Unit1-Section B- 新视野英语教程Book 4课件.ppt

CONTENTS Introduction Questions and Answers 1. What’s the previous / the present job of the fathers? Intensive Reading Not so long ago, when a parent 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 child to his place of business and let him watch while he repaired a car or built a table.  Nowadays, a few fathers still fix engines and build tables, but most do not. Most fathers sit in glass buildings doing things that cannot be understood by children at all. The answers to the question What kind of work do you do, Daddy? are likely to be utter mysteries to a child. Para. 3-4 I sell space. I do market research. I am a data processor. I am in public relations. I am a systems analyst. Such explanations must seem nonsense to a child. How can he possibly imagine anyone analyzing a system or researching a market?  In the common everyday job, nothing is made any more. Things are now made by machines. Very little is repaired. The machines make things in such a fashion that the things will quickly fall apart. Repairs will be too expensive. Thus the buyer is encouraged to throw the thing away and buy a new one. In effect, the machines are making junk. Para. 5-6 The handful of people remotely associated with these machines can, of course, tell their children Daddy makes junk. Most of the work force, however, is remote from junk production. What do these people do? Consider the typical twelve-story glass building in the typical American 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. Para. 7-8 Still, the building is filled with people who think of themselves as working. At any given moment during the day perhaps one-third of them will be talking in