当代研究生英语[下]课件第一单元.pptVIP

当代研究生英语读写教程 ;Unit 1;Content; 1. Watch the video Clip about Man’s life : ;2. Watch a Flash about women’s life :;2. Have a 5-minute discussion with your partners on the following topics:;;Reading—Text A;Main Idea; The author probes into the two periods in human life: the teenage and the twenties. The teenage period is featured by young people striving to be independent of their family, but still feeling a bit uncertain about themselves. The next period is characterized with young people beginning to think seriously about starting their life and work. They begin to choose and make decisions, but still not rational enough and quite often with illusions. ;Structure;Text Study;1 A person’s life at any given time incorporates both external and internal aspects. The external system is composed of our memberships in the culture: our job, social class, family and social roles, how we present ourselves to and participate in the world. The interior realm concerns the meanings this participation has for each of us. In what ways are our values, goals, and aspirations being invigorated or violated by our present life system? How many parts of our personality can we live out, and what parts are we suppressing? How do we feel about our way of living in the world at any given time? 2 The inner realm is where the crucial shifts in bedrock begin to throw a person off balance, signaling the necessity to change and move on to a new footing in the next stage of development. These crucial shifts occur throughout life, yet people consistently refuse to recognize that they possess an internal life system. Ask anyone;Para. 2-3;Para. 4-6;Para. 6-7;Para. 8-10; The Trying Twenties 11 The Trying Twenties confront us with the question of how to take hold in the adult world. Our focus shifts from the interior turmoils of late adolescence—“Who am I?” “What is truth?”—and we become almost totally preoccupied with working out the exte