Unit 2 The Company Man工作狂.ppt

The Company Man;What do you know about Karoshi?;Watch a piece of news to get more knowledge about Karoshi;[过劳死]Karoshi can be translated quite literally as death from overwork. The major medical causes of karoshi-deaths are heart attack and stroke. Japan is famed as a nation of workaholics. ;Japans rise from the devastation of World War II to economic prominence between 1945 and 1975 was not without human cost. People cannot work for ten or twelve hours a day six and seven days a week, year after year, without suffering physically as well as mentally. ;People may ask: Why do the Japanese work themselves to death. Why dont they just take a rest before they collapse? Cultural differences are often invoked to explain why the Japanese ‘do this to themselves.’ Another explanation for why Japanese workers immerse themselves in their jobs is that it is a customary practice produced by long-term international competition;Case studies indicate that the main reason for over-work is rooted in the very nature of the Japanese. Japanese corporate society has been infused with the ideology in such a way that working 24-hours a day is seen as exemplary, even idealistic behavior. The social atmosphere is such that a pharmaceutical company advertised a new beverage in a television commercial with the song Can you fight 24 hours for your corporation?;;;;;;What do you know about workaholism/ workaholics?;Listening and filling the blanks;Diarmuid:Hello everybody and welcome to Authentic Real English from the BBC. Im Diarmuid. Jean: And Im Jean. Diarmuid: ______ Jean? ;Jean: Sorry Diarmuid. I am a bit tired today. I didnt leave the office_____________________ . Diarmuid: Midnight! I was in bed by then. Why were you working so late? Jean: I often_________ until that time. Thats normal, isnt it? ;Diarmuid: Maybe Im just______ but that seems very late to be leaving work. How many hours were you in the office? Jean: Oh just 11 or 12 hours. Diarmuid: A 12-hour day! Jean, be careful. ___