新视野大学英语读写教程（第二版）第四册Unit 5 Section BRoommate Conflicts.ppt

Reading Skills,Text Study,Notes to the Text,Words and Expressions,Idea Sharing,Predicting the Writers Ideas,Making predictions while you read keepsyour mind alert;its a way to double-check your comprehension of what youve read so far,and itcan be a great aid to understanding what comes next.We can predict the writers ideas from titles,subtitles,sentences,or paragraphs.,Practice,Reading Skills,Predicting the Writers Ideas,Take a look at the title of Text A,and predict what information the passage might give.,Reading Skills,Title Predicting 1,Choose to Be Alone on Purpose,1.Reasons why some people choose to be alone on purpose.2.Advantages and disadvantages of being alone on purpose.3.Negative social influence of some people choosing to be alone on purpose.4.Positive results of some people choosing to be alone on purpose.,Reading Skills,Take a look at the title of Text B,and predict what information the passage might give.,Reading Skills,Title Predicting 2,Roommate Conflicts,1.What roommate conflicts may appear.2.Negative influence of roommate conflicts.3.Reasons for roommate conflicts.4.How roommates solve their conflicts.5.What schools do to solve the problem of roommate conflicts.6.Does conflict resolution work?,Reading Skills,Read the following two paragraphs and choose the answer to the prediction.,Reading Skills,Paragraph Predicting 1,As supplier of most of the food we eat and of raw materials for many industrial processes,agriculture is clearly an important area of the economy.But the industrial performance of agriculture is even more important than this.For in nations where the productivity of farmers is low,most of the working population is needed to raise food and few people are available for production of investment goods or for other activities required for economic growth.Indeed,one of the factors related most closely to the per capital income(人均收入)of a nation is the fraction of its population engaged in farming.In the poorest,(To be continued),Reading Skills,Reading Skills,nations of the world more than half of the population lives on farms.This compares sharply with less than 10 per cent in Western Europe and less than 4 per cent in the UnitedStates.In short,the course of economic development in general depends in a fundamental way on the performance of farmers.This performance in turn,depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment,or market structure,within which it function.In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examined.It is appropriate to begin with a conversation of its marketstructure.,Question,Question,Reading Skills,This passage will most probably be followed by a discussion of _.A)the structure of American farming populationB)the market structure of American agricultureC)the various functions of American agricultureD)the organization of American agriculture,Key:B,Reading Skills,Paragraph Predicting 2,Read Text B and predict what might follow in the next paragraph or parts.There are a few predictions inserted in the passage and check them.,Paragraph 2Paragraphs 4-6Paragraph 7Paragraphs 8-9,Prediction 1,Reading Skills,After reading the title and the first paragraph,you find that Sarah was incompatible with her roommate.You can make predictions that thefollowing paragraph might be about:,Key:A,A)how Sarah found a way out of her miserable situationB)how Sarah tried to improve her relation with her roommateC)what Sarah did to punish her roommate,Prediction 2,Reading Skills,After reading paragraph 3,you know that roommate conflicts are common in college dormitories.From this,you can predict that thefollowing parts might be about:,Key:C,A)what schools do to solve the problem of roommate conflictsB)how to avoid roommate conflictsC)the reasons for roommate conflicts,Prediction 3,Reading Skills,From paragraphs 4-6,you learn the negative impacts of roommate conflicts and the reasons for roommate conflicts.In the next paragraph,youmight read:,Key:B,A)students are trying to solve the conflicts by themselvesB)as small conflicts might lead to serious violence if not attended to in time,schools are taking necessary measures nowC)schools are not taking roommate conflicts seriously,Prediction 4,Reading Skills,From paragraph 7,you learn schools have started conflict resolution programs to calm tensions.In the next paragraph,you mightread:,Key:C,A)conflict resolution programs yield very good resultsB)conflict resolution programs do not workC)conflict resolution programs have met new problems,Short Answer Questions,Why didnt Sarah get along with her roommate?