1、Unit 10,2014.11,Business English: A Reading Course,Background information,I. Attitude is everything?Happiness and humor are brothers. II. Happiness, happy.Happiness exists everywhere. Everyone has a different definition to the true meaning of happiness. III. HumorHow to be humorousFor women, the mos
2、t important is confidence.,Warm-up Questions,1. Why do people say attitude is everything? How can we look on the positive side of life?2. Do you think women are less humorous than men? What are the advantages in learning to be funny in the workplace?,Business English: A Reading Course,4,Reading Skil
3、ls: Introduce the Basic Information about Business English Reading,Business English: A Reading Course,Unit 10,习语的来源,A、文学名著,Unit 10,B、圣经故事,Unit 10,C、古希腊、罗马神话传说,Unit 10,D、民间习俗和传说,Make hay while the sun shines. 机不可失。 As cool as a cucumber 泰然自若。 Strike while the iron is hot. 趁热打铁。 You can not eat your c
4、ake and have it. 两者不可兼得。,Unit 10,E、民间故事,Columbuss egg 哥伦布竖鸡蛋，喻指万事开头难。Black Friday 黑色星期五，喻指倒霉的日子。,Unit 10,习语的特性,A. stationarity固定性 习语的结构都是固定的，不能被更改或替换，即使是同义词也不行，比如：不能把rain cats and dogs改成rain dogs and cats或rain a cat and a dog等等。 也就是说，习语的任何一个组成部分都是固定的，随意更改会出现词不达意甚至啼笑皆非的结果。如： out of question 毫无疑问 out
5、of the question 没问题,Business English: A Reading Course,Unit 11,B. Integrality整体性/完整性习语作为完整的语义单位不可随意分割截取使用，应避免望文生义或断章取义。如：to lose ones head 惊慌失措 (不是 “失去了头” )let the cat out of the bag泄密(意义与猫和袋子毫不相干)be/feel under the weather 感觉不舒服，生病beat generation 迷惘/垮掉的一代on the carpet（地毯） 受训斥,Business English: A Rea
6、ding Course,Unit 11,C. nationality/ethnicity民族性,人民大众在长期的劳动中创造出来的，与一个民族的地理环境、历史背景、经济生活、风俗习惯、宗教信仰以及价值观念等方面都有不可分割的联系。 一般都用较恰当的比喻，引起人们的联想，但这种联想是由各民族的现实环境和生活经验决定的。如形容事物迅速而大量地产生： like mushrooms (英语),雨后春笋(汉语)。 英国：大海、水相关的习语，如：to spend money like water挥金如土; to rest on ones oars暂时一歇; over head and ears灭顶之灾; o
7、ver head and ears in debt负债累累； 狗：英国爱狗a lucky dog幸运儿; 中国人模狗样，狗仗人势,Business English: A Reading Course,Unit 11,D. rhetoricity修辞性,习语常常利用音韵的和谐来达到朗朗上口、易懂易记、栩栩如生的目的，许多英语习语利用头韵、尾韵、重复等手法来增加语言的语音美感和修辞效果。如：as busy as a bee(忙如蜜蜂), might and main(竭尽全力), trials and tribulations(烦躁和苦恼)均为头韵；high and dry(孤立无援)，by ho
8、ok and by crook(不择手段)均为尾韵；step by step(逐步)，neck and neck(齐头并进)均为重复。 比喻是英语习语最重要的修辞手段，大部分习语都是利用形象化的比喻使得语言栩栩如生。如，把车站搬运工叫做red cap，因为干这一行的都是带红色帽子的；把酒店侍者叫做bell boy，因为客人一按门铃，侍者就会跑过来服务，等。,Business English: A Reading Course,Unit 11,14,Reading Skills: Introduce the Basic Information about Business English Rea
9、ding,来自其它教材,习语的特性,A、Integrality完整性习语作为完整的语义单位不可随意分割截取使用，应避免望文生义或断章取义。如：be/feel under the weather 感觉不舒服，生病beat generation 迷惘/垮掉的一代on the carpet（地毯） 受训斥,来自其它教材,B、Convention习用性,它指习语广泛地被英语国家人民所沿用，具有广泛的社会基础和强大的生命力。如： rain cats and dogs 倾盆大雨 play cards close to ones chest 保守秘密 A friend in need is a friend
10、 indeed.患难见真交。 a lions share 最大的份额 A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火 As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.自作自受,来自其它教材,C、stationarity固定性,习语的结构都是固定的，不能被更改或替换，即使是同义词也不行，比如不能把rain cats and dogs改成rain dogs and cats或rain a cat and a dog等等。也就是说，习语的任何一个组成部分都是固定的，随意更改会出现词不达意甚至啼笑皆非的结果。如： out of question
