自學(xué)單元導(dǎo)學(xué)Unit8BeautyandCareer

1、unit 8 beauty and careerpart 1 communicative activities1. interactive listening and speakingaims: 1) learning to build a case of argument with facts2) learning to talk about historical, cultural, and personal reasons for doing cosmetic surgery3) practicing the listening and speaking skill for talkin

2、g about beautylearning suggestions:1) learning to predict the speakers attitudes2) identifying the facts mentioned in the talk show scripts: what is your definition of beauty and beautiful?mary wendy: a tv hostesssue jaycee: a former top model, now a businesswomanelizabeth young: a writer and univer

3、sity lecturermary good morning and welcome to “head to head”. todays topic is beauty. what is beauty? what lengths can we or should we go to, to make ourselves more beautiful? in order to help answer your questions, i have two beautiful people with me! sue jaycee, a former top model, is now a succes

4、sful businesswoman. elizabeth young is a writer and lecture. sue, perhaps we should start with you. do you think people should try to be beautiful?sue well, first, thanks for the compliment, mary. now, the way i see it, youre only on this earth for a short time, and youve only got one body, so you s

5、hould look after it. youve got to watch to eat, keep yourself fit, and later, if you need a little help from cosmetic surgery, whats wrong with that?elizabeth i think its up to everyone to decide what is right for them, but i do feel that there is too much emphasis on appearance these days. and i th

6、ink there are real dangers here. there are dangers from eating disorders, like anorexia, and from having cosmetic surgery. and there are a lot of people who are unhappy because they just dont happen to fit societys current ideas about what is beautiful.mary yes, youre a historian; perhaps you could

7、give us a brief historical perspective on this.elizabeth well, there are lots of examples of societies in which people have done some horrendous things so as to make themselves more “beautiful” in quotes. for instance, foot-binding used to be common in china. in europe, some women had their bottom r

8、ibs removed so that they would have thin waists. neck-stretching was the fashion in some parts of burma. in africa, there were tribes which went in for stretching the ear lobes, or the lips, or even changing the shape of the skull itself. these are all cases in which peopleusually womenhave been for

9、ced by society to endure considerable physical pain and sufferingsue yes, i would agree with you that that is all ridiculous, but were talking here about people who are free to choose. no one forced people to come along to my health studios. after a course at one of my studio, they look as if they w

10、ere ten years younger. theyre free to come, and they enjoy coming. so i dont see there is any real point in looking back at all these quaint old customs.elizabeth well, unfortunately some of them still go on today. its not just history. and surely you can see the link with cosmetic surgery1 i mean,

11、its a trend that just keeps on increasing. thousands of women, having breast implants, eye operations, face-lifts, men having hair transplantssue yes, but its their own choice.elizabeth im sorry, i dont think it is a free choice. society is still pushing them into it. judging people by their appeara

12、nce is silly. we should judge the whole person.mary well, i think weve had a very good start of the discussion. now, wed like to find out what our listeners think about this issue. language points go to length(s): to be willing to do anything, however difficult, dangerous, unpleasant, or morally wro

13、ngbe up to sb: to be sbs duty or responsibility; to be for sb to decide e.g. its not up to you to tell me how to do my job. anorexia: a serious illness, esp. suffered by young women, in which there is loss of the desire for food and refusal to eat horrendous: 1.extremely shocking, terrible; 2.extrem

14、ely unpleasant and unacceptable e.g. horrendous injuries horrendous trafficquaint: attractive in an unusual and old-fashioned waywhats the point?/theres no point (in) doing : used to say that you do not think something is worth doinglanguage work a fill in the following blanks with the words from th

15、e text.answers1. considerable 2. perspective 3. quaint 4. endure 5. link6. current 7. emphasis 8. cosmetic 9. surgery 10. trend11. horrendousb rewrite the following sentences with the expressions in the box. answers for reference1. while living in the countryside, she went in for gardening.2. father

16、 went to great lengths to give the old house a face-life.3. since we have already settled the problem, there is no point in talking about it again.4. it is up to the students themselves to decide their future careers.5. the manager will judge the project by its net profit.6. when he was thumping mel

