1、Unit2,Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.,Why does Samantha refuse to read Allys resume? 2. Why does Samantha need help?,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Because she says, “References are much more important in this li
2、ne of work. Tony vouched for you. Thats all I care about.”,Her husband has been back East for the last two months opening their New York office. Meanwhile she is here desperately trying to balance being a mother, being a father, and running an entire advertising agency. So she has come to the inevit
3、able conclusion that she needs help.,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Ally: Hi! Ally Leeds. I have a 9:00 with Samantha Ryland. Secretary: Yeah. Have a seat right over there and she should be right with you. Can I get you anything? A raspb
4、erry scone? Ally: No, thank you. Im allergic to raspberries. Secretary: Okay. Justin: Oh, oh. Oh my, Im so sorry. Ally: Its okay. Youve got a little something on Justin: I have insurance if you want to exchange information. Ally: Youve got youve got a little something on your chin. Uh, let me.,Video
5、 Script1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Secretary: Justin, Dolans waiting for you in the conference room. Justin: Ill be right there. Good? Ally: Yeah. Justin: I gotta go. Secretary: Okay, these are your messages. And thats Ally Leeds. Your 9:00. Samantha: Oh. Mm, 10 minutes early. Prom
6、ptness is a virtue today. How do you do? Samantha Ryland. Ally: Ally Leeds. Samantha: Perfect. Follow me. Hold my calls unless its Donner. I just wanted to say what an incredible honour it is to finally meet you. I mean, what you did with the Fiora Perfume line was genius.,Video Script2,Audiovisual
7、Supplement,Cultural Information,Video Script3,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Ally: Yeah, it smelled like wet dog. Well, Edwin land used to say that marketing is what you do when your products no good. Samantha: Mmm, you did your homework. Have a seat. Ally: Is that the original Pumpkin
8、Patch Doll? Samantha: Sure is. Put the Ryland Agency on the map. But that was a long time ago. When men were men and ads were ads. Lets talk whats your name? Ally: Ally. Samantha: Ally Leeds. Ally: Let me give you a copy of my resume.,Video Script4,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Samanth
9、a: Ah, keep it. References are much more important in this line of work. Tony vouched for you. Thats all I care about. So how do you feel about personal fitness? Ally: I jog three miles a day. Samantha: And Shakespeare? Ally: Well, actually I played the Courtezan in a college production of “A Comedy
10、 of Errors.” I believe in incorporating a little dramatic flair Samantha: What about homework? Ally: Im a big believer of always being prepared.,Video Script5,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,Samantha: Terrific. Can you be available at a moments notice? Ally: Im very dedicated. Samantha:
11、Also Im looking for a disciplinarian. Ally: I ran my division for two weeks when Johnson went on vacation. Samantha: Hmm. Good. I believe in being honest so Im gonna be straight with you. My husband has been back East for the last two months opening our New York office. Meanwhile I am here desperate
12、ly trying to balance being a mother, being a father, and running an entire advertising agency. I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I need help. Excuse me.,1. A recent global survey by the Centre for Work-Life Policy, a New York-based nonprofit group, found that 45% of executives were “extr
13、eme” workers, putting in more than 60 hours a week. Some 65% of men said their work stopped them from having a strong relationship with their children. The same was true for 33% of women.,Cultural information 1,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,3. A person who is addicted to work may exper
14、ience depression, anxiety, anger, high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system as a result of the high stress. 4. Spouses and children can also be affected, with workaholics having a higher divorce rate than others.,Cultural information 2,Audiovisual Supplement,Cultural Information,2. Workaholi
15、sm has not been extensively researched and does not have a clear, clinical definition, but it can be a serious problem.,In a colloquial style, the author paints an ironic picture of the life of a company man and his family. The man was a workaholic who died of a heart attack, which surprised no one.