11、 毫无疑问 out of the question 没问题,来自其它教材,Questions:1. Why did waiters like to follow Jerry? 2. Whats Jerrys attitude towards choice? 3. Why did Jerry say he was allergic to bullets? 4. According to the author, who has saved Jerry in the end?,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Be Happy Cause I Ch
12、oose Happiness,Text A： Be Happy Cause I Choose Happiness,Notes on the Text:1. Jerry is the kind of guy you love to hate. 杰里是那种让你又爱又恨的家伙。love to hate:又爱又恨，深爱。如：Struggle with this town because you love to hate it but to let it go. 与这个城市争斗，因为你对它又爱又恨，却不愿放弃。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Be
13、Happy Cause I Choose Happiness,Notes on the Text: 2. We lose touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. 我们失去了联系，但是当我对生活做出选择而不是机械反应的时候，我常常想起他。 3. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. 当他试图打开
14、保险箱时，他的手紧张得发抖，把号码锁的号码组合也掉了。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text B： Humour Me,Notes on the Text: 1. Breaking into your offices testosterone-fuelled comedy clique can be toughand even more so if youre a woman. 要加入你办公室里以男性为特征的搞笑团体是困难的，如果你是女人就更困难。testosterone-fuelled：原意是 “受睾丸激素刺激的”，这里比喻以男性为特征的。 2. s
15、tand-up comic: 以说笑话为主的喜剧演员。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text B： Humour Me,Notes on the Text: 3. “In the workplace men and women can feel put-on by the cynical and sarcastic humour of a male boss and not know how to react,” he says. 他说： “在工作场所，不论男女，在面对老板的玩世不恭和极具讽刺的幽默时，都会感到很难堪，不知道如何应对。”,Busines
16、s English: A Reading Course,Text B： Humour Me,Notes on the Text: 4. If you tell a boss you dont like that what hes doing, its confrontational, whereas to do it with humour, the biter is being bitten back. 如果你对你的上司说你不喜欢他所做的事，那就产生了对抗，然而用幽默的方式去说，你就能够以牙还牙。,Business English: A Reading Course,Keys to Exer
17、cises,I. 1. The reason the waiters followed questions about the text.2. He thought that it was ones choice how one lived life.3. Because he was choosing to live and wanted the doctors to operate on him as if he was alive, not dead. II. 1. reflect on 2. get it 3. hold up 4. went up to 5. are supposed
18、6. slipped off,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A,Keys to Exercises,III. 1. 每当有人向我抱怨时，我可以选择接受抱怨，也可以指出生活中积极的一面。 2. 经过18小时的手术和几个星期的细心照顾，吉瑞出院了，子弹碎片依然留在他身体里。 3. 我拒绝看他的伤口，但是问他抢劫发生时他在想什么。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A,Text B,I. T F F F F II. B C B A A III. B C B A D IV. 1. 企业培训师 2. 客户经理
19、 3. 性别差异4. 幽默是一件残酷的事情，应对的方法是学会然后做出正确的反应，以牙还牙。5. 美国安海斯-布希公司的全国客户经理维基戴维斯，在其工作场合所运用的这些技巧，取得了成功。她工作的环境以男性为主，情况往往演变成一种“我对他们”的对立。 6. 但它不仅仅是关于演讲技巧，还在于让你的观点为大家所理解不要试图太逗人发笑，只要顺应自己的感受。,Business English: A Reading Course,Keys to Exercises,1. Try to remember new words and expressions in Unit 10; 2. Make a summary for Part IV Supplementary Reading with no more than 50 words; 3. Finish Part V Test Yourself, five minutes for each passage. 4. Preview new words and expressions in Unit 11.,Business English: A Reading Course,Assignment,