17、ons for a ripe one, the boy happened to step into a rattlers mouth.7. it is ridiculous, scientists have argued, to talk of computers as if they were human brains.8. they kept on walking for a while in silence.part 2 reading and language activitiesaims1) learning to use signals in the text to build u

18、p a coherent story2) learning to understand the humor of the article media madness3) practicing interpreting meaning of phrases, metaphors by contextual cluesreading suggestions:1) discuss the pre-reading task 1 (all those characteristics are gender-free, but society tends to impose certain characte

19、rs onto men or women, e.g. people tend to think men are more technically savvy then women, but this story shows the contrast.)2) study the pre-reading task 2 to get familiarized with some technical terms (answers: a. floppy disks; b. cork board; c. usb thumb drive; d. push pin/ thumbtack; e. cd-driv

20、e; f. cubicles; g. hard drive)comprehension tasksa put these sentences back into their correct positions in the article.answersa. 9 b. 5 c. 7 d. 3 e. 10 f. 4 g. 2 h. 1 i. 8 j. 6 b humoranswer for referencesentences ©, (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) sound humorous and the rest of the sentences seem to

21、be reporting a fact, or give a description.the author quotes the managers in her attempt to dramatize the situation, in which two managers (men) are described as two technically ignorant people who “came storming”, and spoke with “confidence” to the “naïve intern”. these two humorous descriptio

22、ns successfully paved way for later description of their attitudes to look upon her as saint when she gave them back up data.sentence f is an obvious exaggeration of her frequency to replace new hard disks in her lifetime, which is humorously said to be more frequent than her change of new pairs of

23、shoes. sentence h is an example of self-derision, suitable for a woman to say that she has so many usb thumb drives that she could make a necklace out of them.sentence i and g are again self-derisions. to make a flashy fish like what her mother did by recycling the disks, she seems to have found an

24、alternative to her important discovery “to etch data on the stone” as the most fault tolerant medium.language workanswers for referencea phrases in context(1) go into my office quickly, angrily, and loudly(2) make a note in the mind (did not write it down)(3) the users who have poor knowledge about

25、how to use computers(4) something that cant be done, or prohibited(5) give a short lesson (to the two managers) on the use of computer disks(6) the features that characterize our civilization, such as computers, electronic technologies, etc.(7) (i.e. stone is) the most error-resistant form of media

26、storage (tolerating human faults)(8) these several strange, unpleasant ideas (“train” indicates a series of something)(9) replace my computer in two years of purchase(10) they looked upon me as a saint again(11) do something that is considered to be almost impossible(12) the media storage of the mos

27、t up-to-date technologies (state of the art)(13) at this time (i was telling her how,) unexpectedly my mother describedb word studyanswers for reference 1. a. in order to look slim and slender, many young women nowadays are going in for dietingb. i dont like those people who go in for cross dressing

28、.c. many young people in the city go in for ear piercing nowadays.2. a. i dont see any point in doing this kind of exercise.b. there is no point in persuading him because he is very stubborn.c. there is no point in repairing a broken bike like this.3. a. the way i see it, all achievement tests shoul

29、d be cancelled and replaced by proficiency tests.b. the way i see it, cigarettes do no good to human beings; so all cigarette factories should be closed.c. the way i see it, the rich countries will not be immune from the effects of the economic crises of southeastern asia.4. a. nowadays university s

30、tudents are free to choose their jobs after graduation.b. in the past young people were not free to marry the person they loved.c. are you free to choose the subjects at school?5. a. id like to have all the books on my desk removed so that i can put a computer on it.b. she removed her hand from his

31、arm and left him.c. we should have all the chairs and desks removed the classroom so that there will be enough room for the party.6. a. we have got to exercise to keep ourselves fit.b. she is working very hard at keeping herself fit.c. many middle-aged women attend aerobic classes to keep themselves

