Unit5The-CompanyMan(in-class).ppt

1、Unit 5 The Company Man,Warming-up,1. Supplementary reading 2. video clip from “Family Album”,Discussions,How important do you think work is to a person? Make an order of the following elements for your life according to their importance: LOVE / FAMILY / HEALTH / HOBBY / CAREER / FRIENDS 3. Work to l

2、ive or live to work?,1+0000(health, family, career, wealth, ) essentials; seasonings;,money; improve your living standard; kill time; gain experiences; sense of accomplishment; realize personal value; extend friend circles,Proverbs on “work”,Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. Working without a

3、plan is sailing without a compass. Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. Work will not kill a man but worry will. Worry kills more men than work.,What drives a person to overwork?What pressure are company staff under?,To support the family; to keep the job; to get promo

4、tion; to gain more power and better reputation; to fulfill their responsibility; the fierce competition between peers (peer pressure) Pressure from work Pressure from competition of new staff Pressure of ones own further development (recharge themselves) Pressure from feelings (problems like divorce

5、, marriage) Pressure from interpersonal relationship,4-5. Workaholism,It is a modern addiction. Many people have been afflicted by it. High expectation of their work; highly organized and goal-oriented; resist taking breaks or rewarding themselves with vacations; Their single-minded focus on work ne

6、gatively impact other areas of life; unable to stop and enjoy his accomplishments; if not work, they feel panic;,4. What is it? What are its features?,The cause is that professional achievements are tied up with self-image. Death from overwork, known as “karoshi”, has steadily increased since the He

7、alth Ministry first recognized the phenomenon in 1987.過度工作造成的死亡，即“過勞死”， 從1987年日本厚生省認(rèn)定這一現(xiàn)象開始一直穩(wěn)步增長(zhǎng)。,5. What is the cause? What negative impact does it have?,Text I: The company man,Background information 1. About the author,Note about Goodman Pulitzer Prize winner: conferred annually for accomplishme

8、nt in various fields of American journalism, literature, and music.,About Type A,Friedman and Rosenman(1959)conducted studied on the link between stress and heart disease. One of the outcomes was the discovery of Type A and Type B personalities.,Characteristics of Type B,Highly active, competitive,

9、aggressive, hostile, impatient, fast talking and thinking; Strong sense of time urgency, difficult to relax, More relaxed about time and not easily angered.,Characteristics of Type A,Text Organization,Para.,Para.2-6,Para.7-13,Para.,Para.,Para.,1, 2-6,7-13, 14-16,Para.1,Qs: What kind of role do you t

10、hink this part play in the whole article? What do “finally” and “precisely” suggest?,Worked himself to death,at 3 a.m. Sunday morning,Para.2-Para.6,Qs: Why isnt the name of the deceased mentioned at the very beginning? What was the mans position in the company? Why does the author report it in detai

11、l? What type of man was the deceased? What do you learn from Para.5?,Rhetoric devices-Repetition,Repetition :The repeated usage of word (s)/group of words to create a emphatic effect “This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning on his day off was fifty-one

12、years old and a vice-president.” Effects expected to generate? To emphasize that he devoted all his thoughts and energy to work and everything else was secondary to that. The end might be considered tragically heroic. The author is warning many other workaholics in the society of the danger.,Use of

13、Details,Figures 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. Phil knew that. (para.3) He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own compa

14、ny had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. (para.4) He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didnt mention that. (para.6) What do these figures imply?,Us

15、e of Details,2. Poverty in hobbies He had no outside extracurricular interests, unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. What does this sentence show? 3. Lack of a proper way towards meals He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course

16、, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didnt smoke. On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend. What do you know about Phil from these details?,Varied length of sentences,He was, however, one of six vice-p

17、residents, and one of three who might conceivably if the president died or retired soon enough have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that. Why doesnt the author keep her sentences equal or nearly so in length? To make the article full of variations to keep the readers interests in reading.,Paraphras

18、e,- He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.(l.3,para.2) The people who came to attend the funeral said to each other that Phils a person who worked too hard and devoted too much to h

19、is work. Phil was their model and they had lived the same way as that of Phil. At the same time, they shook their heads and stopped to consider their own work style for a few minutes.,1. This is a really _French champagne. 2. Now only a few study the _ music of India. 3. 副主席（大學(xué)副校長(zhǎng)）；副總統(tǒng)；副總理; 副部長(zhǎng)；副省長(zhǎng)；

20、副領(lǐng)事；副校長(zhǎng)（中小學(xué)） 副教授；副研究員；副主編；副主任醫(yī)師 副總經(jīng)理；大堂副理（賓館）;副書記；副秘書長(zhǎng)；副市長(zhǎng),classic: first-class; classical: traditional form of music, language, literature,Vice chairman; vice president, vice premier； vice minister; vice governor; vice consul; vice principal,associate professor; research fellow, managing editor; se

21、nior doctor;,Deputy (assistant) general manager/ managing director; Assistant manager; deputy secretary; secretary-general; mayor,難以想象這么小的孩子能跑這么快。 行政經(jīng)理拒絕了我的申請(qǐng)。 國(guó)會(huì)制定法律；總統(tǒng)執(zhí)行法律。,It is hardly conceivable that such a little kid can run so quickly. The executive manager tossed out my application. Congress

