1、 Warming uWarming up pSkimmingSkimmingDiggingDiggingCritical thinkingCritical thinkingLanguage in useLanguage in useUnfamiliar wordsUnfamiliar wordsInterpretingInterpretingTalking pointTalking pointWarming up Listen and underline any words or expressions which are different from what you hear.Nathan
2、: So whatve you done over the last two years, since we left college and became unemployable science graduates? Brett: Ive been on the road. Ive been east, to China, Japan, Thailand I taught English for a few months in Tokyo and yourself?Nathan: So whatve you done over the last two years, since we le
3、ft college and became unemployable science graduates? Brett: Ive been on the road. Ive been east, to China, Japan, Thailand I taught English for a few months in Tokyo and yourself?Warming upNathan: Nothing so exciting. Ive been here most of the time, doing odd jobs dealing with online orders for a s
4、upermarket, delivering pizzas, gardening, cat-sitting (not quite as difficult as babysitting!), replying to emails for a local politician, and what else? Oh yes, I spent two months in a call centre, which wasnt very well-paid, and I did some tourist information research, interviewing people arriving
5、 at the station. And Ive done some teaching too, giving maths lessons to students preparing for university entrance.Brett: For someone whos unemployable it looks as if youve been rather busy!Nathan: Nothing so exciting. Ive been here most of the time, doing odd jobs dealing with online orders for a
6、supermarket, delivering pizzas, gardening, cat-sitting (not quite as difficult as babysitting!), replying to emails for a local politician, and what else? Oh yes, I spent two months in a call centre, which wasnt very well-paid, and I did some tourist information research, interviewing people arrivin
7、g at the station. And Ive done some teaching too, giving maths lessons to students preparing for university entrance.Brett: For someone whos unemployable it looks as if youve been rather busy!Warming upNow listen again and correct the information.Answer: science art; Tokyo Bangkok; cat-sitting dog-w
8、alking; very well-paid much fun; station airport; maths historyWarming up Work in pairs and discuss the questions.1 What jobs has Nathan done since he left university?2 Which of them would you describe as traditional? Which of them are new?3 Why does Nathan describe them both as “unemployable”?4 Has
9、 the world of work changed for young people? If so, why?5 Why do you think Nathan and Brett have not started secure careers yet?Warming up1 What jobs has Nathan done since he left university?Dealing with online orders for a supermarket, delivering pizzas, gardening, dog-walking, replying to emails f
10、or a local politician, working in a call centre, doing tourist information research and giving history lessons to students preparing for university entrance.Warming up2 Which of them would you describe as traditional? Which of them are new?Traditional: gardening, market research, tutoring the rest a
11、re of more recent date, though delivery boys as a group are arguably traditional. 3 Why does Nathan describe them both as “unemployable”?Presumably they have not been able to find jobs. Perhaps he is also referring to the high jobless rate for fresh graduates in many economies.Warming up4 Has the wo
12、rld of work changed for young people? If so, why?It is less stable jobs change faster so people need to retrain. Companies continually look for savings and new technology allows them to automate tasks. Workers now spend most of their time in front of screens. Work is less social.5 Why do you think N
13、athan and Brett have not started secure careers yet?They have not had the sort of job offers they want. The competition among new graduates is intense. It seems Brett is not quite ready to settle down yet and enjoys being free to travel. Warming upListen to the passage and fill the blanks.There are
14、many methods of woodworking and each culture has its own _. Artistic wood creations include architectural _ on buildings, furniture for the home or even carved animals. For example, in Thailand, _ detailed carvings from teak and other hard woods are an important part of _ palaces and religious build
15、ings. Woodcarvers were a very important group of _. A person needed many years of training with experts to be a wood carver. Wood carvings often include plant forms such as the lotus flower as well as _ taken from Hindu and Buddhist religious stories. traditionsdecorationrichlyancientartists figures
16、Warming up Look at the first sentence of the passage and choose the best answer to the question. It is not surprising that modern children tend to look blank and dispirited when informed that they will someday have to “go to work and make a living”. Warming upWhy do you think it isnt surprising that
17、 children are unhappy that one day they will have to “go to work”?(a) Most of them have never done any hard work in their lives.(b) They feel demotivated about the qualifications they will have to get.(c) They cant make up their minds what they want to do.(d) They dont understand what most of todays
