CET-B4-Unit6(new) Old Father Time Becomes A Terror 全新版大学英语综合教程（第二版）第四册+英语课件.pptVIP

Old Father Time Becomes A Terror Father Time In art, time is depicted as a old man holding a scythe or a sickle and an hourglass. Father Time Has Become… Form groups of four. Present your three-day hour-by-hour log to your group members and discuss together to see… many unfinished tasks no ability to manage time priorities technology more desires the deadlines a waste of time on trivial matters more social activities … Cultural Notes: consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company’s London headquarters, where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends, Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen. Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil servant, and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in1978 to hitchhike around the world, and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter. He joined the Financial Times as a sub-editor four years later. The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London. Its main rival as a daily financial newspaper is the New York City-based Wall Street Journal. Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and his brother, the FT competed for many years with four other finance-oriented newspapers, finally in 1945 absorbing the last of these, the Financial News. The FT has specialised in reporting business and financial news while maintaining an independent editorial outlook. On occasion it has attacked the financial policies of the British government. Circulation of the FT is said to be one of the worlds highest among financial newspapers, second only to that of The Wall Street Journal. Print