新世纪英语专业本科生综合教程第二第册Unit市公开课一等奖百校联赛特等奖课件.pptx

Our Schedules,Our SelvesOur Schedules,Our SelvesUnit 13Unit 13Unit13第1页Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.1.Whats Amandas plan after the project is finished?2.Why does she have such an idea?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 1Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationTo have a holiday for several weeks.Because she wants to get rid of the stress which makes women look haggard.第2页Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual SupplementCultural Information第3页Ok,so we are done.All right.You know lets just take off for a few weeks.Yeah.What do you mean by“yeah”?Im not kidding.You always that this is our busiest time.I need to get out of the town.You know,I think I need some peace and quiet.Whatever these people go away for.You know what I really want to do.I want to eat carbs so I wouldnt need to kill myself.You know,I want to read a book,not just a magazine,anVideo Script1Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationAmanda:Assistant A:Amanda:Assistant A:Amanda:Assistant B:Amanda:第4页actual book.For years I read these reviews I buy the books but I never read them.Did you read that article in New York Times last Sunday?Severe stress makes women age prematurely because stress causes DNA in our cells to shrink until they can no longer replicate.So when we are stressed we looked haggard.This is just women not men.Im sorry.Remember when I used to say that single women over the age of 35 will more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to get married.OK,that was horrible.But now our generation isAssistant A:Amanda:Video Script2Audiovisual SupplementCultural Information第5页also not getting married and bonus,real terrorists actually become part of our lives.So the stress of it at all actually shows up on our faces making us look haggard.Video Script3Audiovisual SupplementCultural Information第6页Cultural information 1Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationWalden Pond is a lake located in Concord,Massachusetts,in the United States.The writer,transcendentalist,and philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of the pond for two years starting in the summer of 1845.His account of the experience was recorded in Walden;or,Life in the Woods,and made the spot famous.Walden Pond第7页Cultural information 2Audiovisual SupplementCultural Information“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not,when I came to die,discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life,living is so dear;nor did I wish to practice resignation,unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”(from Henry David Thoreau,Walden,“Where I Lived,and What I Lived For”)Now the Walden Pond has the cultural embodiment of leaving the busy city life and immersion into the nature so as to pursue ones own self.第8页All the efforts we make in our social life may lead to the ultimate purpose of seeking happiness.Yet in modern world people are so drifted by their busy schedules that we may one day find out that we have been far away from our original target.This text is written from those who might get lost during our long journey of struggle.We learn from the text that the problem of overscheduling has three main causes,which are economic cause,technological cause and,the most important,psychological cause.All these causes,when working together,make us the slaves of our own schedules and lose our fun in doing things.Besides this macroscopic change in our value judgment,Global Reading-Text AnalysisStructural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features第9页Global Reading-Text Analysisit is also necessary to seek help from outside efforts such as expanding vacation time and shortening the work week.Another,which is more important and more difficult to achieve,is to adopt a new perspective of time.Only through this can we be back to our original journey to pursue happiness.Structural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features第10页 (Paragraphs 1-3)introduces the fact that most Americans have become the slaves of their schedules.Structural analysis1)In terms of organization,the article clearly falls into four main parts:Structural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical FeaturesThe first part (Paragraphs 4-6)lists the three major causes of overscheduling,namely,economic cause,technological cause and psychological causes.The second part (Paragraphs 7-10)tells us the bad effect of overscheduling:it deprives us of the fun of life and it also reveals the authors opinion on this problem “We are bigger than our schedules”.This part also brings us to his suggested solution to this problem in the last part of the essay.The third part 第11页Structural analysis2)The transitional paragraphs of this text is Paragraph 9 and 10 where the author not only reveals his opinion on this problem “We are bigger than our schedules”but also brings us to his suggested solution to this problem,which is presented in the last part of the essay.Structural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features (Paragraphs 11-14)suggests the political solution which consists of mainly the outside efforts as well as our own psychological adjustment.The fourth part 第12页Rhetorical FeaturesStructural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features1)Extensive employment of short sentences,ellipsis and even one-word sentences:e.g.