18、 jobs are.(a) Most of them have never done any hard work in their lives.(b) They feel demotivated about the qualifications they will have to get.(c) They cant make up their minds what they want to do.(d) They dont understand what most of todays jobs are.SkimmingBrowse the passage within 8 minutes to
19、 get a rough idea about it.Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 75.TaskTaskSkimming Choose the best summary of the passage. 1 In todays America jobs are not what they used to be. Everything is made by machines, not people. Nearly all the jobs today are office jobs, and for an outsider, s
20、uch as a child, it is difficult to understand what these jobs really are. 2 Machines have made work in America unnecessary. Apart from the few manual jobs which are left, almost all of todays jobs are not worth doing, and many people spend all their time in offices reading the paper.3 Industry in Am
21、erica no longer produces anything that lasts for more than a few years, after which things have to be thrown away. Nowhere is this more apparent than in office jobs, where huge quantities of paper are thrown away every day.Answer: 1Skimming Check () the true statements. 1 Children today dont have mu
22、ch idea what jobs their parents do. 2 Nobody makes or repairs things like tables any more. 3 Children cant understand job titles like “systems analyst”. 4 Its easy for adults to understand other peoples job titles. 5 Most manufactured items can be repaired cheaply by machines. 6 The typical office i
23、n America is in a 12-floor building made of glass. 7 Typical office workers feel they are not really working. 8 If you walk into any office, more than half the people will be talking on the phone. 9 Almost everyone has a job involving paper.The true statements are 1, 3, and 9.Work in Corporate Ameri
24、ca译文译文Digging1 It is not surprising that modern children tend to look blank and dispirited when informed that they will someday have to “go to work and make a living”. The problem is that they cannot visualize what work is in corporate America.Background informationDigging2 Not so long ago, when a p
25、arent said he was off to work, the child knew very well what was about to happen. His parent was going to make something or fix something. The parent could take his offspring to his place of business and let him watch while he repaired a buggy or built a table.译文译文Digging3 When a child asked, “What
26、kind of work do you do, Daddy?” his father could answer in terms that a child could come to grips with, such as “I fix steam engines” or “I make horse collars”.译文译文Digging4 Well, a few fathers still fix steam engines and build tables, but most do not. Nowadays, most fathers sit in glass buildings do
27、ing things that are absolutely incomprehensible to children. The answers they give when asked, “What kind of work do you do, Daddy?” are likely to be utterly mystifying to a child.译文译文Digging5 “I sell space.” “I do market research.” “I am a data processor.” “I am in public relations.” “I am a system
28、s analyst.” Such explanations must seem nonsense to a child. How can he possibly envision anyone analyzing a system or researching a market?译文译文Digging6 Even grown men who do market research have trouble visualizing what a public relations man does with his day, and it is a safe bet that the average
29、 systems analyst is as baffled about what a space salesman does at the shop as the average space salesman is about the tools needed to analyze a system.译文译文Digging7 In the common everyday job, nothing is made any more. Things are now made by machines. Very little is repaired. The machines that make
30、things make them in such a fashion that they will quickly fall apart in such a way that repairs will be prohibitively expensive. Thus the buyer is encouraged to throw the thing away and buy a new one. In effect, the machines are making junk.译文译文Digging8 The handful of people remotely associated with
31、 these machines can, of course, tell their inquisitive children “Daddy makes junk”. Most of the workforce, however, is too remote from junk production to sense any contribution to the industry. What do these people do?译文译文Digging9 Consider the typical 12-story glass building in the typical American
32、city. Nothing is being made in this building and nothing is being repaired, including the building itself. Constructed as a piece of junk, the building will be discarded when it wears out, and another piece of junk will be set in its place. 译文译文Digging10 Still, the building is filled with people who
33、 think of themselves as working. At any given moment during the day perhaps one-third of them will be talking into telephones. Most of these conversations will be about paper, for paper is what occupies nearly everyone in this building.译文译文Digging11 Some jobs in the building require men to fill pape
