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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,Work to Live,or,Live to Work,1/35,Warm-up Questions,What is the meaning of the unit title?,Which do you think is more important,work or life?,How will you balance the two in your future life?why?,How do you think of“workaholics”?why?,2/35,Useful Expressions in Overview,把,专用于,首先,另首先,广泛讨论问题,勤奋工作人,忙于工作,休息与娱乐,只工作不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。,起因和结果,工作与生活平衡,提出,(,主意、提议或计划,),devote to.,o,n the one hand,on the other(hand),a,much discussed issue,a hard worker,become tied up in the work,rest and recreation,All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.,causes and consequences,a work-life balance,come up with,3/35,Unit 5,Text A,The Company Man,Ellen Goodman,4/35,Useful Expressions in lead-in,1,st,-6,th,Paragraphs,劳累工作致死,痴迷工作,把,排除在外;不在意,动脉血栓,在休息日,当上一把手,本职员作以外兴趣,每个月一次高尔夫运动,鸡蛋沙拉三明治,在桌旁,运动夹克,work oneself to death,in an addiction to work,to the exclusion of,coronary thrombosis,on ones day off,move to the top spot,extracurricular interests,a monthly golf game,egg salad sandwich(es),at the desk,a sports jacket,5/35,Questions for this part,What do“finally and precisely”suggest in the first sentence?,Why isnt the name of the deceased mentioned at the very beginning?,What did the mans friends and acquaintances think was the real cause of his death?,What type of man was the deceased?,What was the mans position in the company?,How many days did the junior employees work every week?how about the deceased?,How come the man got overweight?,6/35,Answers,“finally”suggests that his death is expectable;“precisely”suggests that his death took place as precisely as his schedule was arranged.Together,they suggest the man was overworked and excessively time-conscious when he was alive,and a classic workaholic.,It is intentionally and ironically arranged so.It is meant to create suspension,on the one hand,and,more importantly,to suggest that he was not as important as he himself might think he was in other peoples eyes.,He died of overworking.,Due to unhealthy diet and lack of exercise.,7/35,Difficult Sentences,He worked himself to death,finally,and,precisely,at 3:00 A.M.Sunday morning.(,Para.1,),“finally”suggests that his death is expectable;,“precisely”suggests that his death took place as precisely as his schedule was arranged.,Together,they suggest the man was overworked and time-conscious when he was alive,and a classic workaholic.,8/35,Difficult Sentences,2.but everyone among his friends and,acquaintances,knew it,instantly,.(,Para.2,),“it”stands for the real cause of his death:,overworking,.,9/35,Difficult Sentences,3.He was a perfect,Type A,a,workaholic,a,classic,they said to each other and shook their head,(,Para.2,),正确句序:,they said to each other,(that),he was a perfect Type A,a workaholic,a classic,and shook their head,10/35,Type A,People exhibiting Type A behaviour tend to be impatient and highly time-conscious.Often as high-achieving workaholics,they feel insecure about their social status and are extremely competitive and aggressive.,11/35,Difficult Sentences,4.He was,however,one of six vice-presidents,and one of three who might,conceivably,if the president died or retired soon enough have,moved to the top spot,.,(,Para.3,),He was one of the six vice-presidents of a large corporation and one of the three promising candidates who might succeed to the position of the president.,12/35,Difficult Sentences,5.He worked six days a week,five of them until eight or nine at night,during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone,but,the,executives,.,(,Para.4,),他一周工作六天,其中五天天天工作到晚上八、九点钟,而企业员工除了管理层每七天工作四天。,13/35,Difficult Sentences,6.He worked like the,Important People,.(,Para.4,),He voluntarily worked overtime because all the executives in the company considered themselves too important a group to be allowed to ease up.,14/35,Difficult Sentences,7.He had no outside“,extracurricular interests,”unless,of course,you think about a monthly golf game that way.To Phil,it was work.(,Para.4,),extracurricular interests,:,本义“课外兴趣”引申为,“业余兴趣”,To Phil,the golf game provides him with opportunities to socialize with business partners.,15/35,Difficult Sentences,8.He was,of course,overweight,by 20 or 25 pounds,.(,Para.4,),“by 20 or 25 pounds”,表示幅度,他超重了,20,或,25,磅。,increase/rise by three percent,16/35,Difficult Sentences,9.Three of them will be,seriously considered for his job,.