“DAMN!”,“That would do it.”,“Whew!”,“Yes!”,“No!”(Paragraph 1)第13页Rhetorical FeaturesStructural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features2)Syntactical features:in a single sentence,a succession of verbs are usede.g.“Youll skip yoga class,blow off the neighborhood meeting,ignore the piles of laundry and just relax.”(paragraph 1)第14页“Determined and sternly focused,we march through each day obeying the orders of our calendars.”(Paragraph 2)“virtual slaves to their schedules”(Paragraph 3)“onerous obligations”(Paragraph 3)“but merely following a dizzying timetable of duties”(Paragraph 3)Rhetorical FeaturesStructural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features3)Semantic features:to bring into prominence the idea that one is constantly driven by endless apparently urgent trifles in lifee.g.第15页Rhetorical FeaturesStructural AnalysisText AnalysisRhetorical Features“feel the pinch”(Paragraph 4)“they fuel the trend that every minute must be accounted for.”(Paragraph 5)“You cant happily savor an experience because your mind races toward the next one on the calendar.”(Paragraph 7)“fell hemmed in by our schedules”(Paragraph 11)第16页Detailed reading 1.1Detailed ReadingOur Schedules,Our SelvesJay Walljasper1 DAMN!Youre 20 minutes no,more like half an hour late for your breakfast meeting,which you were hoping to scoot out of early to make an 8:30 seminar across town.And,somewhere in there,theres that conference call.Now,at the last minute,you have to be at a 9:40 meeting.No way you can miss it.第17页Detailed reading1.2Lets see,the afternoon is totally booked,but you can probably push back your 10:15 appointment and work through lunch.That would do it.Whew!The day has barely begun and already you are counting the hours until evening,when you can finally go home and happily,gloriously,triumphantly,do nothing.Youll skip yoga class,blow off the neighborhood meeting,ignore the piles of laundry and just relax.Yes!No!Tonights the night of the concert.You promised Nathan and Mara weeks ago that you would go.DAMN!Detailed Reading第18页2 Welcome to daily grind circa a grueling 24-7 competition against the clock that leaves even the winners wondering what happened to their lives.Determined and sternly focused,we march through each day obeying the orders of our calendars.The idle moment,the reflective pause,serendipity of any sort have no place in our plans.Stopping to talk to someone or slowing down to appreciate a sunny afternoon will only make you late for your next round of activities.From the minute we rise in the morning,most of us have our day charted out.The only surprise is if we actually get everything done that we had planned before collapsing into bed at night.Detailed reading 2Detailed Reading第19页3 On the job,in school,at home,increasing numbers of North Americans are virtual slaves to their schedules.Some of what fills our days are onerous obligations,some are wonderful opportunities,and most fall in between,but taken together they add up to too much.Too much to do,too many places to be,too many things happening too fast,all mapped out for us in precise quarter-hour allotments on our palm pilots or day planners.We are not leading our lives,but merely following a dizzying timetable of duties,commitments,demands,and options.How did this happen?Wheres the luxurious leisure that decades of technological progress was supposed to bestow upon us?Detailed reading 3Detailed Reading第20页4 The acceleration of the globalized economy,and the accompanying decline of people having any kind of a say over wages and working conditions,is a chief culprit.Folks at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder feel the pain most sharply.Holding down two or three jobs,struggling to pay the bills,working weekends,no vacation time,little social safety net,they often feel out of control about everything happening to them.But even successful professionals,people who seem fully in charge of their destinies,feel the pinch.Doctors,for example,working impossibly crowded schedules under the command of HMOs,feel overwhelmed.Many of them are now seeking union representation,traditionally the recourse of low-pay workers.Detailed reading 4Detailed Reading第21页5 The onslaught of new technology,which promised to set us free,has instead ratcheted up the rhythms of everyday life.Cell phones,e-mail,and laptop computers instill expectations of instantaneous action.While such direct communication can loosen our schedules in certain instances(its easier to shift around an engagement on short notice),overall they fuel the trend that every minute must be accounted