of the disease is unknown.,the location of the ship;,the nature of their agreement,someone who is,precise,is very careful about small details or about the way they behave,a,careful woman,with movements of his hands,42/62,coronary,a.relating to the heart,synonym cardiac,coronary disease,coronary artery:one of the two arteries that supply blood to the heart,coronary thrombosis:a disease which causes someones heart to suddenly stop working,because the flow of blood to it has been blocked by a small piece of solid blood,43/62,n.plural.,coronaries,countable informal synonym heart attack,if someone has a coronary,their heart,suddenly stops working because the flow of blood to it has been blocked by a small piece of solid blood,44/62,conceivable,a.conceive v.conception n.,able to be believed or imagined opposite inconceivable,It is that,you may get full compensation,but its not likely.,We were discussing the problems from,every,angle.,conceivably ad.,interest rates could rise very high indeed.,45/62,executive,n.countable,1.a manager in an organization or company who helps make important decisions,a marketing executive senior/top executive top executives on high salaries,see also Chief Executive,2 the executive:the part of a government that makes sure decisions and laws work well,3(British English)a group of people who are in charge of an organization and make the rules,the unions executive,46/62,executive,a.only before noun,1 relating to the job of managing a business or,organization and making decisions,a commission with executive powers,executive body/committee etc(=a group of people,who have the power to make decisions),2 for the use of people who have important jobs in a,company,the executive dining-room,3 expensive and designed for people who earn a lot of,money,executive cars/homes etc;,executive toys(=objects to play with at work),47/62,Part 2,Questions for consideration,1.Can you describe the relationship between Phil and his wife and his children?,2.Why did Phils wife try to conceal her bitterness in front of the president at the funeral?,She was concerned about her financial situation after her husband died.,Phil provided well for his widow.,48/62,Language points in Part 2,survive,marketable,mothering,widow,straighten out,49/62,Part 3,Question,What effect does the last paragraph achieve?And how?,50/62,Language points in Part 3,inquiry,51/62,Rhetorical Analysis,In colloquial style,Goodman depicts ironically the life of a workaholic and his family.,What devices are adopted to make her writing more effective?,52/62,Repetition,Parallelism,Variation of length of sentences,Find some examples from the text for each.,53/62,Revision of the text,Language points in this text,Questions for revision discussion,What was Phil?,He was the vice president of the company.,He was a workaholic.,He was nervous and had a strong desire for success.,54/62,How about Phils relationship with his wife?,His wife lost him for years to his work.,His wife once tried to stop him from overworking but failed.,55/62,How about Phils relationship with his children?,His eldest son made inquiries about his father from the neighbors.,His daughter did not know how to talk with her father when they were together.,His youngest son failed to distract his father from his work and turned to drugs for help.,56/62,Why did Phils wife try to conceal her bitterness in front of the president at the funeral?,She was concerned about her financial situation after her husband died.,Phil provided well for his widow.,57/62,What constitutes a workaholic?,Work comes before anything else,including family,happiness and health.,Why didnt people believe that Phil died of heart attack?,He worked himself to death.,He died on a Sunday,which was his only day off.,He ate fast food everyday.He was overweight.He took no exercises.He had no time to relax himself.Working and no playing resulted in the heart attack.,58/62,What was lacking in Phils life?,His family.,His health.,What impact does the final paragraph have?,The irony of the author.,The philosophy of the company is to reward those who work the hardest.,59/62,What do you learn from this text?,Would you like to be a workaholic in the,future for money,status or anything else?,60/62,Exercises,Textbook(Page 58-64),61/62,The End,62/62,
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