22、 makes the laws; the president executes them.,Fat, overweight, obese, plump; stout; chubby; pudgy,1. It is impolite to describe people with excess flesh using _, but _ is okay, for it is neutral. 2. Doctors suggest people have less fast food, in order not to be _. 3. There was a time when the _ figu

23、re caught on. 4. The _kid has funny _fingers.,Para.7-Para.13,Qs: What did Phils wife mean when she answered, “I already have”? Did his children know him well?,Ss Qs: 1. survive(Para.7) 2. “dearly beloved” (para.9) Why quotation mark is used here? 3. straighten out finances (para13),1. To quote; to e

24、mphasize; to satirize;,Employment of Details,What do these expressions in red suggest regarding Phils relationship with his family members? She had, , given up trying to compete with his work years ago, . A company friend said, I know how much you will miss him. And she answered, I already have. Mis

25、sing him all these years, she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. His dearly beloved eldest of the dearly beloved children is . In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like

26、. They were embarrassed. His second child is . She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was along with her father, , they had nothing to say to each other. grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his fathers favorite. , Phil stayed up

27、 nights worrying about the boy. The boy once said, My father and I only board here.“,Use of figures,At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to rep

28、lace. What do these figures manifest? To show that the man died young because of overwork and his young man became a poor helpless widow, which is a great sorrow. The author wants to show sympathy to the poor woman.,Varied sentence length,His dearly beloved eldest of the dearly beloved children is a

29、 hardworking executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed.,Paraphrase,He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman

30、 of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. (l.1, para.7) His wife Helen is forty-eight years old. She is a good woman who has no special skills and before she got married and became a mother, she worked in an office.,Paraphrase,“I already have.” “Miss

31、ing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.” (para.8) and she answered that she had already missed her husband these years, and she didnt miss him any more even though it was a heavy blow to her. The company

32、 would provide her some financial help.,Paraphrase,His dearly beloved eldest of the dearly beloved children is a hardworking executive in a manufacturing firm down South. (l.1.para.9) His eldest son is a hard-working executive in a producing company in the south of the country.,Paraphrase,She was af

33、raid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances the stock options and all that.(l.4. para.13) She was afraid that the president would know what was in her mind and troubled her. In spite of all, she would need him to help her out of the financial d

34、ifficulties, such as the stock options and so on.,straighten sth out To settle or resolve sth; to remove difficulties from sth e.g. With mutual help, we can straighten each others confusion ASAP. straighten sb out (infml) to remove doubt or ignorance in ones mind e.g. Traditionally a teacher is expe

35、cted to straighten puzzled students out.,And all that: (idm) (infml) and other similar things,e.g. I got fed up with mathematics for its figures, tables, formulae and all that stuff.,Para.14-Para.16,Qs: How many times is “he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning” rep

36、eated in the essay? Why is it repeated? How does the author portrait an image of a typical workaholic? Why does the essay end with the question the company president asked?,Repetition,Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office, he was worried about it. Phil was a

37、Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup. So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised.,Paraphrase,Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute fro

38、m a lineup. (l.2.para.14) Phil was obsessed with his work and he has the natural tendency to suffer from heart attack. It is very easy for you to identify him in the crowd.,Paraphrase,By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and tast

39、e, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three men. He asked around: “Whos been working the hardest?” (para.16) By five oclock in the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun to ask carefully about who had been working the hardest to be able to take Phils place.,Exercises,

40、1. The tiger has been _ for at least two days according to the expert. 2. The _ man left no will or legacy. 3. In a funeral, the priest prays for the _. 4. The story is about the _ hero. 5. Their _ conversation is about the _ stone.,late,inanimate,departed,deceased,dead,inanimate,. the fifty-one-yea

41、r old deceased had meant much ,dead, deceased, departed, late, inanimate dead常表語，指“死的”； deceased指人“最近死的”，多用于法律； departed指“最近死的”，多用于宗教，是委婉語，僅指死者； late“已故的”，多用于剛死的人； inanimate意為“沒有生命的，沒有生氣的”。,1). demand表示強(qiáng)烈要求。若主語是人，包含依據(jù)權(quán)利要求；若主語是物，含義為需求或要求，可直接接賓語。 2). require雖然有時(shí)可以與demand換用，但require的確切含義應(yīng)當(dāng)是對(duì)所要求的事要絕對(duì)服從，

42、有時(shí)這種要求帶有法律的或規(guī)章的強(qiáng)迫性。 3). claim要求承認(rèn)自己對(duì)某物的所有權(quán)。 4). request指“通過正式手續(xù)或非常有禮貌、客氣地請(qǐng)求”， 常用于 “恐怕對(duì)方由于種種原因不能答應(yīng)”的場(chǎng)合。,Exercises,1. The boss _ that Mary finish the project before next Monday. 2. You are sincerely _ to be present at the gathering. 3. Every citizen may _ the protection of the law. 4. Students are _ to attend classes.,