_.2.What on earth causes roommate conflicts?_.3.Learning to tolerate another ones habits is _.,They warred over small and irritating matters,Different personalities,painful,Short Answer Questions,Text Study,4.Roommate conflicts may lead to _ _ _.5.To deal with roommate conflicts,schools resort to conflict resolution programs such as _.6.Many schools make extensive efforts to make good roommate matches,but the outcomes are _.,little or no or silent communication,depression,quarrels,and even violence,roommate contracts or computerized matching,unsatisfactory,Text Study,Focus Study,Active Expressions,I.Active Expressions,1.While Katie got along with her roommate,Sara was miserable.2.determined to strike out on independent paths.3.by taking the forms and filling in false and wishful data 4.gave up on oral communication,communicating primarily through short notes.,Practice,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,get along withstrike outfill ingive up on,form or have a friendly relationship with start doing something new or living by oneself write what is necessary on sth.such as a paper stop hoping that someone or something will change,improve,etc.,Active Expressions,1.我总是觉得他有点难以相处。2.埃里克离开了家族企业,自行创业。3.别忘记填写你的登机卡。4.我已经等了半小时，几乎都要以为你不来了。,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,Ive always found him a bit difficult to get along with.2.Eric left the family business and struck out on his own.3.Dont forget to fill in your boarding cards.4.Ive been waiting half-an-hourId almost given up on you.,Notes to the TextActive Expressions,1.Although the contracts are not binding and will never go to a jury,copies are given to the floors residential adviser in case conflicts later arise.,in case 以防，以防万一,II.Focus Study,Notes to the TextFocus Study,Practice,Combining the Following Parts into Sentences,Notes to the TextFocus Study,rains,you,had better,it,in case,take an umbrella start,am,without,I,in case,me,late in case,you,take,I,the key,out,with,am,You had better take an umbrella in case it rains.In case Im late,start without me.Take the key with you in case I am out.,2.Some schools try to head off feuding before it begins by using computerized matching,a process that nevertheless remains more of a guessing game than a science.,more(of)+n.+than+n.是非,Notes to the TextFocus Study,有些学校试图通过电脑配对安排住宿，以期防止争吵发生。不过这种做法更像推测游戏，并不科学。,Practice,Notes to the TextFocus Study,与其说他是个音乐家不如说他是个诗人。这应当说是战争片而不是西部片。对他们来说，音乐是一种生活方式而不仅仅 是一种爱好。,He is more of a poet than a musician.This is more a war movie than a western.To them,music is more a way of life than just an interest.,Word Using,Old to New,Chinese to English,1.minus a.less than zero,晚上气温能降至零下30度。,At night the temperature can go as low as minus 30.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,I.Word Using,2.vibrate vi.to shake slightly and quickly,我们能感觉到地板随音乐的节拍而颤动。,We can feel the floor vibratingto the beat of the music.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,liberate,3.stale a.no longer interesting or exciting(of food)no longer fresh and often tasting or smelling unpleasant,变味觉得乏味老掉牙的笑话赶走浑浊的空气,go staleget stalethe same stale old jokesget rid of the stale air,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,4.depression n.the state of feeling sad and without hope a period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs,抑郁得不能自己患有严重的抑郁症极度消沉多年的经济萧条,be overcome by depressionsuffer from acute depressionfall into a deep depressionthe long years of economic depression,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,press压,express compressdepress pressureimpress,impressionimpressive,expressionexpressway,depression,5.tolerate vt.to allow sb.to do sth.that you dont like or approve to accept sth.unpleasant,我再也不能容忍你的无礼了。很多工人都说他们无法忍受长时间的工作。