16、 He devoted all his thoughts and energy to work and everything else was secondary to that and the end might be considered tragically heroic: he worked himself to death.,Global Reading - Text Analysis,Structural Analysis,Text Analysis,Structural analysis,Structural Analysis,Text Analysis,The introduc
17、tory part.,This part reports how devoted the man was to his work.,This part describes Phils role in his family.,This is the end of the essay. After the cause of Phils death being restated, the author goes on to report the company presidents inquiry for his successor.,14-16,Detailed reading1-2,Detail
18、ed Reading,The Company Man Ellen Goodman 1 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. 2 The obituary didnt say that, of 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. H
19、e 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.,Detailed reading3-4,3 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
20、 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 retired soon enough have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that. 4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own c
21、ompany had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” 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. He was, of co
22、urse, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didnt smoke.,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading5-7,5 On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend. 6 He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of
23、 them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didnt mention that. 7 But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an o
24、ffice 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 company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading8-10,8 “Missing
25、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.” 9 His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funera
26、l, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. 10 His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving som
27、ewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading11-13,11 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. He was the one who tried to grab at his f
28、ather, 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. 12 The boy once said, “My father and I only board here.” 13 At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-ye
29、ar-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, she would need him to straighten out the finances the stock options and a
30、ll that.,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading14-16,14 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. 15 So when he finally worked himself to death
31、, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised. 16 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 three the men. He asked around: “Whos been working the harde
32、st?”,Detailed Reading,1. What is the general tone of this article? What is the authors attitude toward Phil?,Detailed reading1-Quesion,The general tone of this article is sarcastic. In describing in a mockingly serious manner different peoples responses to Phils death, the author wants to make the r
33、eaders see the absurdity of a society that produces such a tragic figure as Phil. He is, in the deep sense, sympathetic with Phil, whose ignorance of the cause of his own tragedy renders him more tragic.,Detailed Reading,2. Why does the author frequently mention the time “3.00 a.m. Sunday morning”?,
34、Detailed reading2-Quesion,The time is revealing, from which readers can be easily attracted to give a deep thinking about the cause of Phils tragedy for 3.00 a.m. is within the small hours which might indicate that Phil had frequently worked well into the night when alive.,Detailed Reading,Detailed
35、reading3-5-Quesion,Detailed Reading,Why does the author mention the company presidents inquiries about Phils replacement at the end of the article?,From this detail we can get the idea that the company, as well as other parts of the society, operates like a lifeless and ruthless machine and all peop
36、le working in it have been dehumanized and transformed into parts of this machine. Therefore, we can draw the lesson that Phils tragedy is not merely a tragedy of himself, but rather of all the people who are not aware of their miserable existence or do not have the insight and power to change matte
37、rs.,Detailed reading1 Activity,Class Activity Group discussion: Why isnt the name of the deceased mentioned at the very beginning?Unlike most essays which usually make it clear who the character is at the very beginning, this essay begins with the pronoun “He.” At the end of the third paragraph wher
38、e the name was finally mentioned, readers only get to know the first name of the deceased, not his full name. This, on the one hand, is meant to get the readers involved in finding out who is being discussed, and on the other, suggests the fact that workaholism has become a common phenomenon. The de
39、ceased was only one of the many workaholics who bury themselves in their work and forget all about their individuality.,Detailed Reading,to death used after an adjective or a verb to emphasize the action, state, or feeling mentioned,Detailed reading1 to death,e.g.,worried to death; frightened to dea
40、th; bored to death; starve to death; put to death,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading1 obituary,Detailed Reading,obituary (infml obit) n. printed notice (e.g. in a newspaper) of a persons death, often with a short account of his life and achievements,coronary thrombosis obstruction of a coronary arter
41、y by a thrombus, often leading to destruction of heart muscle （心脏的）冠状动脉血栓症,Detailed reading2 coronary thrombosis,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading2- overweight 1,overweight adj. (of people) too heavy and fat,Detailed Reading,Collocations:,a bit / a little / slightly overweight,e.g.,He was tall and s
42、lightly overweight. Hes a bit overweight, not too much.,seriously / heavily overweight (=very overweight),e.g.,Being seriously overweight doubles the risk of heart disease.,grossly overweight (=extremely overweight),e.g.,The vet said the dog was grossly overweight and that it was affecting his heart
43、.,be 5 kilos / 20 pounds, etc. overweight,e.g.,Im about 15 pounds overweight right now.,Detailed reading2 overweight 2,Comparison:,fat: having too much flesh on your body. It is rude to tell someone directly that they are fat.,Detailed Reading,e.g.,She thinks shes fat. He looks the same, just a litt
44、le fatter.,overweight: weighing more than you should. Many diseases are caused by being overweight.,She was several kilos overweight.,large: used when saying that someone is tall and often fat. “Large” is more common than “big” in written English.,My father was a large man. two large ladies,e.g.,e.g
45、.,Detailed reading2 overweight 3,Detailed Reading,Comparison:,obese: extremely fat in a way that is unhealthy,e.g.,He went to a summer camp for obese teenagers.,chubby: slightly fat in a nice-looking way (used especially about babies and children),A chubby little baby was playing on the rug.,plump:
46、a woman or child who is plump is slightly fat, especially in a pleasant way,Her mother was a plump cheerful woman.,e.g.,e.g.,flabby: having soft loose flesh rather than strong muscles,a flabby stomach Her body was getting old and flabby.,e.g.,Detailed reading2 overweight 4,Detailed Reading,Compariso
47、n:,portly: (literary) fat and round used especially about an old man,e.g.,The bishop was a portly middle-aged gentleman.,Detailed reading7- survive,survive v. live longer than sb. else, usually sb. closely related to you,Detailed Reading,Practice,那老太太的子女都先她而去世了。,The old lady has survived all her chi
48、ldren.,Detailed reading3- lineup,lineup n. a line of people that is formed for inspection or identification,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading4 He had no outside ,He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. (Paragraph 4),Paraphrase:,
49、He had dedicated all his time to his work and had no hobby at all, except that he played a golf game every month, which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway.,Detailed Reading,Detailed reading7 She had,She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. (Paragraph 7),Paraphrase:,Their daughter said that, when the children were still small, her father had become a company man and her mother had given up any attempt to keep him at home.,
