Unit_Five_The_Company_Man.pptVIP

Unit FiveThe Company Man Warm-up Activities 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. What do you think is the life of a typical workaholic like? Proverbs on “work” Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. Working without a 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. Text Organization Para.1 Qs: What kind of role do you think this part play in the whole article? What do “finally” and “precisely” suggest? Para.2-Para.6 Qs: Why isn’t the name of the deceased mentioned at the very beginning? What was the man’s position in the company? Why does the author report it in detail? 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 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 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 company 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 conside