32、 fit. part 3 extended activitiesi. listening a. passage dictation (textbook)1. practicing suggestionslisten to the passage four times. the first reading is for you to understand the passage. the second and third readings are for you to write down the passage. the fourth reading is for you to check w

33、hat you have written down.read the sentences you have made mistakes with and its better to read after the speaker and reflect on your mistakes.2. scripts people often ask what beauty is and how the beautiful can be distinguished from the ugly. in fact, these questions all deal with matters of evalua

34、tion rather than facts. a hairstyle can be considered by one as beautiful, but by another as ugly. the nature of beauty is associated with so many things that scientific investigation is only of slight help in determining what beauty is. however, different people will find beauty in different things

35、 because their response to beauty is closely related to their upbringing, education, and taste.b. listening comprehension （part 2, workbook）a. multiple choicekeys1. c 2. a 3. a 4. a 5. c 6. bb. blank filling1. smiling, polite 2. ended3. as always4. $100 0005. another will 6. new zealand7. admit 8. p

36、ossible9. secret10. second will 11. considered legal 12. november 3113. tried to bargain 14. quite rightaudio scripts(t=thomas, s=dr. scott)t: dr. scott, i have some problems since my father died and left me all his money. do you remember martin, the man who took care of my fathers gardens for many

37、years?s: the smiling, polite fellow, right?t: thats the man. i told him his job ended the day my father died. well, three days ago he came to my office, smiling as always, and demanded that i pay him $100 000. he claimed to have been taking care of the trees outside my fathers room when dad prepared

38、 another will, leaving all of his money to his brother in new zealand.s: you believe him?t: i admit the news surprised me. sometime during the last week in november, dad and i had argued about my plans to marry elizabeth. dad did not want us to marry, so it seemed possible that he decided to change

39、his will and leave all his money to his brother instead of to me. martin said he had my fathers second will and offered to sell it to me and keep it a secret for $100 000. he told me that the second will would be considered legal because it was dated november 31, the day after the will in which my f

40、ather left his money to me. i refused. he tried to bargain, asking for $50 000, and then $25 000.s: you paid him nothing, i hope?t: nothing at all. i told him to get out of my house.s: quite right. the story is clearly not true!part 4 tem 4 practicereading comprehensiontext 1: 1. a 2. d 3. a 4. d 5.

41、 ctext 2: 6. c 7. a 8. a 9. b 10. ctext 3: 11. a 12. c 13. a 14. d 15. ctext 4: 16. d 17. bii. read morenotes1. to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away: (humorous) to make sure that women do not have freedom to move around because of the physical restrictions such as “foot

42、-binding”2. even if she stays around, she cannot keep up with you: (figurative) even if a woman is with a man, she does not have much freedom to move around as the man does3. samantha and sammy: samantha is a name for female whereas sammy is for male4. when your feet are killing you: when your feet

43、get painful5. you are faint with hunger: you are faint because of hunger6. for a while in the sixties and seventiesunless you choose to be: that means in the sixties and seventies the tight and high-heel shores were not popular; and people did not have to suffer unless they intended to torture thems

44、elves comprehension taskschoose the best answer to each of the following questions.answers1. a 2. d 3. a 4. d 5. cgrammar worklearning suggestionspredicative adjectives: predicative adjectives refer to the adjectives that can only be used as a complement of a linking verb such as “be”. (e.g. sleep,

45、awake, alike etc.)in addition to the adjectives mentioned in the exercise, here are more adjective in this category: afraid, safe, un/likely, aware, ill, sorry, well, apart, due, ready, unablepredicative adjective+ to do/ that clause: some predicative adjectives must be followed by “to do” structure

46、 or the meaning of the sentence will not be complete.here are additional words used in this structure: un/able, due, inclined, loath, un/willing, bound, fated, liable prepared, doomed, fit, likely.answers1. she was too proud to apologize.2. he lay awake all night, thinking about his new job.3. the doctors are working very hard to keep the patient alive.4. the two sisters are remarkably alike in appearance.5. i wanted to be alone for some time.6. “dont disturb the sleeping dog!” mother warned.7. isnt she content to h