,I wont tolerate your bad manners any longer.Many workers said they couldnt tolerate the long working hours.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,6.abstract a./n.existing as an idea in the mind,not related to physical objects;a short summary of a book,essay,etc.,抽象思维抽象推理抽象地将演说作一摘要,abstract thoughtabstract reasoningin the abstractmake an abstract of a speech,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,tract拉，引,tractor abstractattractcontractdistractsubtract,attractionattractive,7.nevertheless ad.despite what has just been said or done,你说的都是实话，只不过有点刻薄。,What you said was true.It was,nevertheless,a little unkind.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,plicate vt.to make sth.more difficult to deal with,do or understand,我周五得加班，这使情况更复杂了。一组复杂的用法说明,The situation is complicated by the fact that Ive got to work late on Friday.a complicated set of instructions,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,我们浑身是泥地走进来时，她惊呼道：“瞧瞧你们这样子！”,“Look at you!”she exclaimed when we came in,all in mud.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,8.exclaim v.to say sth.suddenly and loudly because of surprise,tear,pleasure,etc.,9.mess n.a dirty or untidy state,把厨房搞得乱七八糟收拾一下这脏乱的地方使公司成了一个烂摊子把经济搞得如此糟糕,make a mess in the kitchenclean up this messleave the company in a messmake such a mess of the economy,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,10.odds n.(pl.)the chances that sth.will or will not happen,现在就投资吧预算完成后股价可能会上涨。,Invest nowthe odds are that the share prices will rise after the budget.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,11.against all(the)odds in spite of the difficulties that would make sth.impossible,尽管非常困难，赛车手劳德在严重受伤的情况下痊愈了。,Against all the odds,racing driver Lauda recovered from his terrible injuries.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,12.end up to finish by doing sth.,你要是继续行窃终归得进监狱。最初他拒不承认有任何责任，到头来还是道了歉。,If you continue to steal,you will end up in prison.At first he refused to accept any responsibility but he ended up apologizing.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,13.spring from be caused by sth.or start from sth.,她对别人的不礼貌是由于她缺乏基本的安全感所致。,Her rudeness to other people springs from a basic insecurity.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,假若谈判失败，我们就采取罢工行动。,If negotiations fail,we shall have to resort to strike action.,14.resort to to make use of sth.for help,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,15.head off to prevent sth.from happening,自接手以来，他们已避免了好几次危机。,Theyve headed off several crises since they took charge.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,16.on the basis of based on,雇主不允许有性别歧视。,Employers are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,16.sum up to state the main points of sth.in a short and clear form,因此，概括地说，我们需要集中精力抓职工培训。,So,to sum up,we need to concentrate on staff training.,Words and ExpressionsWord Using,spokenbeing depressednot newput up with;endurechoicegeneral ideassoon,oral depression stale tolerate selection abstract before long,II.Old to New,Words and ExpressionsOld to New,III.Chinese to English,室友间的冲突闯出独立之路与他的室友相处融洽广泛的努力过时的新闻不新鲜的面包,roommate conflicts strike out on independent roads get well along with his roommate extensive effort stale news stale bread,Words and ExpressionsC to E,心理健康严重的抑郁症经济萧条理科大学本科学生源于主任助理自杀,psychological health severe depression economic depression science undergraduate spring from assistant director commit suicide,Words and ExpressionsC to E,逐步增强/建立有约束力的协议在的基础上概括 填写二年级的学生尽管有极大的困难,build up binding contract on the basis of sum up fill in a second-year student against all odds,Words and ExpressionsC to E,Discussion,Watch the video clip and discuss in groups：1.The problems between roommates,Idea Sharing,Discussion,Life Translated 2,Life Translated 3,2.Making a Roommate Agreement,Idea Sharing,Tips,1.Atmosphere(Studying,Sleeping,and Social Activities)2.Study and Sleep Time3.Cleanliness of Room4.Bathroom Etiquette5.Use of Personal Possessions6.Guests and Visitors7.Leaving Messages8.Substance-Related Behaviors(smoking,drinking,etc.)9.Communication and Addressing Concerns10.Monthly Meetings,Tips,Idea Sharing,To Task,To Horizon,The End of Section B,