新世纪英语专业本科生综合教程第二第册Unit.ppt

Unit13;Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.;Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2;Ok, so we are done. All right. You know let’s just take off for a few weeks. Yeah. What do you mean by “yeah”? I’m not kidding. You always that this is our busiest time. I need to get out of the town. You know, I think I need some peace and quiet. Whatever these people go away for. You know what I really want to do. I want to eat carbs so I wouldn’t need to kill myself. You know, I want to read a book, not just a magazine, an;actual book. For years I read these reviews I buy the books but I never read them. Did you read that article in New York Times last Sunday? Severe stress makes women age prematurely because stress causes DNA in our cells to shrink until they can no longer replicate. So when we are stressed we looked haggard. This is just women not men. I’m sorry. Remember when I used to say that single women over the age of 35 will more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to get married. OK, that was horrible. But now our generation is;also not getting married and bonus, real terrorists actually become part of our lives. So the stress of it at all actually shows up on our faces making us look haggard.;Cultural information 1;Cultural information 2;All the efforts we make in our social life may lead to the ultimate purpose of seeking happiness. Yet in modern world people are so drifted by their busy schedules that we may one day find out that we have been far away from our original target. This text is written from those who might get lost during our long journey of struggle. We learn from the text that the problem of overscheduling has three main causes, which are economic cause, technological cause and, the most important, psychological cause. All these causes, when working together, make us the slaves of our own schedules and lose our fun in doing things. Besides this macroscopic change in our value judgment, ;Global Reading - Text Analysis;