L7 The Value of Working.pptVIP

Lesson 7The Value of Working I.Pre-reading Tasks 1.1 Lead-in Questions What do you usually do in holidays? What is your ideal job? Do you think today’s working condition has changed a lot? Why? Illustrate some measures that the government has adopted to guarantee the workers’ interest? 1.2 Word Warming-up § Her explanation is not implausible. § His leg was numbed by the intense pain. § He tried and tried but all his efforts were of no avail. § A docile horse/temperament § A decisive or catastrophic conflict. § They are hoping for a small diminution in taxes. § The prices in this shop are extortionate. § Its not as if he was very important in the company hierarchy. § a pluralistic democracy/system § The bird perched on the electric wires. § The zealous demonstrators were ignored by the media. § The poor people lived in brutish conditions. § Labor-saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery. § Perhaps it is our human nature to be nostalgic. § Mental illness can create a sense of alienation from the real world. § He coaxed her into letting him take her to the cinema. § Effusion: an unrestrained expression of emotion II. While –Reading Tasks 2.1. Phrases § His friends are all dying off. § The speaker will soon wind up his speech. § Shes knocking herself out with all that work. § I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing. § Hes prone to minor ailments. 2.2 Notes to the Text Lance Morrow has written more than 150 Time cover stories. A University Professor at Boston University, and the author of seven books, including Evil: An Investigation, and The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948. 2.3 Long and Difficult Sentences Only the fortunate toil in ways that express them directly. That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into “self-actualization”, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-end in isolation, the empty face that gazes back from the mirror.’ All work must be worke