for.Its almost impossible to put duties behind you now,when the boss or committee chair can call you at a rap show or sushi restaurant,and documents can be e-mailed to you on vacation in Banff or Thailand.If you are never out of the loop,then are you ever not working?Detailed reading 5Detailed Reading第22页6 Our own human desire for more choices and new experiences also plays a role.Just like hungry diners gathering around a bountiful smorgasbord,its hard not to pile too many activities on our plates.An expanding choice of cultural offerings over recent decades and the liberating sense that each of us can fully play a number of different social roles(worker,citizen,lover,parent,artist,etc.)has opened up enriching and exciting opportunities.Spanish lessons?Yes.Join a volleyball team?Why not.Cello and gymnastics classes for the kids?Absolutely.Tickets to a blues festival,food and wine expo,and political fundraiser?Sure.And we cant forget to make time for school events,therapy sessions,protest rallies,religious services,and dinner with friends.Detailed reading 6Detailed Reading第23页Detailed reading 7Detailed Reading7 Yes,these can all add to our lives.But with only 24 hours allotted to us each day,something is lost too.You dont just run into a friend anymore and decide to get coffee.You cant happily savor an experience because your mind races toward the next one on the calendar.In a busy life,nothing happens if you dont plan it,often weeks in advance.Our“free”hours become just as programmed as the work day.What begins as an idea for fun frequently turns into an obligation obstacle course.Visit that new barbecue restaurant.Done!Go to tango lessons.Done!Fly to Montreal for a long weekend.Done!第24页Detailed reading 8Detailed Reading8 Weve booked ourselves so full of prescheduled activities theres no time left for those magic,spontaneous moments that make us feel most alive.We seldom stop to think of all the experiences we are eliminating from our lives when we load up our appointment book.Reserving tickets for a basketball game months away could mean you miss out on the first balmy evening of spring.Five p.m.skating lessons for your children fit so conveniently into your schedule that you never realize its the time all the other kids in the neighborhood gather on the sidewalk to play.第25页Detailed reading 9Detailed Reading9 A few years back,radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire was attending a conference of Midwestern political activists and heard over and over about how overwhelmed people felt about the duties they face each day.Finally,he stood up and,in slow,heavily accented English,declared,“We are bigger than our schedules.”The audience roared with applause.第26页Detailed reading 1010 Yes,we are bigger than our schedules.So how do we make sure our lives are not overpowered by an endless roster of responsibilities?Especially in an age where demanding jobs,two-worker households or single-parent families make the joyous details of everyday life cooking supper from scratch or organizing a block party seem like an impossible dream?There is no set of easy answers,despite what the marketers of new convenience products would have us believe.But that doesnt mean we cant make real steps to take back our lives.Detailed Reading第27页Detailed reading 11.111 Part of the answer is political.So long as Americans work longer hours than any other people on Earth we are going to feel hemmed in by our schedules.Expanded vacation time for everyone,including part-time and minimum wage workers,is one obvious and overdue solution.Shortening the work week,something the labor movement and progressive politicians successfully accomplished in the early decades of the 20th century,is another logical objective.Theres nothing preordained about 40-hours on the job;Italy,France,and other European nations have already cut back working hours.Detailed Reading第28页Detailed reading 11.2An opportunity for employees outside academia to take a sabbatical every decade or so is another idea whose time has come.And how about more vacation and paid holidays?Lets start with Martin Luther Kings birthday,Susan B.Anthonys birthday,and your own!Any effort to give people more clout in their workplaces from strengthened unions to employee ownership could help us gain much-needed flexibility in our jobs,and our lives.Detailed Reading第29页Detailed reading 1212 On another front,how you think about time can make a big difference in how you feel about your life,as other articles in this cover section illustrate.Note how some of your most memorable moments occurred when something in your schedule fell through.The canceled lunch that allows you to spend an hour strolling around town.Friday night plans scrapped for a bowl of popcorn in front of the fireplace.Dont be shy about shucking your schedule whenever you can get away with it.And with some experimentation,you may find that you can get away with it a lot more than you imagined.Detailed Reading第30页13 Setting aside some time on your calendar for life