34、r with words. There are persons who type neatly on paper and persons who read paper and jot notes in the margins. Some persons make copies of paper and other persons deliver paper. There are persons who and persons who unfile paper.Digging12 Some persons mail paper. Some persons telephone other pers
35、ons and ask that paper be sent to them. Others telephone to ascertain the whereabouts of paper. Some persons confer about paper. In the grandest offices, men approve of some paper and disapprove of other paper. 译文译文Digging13 The elevators are filled throughout the day with young men carrying paper f
36、rom floor to floor and with vital men carrying paper to be discussed with other vital men. 译文译文Digging14 What is a child to make of all this? His father may be so eminent that he lunches with other men about paper. Suppose he brings his son to work to give the boy some idea of what work is all about
37、. What does the boy see happening? 译文译文Digging15 His father calls for paper. He reads paper. Perhaps he scowls at paper. Perhaps he makes an angry red mark on paper. He telephones another man and says they had better lunch over paper. 译文译文Digging16 At lunch they talk about paper. Back at the office,
38、 the father orders the paper retyped and reproduced in quintuplicate, and then sent to another man for comparison with paper that was reproduced in triplicate last year. 译文译文Digging17 Imagine his poor son afterwards mulling over the mysteries of work with a friend, who asks him, “Whats your father d
39、o?” What can the boy reply? “It beats me,” perhaps, if he is not very observant. Or if he is, “Something that has to do with making junk, I think. Same as everybody else.”译文译文1. Work in corporate America (Title)Corporate America is a general term given to a large non-government-owned organization or
40、 company in the United States, eg a bank, a marketing research company etc. It has both positive and negative connotations. Positively, it means that a company or an organization produces wealth and improves peoples living standards in a free market and competitive society by people working together
41、 to achieve the goals. This mainly refers to financial gains and success. Negatively, it seems to indicate the promotion of self-interest, financial gains, greed and irresponsibility in the workplace.Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 2. It is not surprising that modern children tend to look bl
42、ank and dispirited when (Line 1, Para 1)To “look blank” means that modern children show no sign of understanding or emotion about the corporate workplace, they seem unresponsive and have blank looks. Someone who is “dispirited” does not have the hope, enthusiasm or interest that they had earlier; th
43、ey are in low spirits or downhearted.Difficult sentences 3. The parent could take his offspring to his place of business and let him watch while he repaired a buggy or built a table. (Line 4, Para 2)buggy: It is a vehicle used for babies and toddlers by carers (parents, grandparents and adults in ca
44、ring professions), to push them around. It is also called a pushchair. In the US, it is called a stroller.Difficult sentences 4. When a child asked his father could answer in terms that a child could come to grips with, such as “I fix steam engines” or “I make horse collars”. (Line 1, Para 3)come to
45、 grips with: It normally means to face up to a problem, situation or difficult job and deal with it. Here, it means that someone gets to understand something that is difficult or unpleasant. It has the similar meaning as come to terms with, tackle, handle, manage etc. horse collar: It is made of lea
46、ther and fit around animals necks to allow them to pull heavy things. When horses are used to pull carts or carriages they wear horse collars. Here, in corporate America, this is a deliberate image of something very old-fashioned, just like steam engines.Difficult sentences 5. How can he possibly en
47、vision anyone analyzing a system or researching a market? (Line 4, Para 5)envision: a verb which means to show a visual scene in your mind, to imagine something that is outside your experience, which has not happened or does not existDifficult sentences 6. Even grown men and it is a safe bet that th
48、e average systems analyst is as baffled about what a space salesman does at the shop as the average space salesman is about the tools needed to analyze a system. (Line 1, Para 6)In this sentence the writer is saying he is quite sure that neither the systems analyst nor the space salesman knows about
49、 each others work and what they actually do. it is a safe bet: It means that the speaker or writer is sure about something (they would be willing to risk money to confirm it).Difficult sentences a space salesman: People who deal with the arrangements for the use of space in offices and other places:
50、 How many rooms might be needed for what purposes, what sorts of work people do in particular offices and how the office furniture and equipment can best be arranged for the maximum effectiveness, how much it costs to rent or use office accommodation in different parts of a city But probably, a spac