(,Para.6,),three of them are seriously considered to be his potential successors.,17/35,Useful Expressions in Paragraphs 7-12,不具备市场所需尤其技能,在结婚生子之前,与,竞争,/,反抗,在意;在意,深爱,一家制造业企业,在南方,走访了街坊邻里,刚结婚,高中毕业生,过去几年,打零工,供(自己)吸大麻和吃饭,抓住,经常通宵不眠,of no particular marketable skills,before marrying and mothering,compete with,care for,dearly beloved,a manufacturing firm,down south,walk around the neighborhood,(be)newly married,a high-school graduate,the last couple of years,do odd jobs,stay in grass and food,grab at,stay up nights,18/35,Questions for this part,What was Helen skillful at?And what job did Helen take before marrying?,How many children did the couple bring up?,What did Helen mean by saying“I already have”?,Was Phils family close to him?How do you know it?,Why was the neighbors embarrassed when asked about Phil?,How did the daughter feel when staying with her father alone?,Why did Phil particularly worry about his youngest son?,What do you think is the possible reason for his youngest sons abnormal life?,19/35,Answers,She has no particular marketable skills.She worked in an office before getting married.,Three.Two sons and a daughter.,She meant that she had been missing him long before he died because he spent little time at home.,No.,Because they knew little about Phil.,She felt indifferent and had nothing to say to him.,Because the youngest son took no regular job and stayed in grass(marijuana,.merwn,).,He was disappointed with his father for his negligence of him and the family.,20/35,Difficult Sentences,1.But it did list his“,survivors,”quite accurately.(,Para.7,),survivor:,【,法律,】(,对共有财产中死者全部部分含有享受权,),生存者,讣告上颇为准确地列出了他“,财产继承人,”。,21/35,Difficult Sentences,2.He is,survived,by his wife.(,Para.7,),survive,:,outlive,“,比,活得长,”,His wife is still alive and outlives him.,22/35,Difficult Sentences,3.“I already have.”(,Para.7,),I have already,missed him,.,Being a workaholic,Phil spent little time at home before he died.His wife had missed him long before he died.,It implies that Phil had been usually missing from her life when alive.,我早就开始思念他了。,23/35,Difficult Sentences,4.“Missing him all these years,”,(,Para.8,),I have been missing him all these years.,这么多年来我一直在思念他。,24/35,Difficult Sentences,5.She,must have given up,part of,herself,which had,cared too much,for,the man.(,Para.8,),她一定早已放弃了曾经有过对丈夫深深牵挂。(,她早已不再牵挂丈夫了,。),那个曾经十分牵挂丈夫她一定早已不存在了。,25/35,Difficult Sentences,6.She would be“,well taken care of,.”(,Para.8,),She would be“well provided for.”,Her husband left her quite some money to live on.,她会得到“很好照料”。,26/35,Difficult Sentences,7.His“,dearly,beloved,”eldest of the“,dearly,beloved,”children is a hardworking executive in a manufacturing firm,down South,.(,Para.9,),What do the quotation marks on the“,dearly beloved,”suggest?,They imply that the father and his children are not really dear and loving to each other in reality.,他“深爱”儿女中“深爱”大儿子是南方一家制造企业经理,工作非常勤奋。,27/35,Difficult Sentences,8.The youngest is twenty,a boy,a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years,like a lot of his friends,doing enough,odd jobs,to,stay in grass and food.,(,Para.11,),His youngest son failed to go in for a college education and did no more than odd jobs to get enough money for marijuana and food.The workaholic Phil never paid enough attention to the growth and education of his youngest son.,28/35,Difficult Sentences,9.He was the one who tried to,grab at,his father,and,tried to mean enough to him,to keep the man at home.(,Para.11,),His son had also tried many ways to secure attention,love and care from his father,but all failed in the end.,29/35,Difficult Sentences,10.My father and I only,board,here.(,Para.9,),My father and I only live in the same place(i.e.home)like guests living in the same boarding house(,提供膳宿私人住宅,),.,30/35,Useful Expressions in Paragraphs 13-16,在葬礼上,死者,对企业很主要,直视某人,看出她怨恨,毕竟,处理财务方面问题,股票期权,诸如这类,轻易患心脏病人,识别出,立刻,小心而得体,问询,四处探询,at the funeral,the deceased,mean much to the company,look sb.in the eye,read his bitterness,after all,straighten out the finances,stock option,and all that,a heart-attack natural,pick out,in a minute,with care and taste,make inquires about,ask about,31/35,Questions for this part,How old was Phil when he passed away?,How did the company president remark on Phil?,Why didnt the widow look the president in the eye?,How does the author portrait the image of a typical Type-A workaholic?,What does the question asked by the company president imply?,32/35,Difficult Sentences,Phil was a Type A,a heart-attack natural,.(,Para.14,),Phil was a Type-A workaholic and apt to suffer from heart attack.,33/35,2.,You could have,picked him out,in a minute from a lineup.,(,Para.14,),Based on the use of police lineups from which a victim identifies a criminal,this is used metaphorically to emphasize how easy it is to identify Phil.,你能从一排人中立马认出他。,Difficult Sentences,34/35,Questions for In-depth Comprehension,How many times is“he finally worked himself to death,at precisely 3:00A.M.Sunday morning”repeated in the essay?,Para.1,2,and 15,What rhetoric device is it?,Repetition,Why is it repeated?,To create a,bitter and sarcastic effect.,35/35,
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