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1、,B R _ main,About the Author,English Poem The Wasted Tears,Origin of Workaholic,Gap Filling,Table Completion,Listening Comprehension,B R _ English Poem _ main,English Poem The Wasted Tears,Enjoy a Poem The Wasted Tears,Questions and Answers,Ellen Goodman (1941 ) was born in Massachusetts and graduat
2、ed from Radcliffe College. She worked for Newsweek and the Detroit Free Press before joining The Boston Globe in 1967. Her column “At Large” has been widely syndicated since 1976. As an essayist and television commentator, Goodman has discussed feminism, changes in family life, sexual harassment, an
3、d male and female relationships. Her essays have been collected in several books, including Close to Home (1979), Turning Points (1979) and At Large (1981).,B R _ About the Author 1,About the Author,B R _ About the Author 2,In 1980, Goodman received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. A
4、mong other awards she has won are the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award. The National Womens Political Caucus gave her the Presidents Award, and the Womens Research and Education Institute presented her with their American
5、 Woman Award.,B R _ About the Author 3,B R _ About the Author 4,B R _ About the Author 5,B R _ About the Author 6,They were newly married couple, A few days went on with no . As days passed on, he never turned, While for his love, her heart . She wore daily the best of robes, Diamonds in her ear lob
6、es, But he had his mind on his work. And wasnt to have a look.,B R _ The Wasted Tears 1,The Wasted Tears,by Rajaram Ramachandran,trouble,_,yearned,_,sparkled,_,keen,_,Her heart, one day, nearly , But it was saved from a stroke. With tears she stood before him, He saw her face-glow gone dim. Deeply i
7、n his work, He was up to his desk. Elsewhere was his mind The reason for tears to find. Suddenly, his mind woke up. He , drop by drop, In a test tube all her tears, And mixed some .,B R _ The Wasted Tears 2,broke,_,engrossed,_,stuck,_,collected,_,powders,_,B R _ The Wasted Tears 3,Oh, I found out, m
8、y dear, It is nothing but saline water. So said the husband, Still tied up, work bound.,scientist,_,B R _ Answer questions,Questions and Answers,1. Why did the newly married wife feel very sad?,Her husband was so engrossed in his work that she felt neglected and lonely.,2. What is her husbands job?,
9、A scientist.,3. What did the husband do with her tears?,He collected all her tears drop by drop in a test tube, mixed some powders and finally found out it was nothing but saline water.,4. Is the husband a workaholic?,Yes, of course.,B R _ Origin of Workaholic 1,Origin of Workaholic,Alcoholic was fi
10、rst attested.,A whole new category of taking “-holic” as a suffix meaning “addict” followed.,In 1968,“Workaholic” was first announced.,B R _ Origin of Workaholic 2,In 1971,The use of workaholic prompted many writers to start using the suffixes “-aholic”, “-holic”, or “-oholic” to describe “all-consu
11、ming obsessions”.,In the 1970s,More “holic” words appeared.,B R _ Blank Filling 1,Gap Filling,B R _ Blank Filling 2,1. Definition of workaholic If a person is a workaholic, hes got to be driven to things. In the workdays, they just keep going, keep themselves. And a lot of stress leads to many probl
12、ems, and diseases. 2. Suggestion to deal with workaholism If you are not able to work, and the work you, you may be a workaholic and you may need to seek some outside . Youd be able to in your career world and to deal with other issues. Not let workaholism steal the joy of living.,compulsive need,_,
13、accomplish,_,pushing,_,anxieties,_,let go of,_,holds onto,_,professional help,_,keep balance,_,Type 2,self-sacrificing workaholic,B R _ Table Completion 1,Table Completion,Type 1,They put themselves last and will go to any extreme to please and impress a dominant, parent-type person at work.,dominan
14、t workaholic,They do not care if they are liked, but must be seen as competent. They can be aggressive and arrogant. They seek respect.,B R _ Table Completion 2,Type 3,withdrawn workaholic,They prefer to work alone. They work hard and want to be needed and approved of as well, but do not want to be
15、controlled or dominated. They prefer to keep their emotional distance from others.,B R _ Listening Comprehension 1,Listening Comprehension,Answer the following questions after you listen to the passage.,1. What is the distinction between working hard and being a workaholic?,Working hard involves bei
16、ng organized, focused, getting a lot of work done, knowing when to stop and having a life other than work. Workaholics, on the other hand, are often disorganized, always find reasons for working more.,B R _ Listening Comprehension 2,2. Why are workers willing to burn midnight oil at risk in most com
17、panies?,Most employers want their employees to work longer hours and reward them with higher pay and lots of benefits.,3. When has workaholism become an evident problem?,Workaholism is a problem thats been evident since the Stone Age.,B R _ Listening Comprehension 3,4. How many types of workaholics
18、are there and what are they?,There are three types. First are people with high energy that needs discharging. Second are very competitive people who have a strong need to prove themselves and tie their self-worth to their work. Third are people who use work to escape from something and they keep the
19、mselves so busy working that they have no time or energy to deal with their real problems.,B R _ Listening Comprehension 4,5. What are same traits these three types have?,They cant stand not being active. They find it hard to go on vacation. They are more comfortable being with fellow workers than w
20、ith family and friends. They equate self-worth and success with hard work.,G R _ main,Part Division of the Text,Further Understanding,G R _ Further Understanding _ main,Further Understanding,For Part 1 & 2 True or False,For Part 3 Table Completion,For Part 4 Questions and Answers,G R _ Part Division
21、 of the Text 1,Part Division of the Text,One of six vice-presidents, Phil worked himself to death.,Phil completely tied up himself in work regardless of his health.,G R _ Part Division of the Text 2,A typical workaholic, Phil totally neglected those closest to him his wife and three children.,Phils
22、boss said one thing at the funeral and did quite another soon afterwards.,G R _ True or False 1,True or False,1. Phil was one of the six vice-presidents of a large corporation and one of the three promising candidates who might succeed to the position of the president.,T,( ),2. The company had exten
23、ded the four-day week for everyone in the company.,The company had extended the four-day week for everyone but the executives.,F,( ),G R _ True or False 2,3. In order to have some physical exercise, Phil played golf each month.,F,( ),The monthly golf game offered him a good opportunity to talk or do
24、 business.,4. Phil was overweight by 20 or 25 pounds and he did not realize that he was a heart-attack natural.,T,( ),G R _ Table Completion 1,Table Completion,List all the details to show a typical workaholic Phil in terms of his relation with his family members.,1. She had given up,trying to compe
25、te with his work years ago when the children were small.,2. She must have given up,part of herself which had cared too much for the man.,G R _ Table Completion 2,He researched his father in the neighborhood before the funeral, but found the neighbors knew very little about his father.,Whenever she w
26、as alone with her father, they had nothing to say to each other.,G R _ Table Completion 3,1.,He tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home.,2. It was only over the last two years that Phil began to worry about his youngest son.,The company president began ch
27、oosing his next victim as soon as Phils funeral was over.,G R _ Questions and Answers,Questions and Answers,1. Why did Phils wife hide her bitterness in face of the company president at the funeral?,Because she would need him to straighten out the finances the stock options and all that.,2. Why is i
28、t very easy to identify Phil from a lineup?,Because Phil was a Type A, a typical workaholic, a heart-attack natural.,3. What did the company president do as soon as Phils funeral was over?,He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning. The obituary didnt say that, of
29、 course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis I think that was it but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their head and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.,
30、D R _ t1,The Company Man,Ellen Goodman,This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning on his day off was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably if the president died or reti
31、red soon enough have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that. He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People. He had no outside “extracurricular in
32、terests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk.,D R _ t2,D R _ t3,He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didnt smoke. On Saturdays, Phil wore a spor
33、ts jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.,He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didnt mention that.,D R _ t4,But it did list his “survivors” q
34、uite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A c
35、ompany friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.” “Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.”,D R _ t5,His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” chi
36、ldren is a hardworking executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She l
37、ives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.,D R _ t6,The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd j
38、obs to stay in grass and food.,He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his fathers favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.,The boy once said, “My father and I only board here.”,D R _ t7,A
39、t the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didnt look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all
40、, she would need him to straighten out the finances the stock options and all that. Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office, he was worried about it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.,D R _ t8,So
41、 when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised. By 5:00 P.M. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of the three men. He asked
42、 around: “Whos been working the hardest?”,D R _ He was a perfect ,He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.,What is a perfect Type A?,People exhibiting Type A behaviour tend to be impa
43、tient and highly time-conscious. Often as high-achieving workaholics, they feel insecure about their social status and are extremely competitive and aggressive.,D R _ He was, however, one of ,He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably if the president died or
44、 retired soon enough have moved to the top spot.,What is the implied meaning of the sentence?,He was one of the six vice-presidents of a large corporation and one of the three promising candidates who might succeed to the position of the president.,D R _ He worked like the ,He worked like the Import
45、ant People.,What can you infer from the sentence?,He voluntarily worked overtime because all the executives in the company considered themselves too important a group to be allowed to ease up.,D R _ He had no outside “extracurricular ,He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course,
46、 you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work.,For what purpose did he play golf monthly?,The monthly golf game offered him a good opportunity to talk or do business.,D R _ He is survived by his wife,He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no p
47、articular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering.,Translate this sentence into Chinese.,他的遗孀海伦，四十八岁，一个好女人。但没有什么适合市场需求的技能，结婚生育之前曾在办公室工作。,D R _ A company friend said,A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”,Why di
48、d Phils wife say so?,Being a workaholic, Phil spent little time at home before he died. His wife had missed him long before he died.,D R _ The youngest is twenty,The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food.,What do we learn about Phils youngest son?,His youngest son failed to go in for a college education and did no more than odd jobs to get enough money for marijuana and food.,D