Transcript Unit 6

Unit 6
Shaping and Reshaping Personality
(II)
Part I Warming up
• A. Health Tips
1. Vocabulary:
• health tips: advice on health
• cholesterol: 胆固醇
• elongate: make longer; stretch
• to elongate one’s life
• chemical: 化学物质, 化学成分
• substance: 物质
• Instructions:
• You are going to hear some health tips.
Listen carefully and fill in the chart with
key words.
2. Key:
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Advice
drinking tea
no smoking
Why
protecting health
reducing risk of
developing lung cancer
walking
good effect on heart
no extremely large amounts of large
amounts of some vitamins
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some vitamins
may cause health
problems
getting vitamins from fresh,
good for health
natural food
laughter
releasing chemical that is lifeenhancing and life-elongating
healing wounds
promoting a healthier being
B. Health difference between
men and women
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abdomen:
the belly; the stomach area
serotonin:
血清素; 5-烃色胺
gastric:
related to the stomach and the system that breaks
down food in the stomach.
• He has a gastric ulcer. 他有胃溃疡.
• dehydrogenase:
• 脱水氢化酶
• Listen to a report about health differences
between men and women. Supply the
missing information
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Women
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abdomen pain; stomach sickness;
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depression two or three times
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higher alcohol levels in the blood;
more slowly
Part II. Hand washing
• Vocabulary:
• organism: a living creature
• Bacteria are very small organisms.
• cholera: a serious, often deadly disease of
the stomach and intestines found mainly in
tropical countries.
• e.g. Those poor people caught cholera from
bad drinking water.
• hepatitis: liver disease, usu. caused by a
virus 肝炎; 传染性肝炎;
• infection: a disease or sickness received by
sb. or sth. 传染; 感染
• One rat bite can start the spread of infection.
• SARS is an infectious disease. (SARS
stands for severe acute respiratory
syndrome.
Pre-listening Questions:
• 1. Do you often wash your hands? When?
• 2. Do you think hand washing is a serious
issue? Why/ Why not?
• 3. How do you wash your hands?
• Training focus: Selecting information and
outlining
Key:
• The findings of a recent study:
• Only 67% of Americans questioned wash
their hands after using public restrooms.
• American men are less likely than women
to wash their hands after using a public
restroom.
• The importance of hand washing:
• reducing the spread of infectious diseases
• Common infections spread by hand:
• colds, influenza, throat and ear infections, food
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poisoning, cholera, hepatitis
Measures taken to get more people to wash hands:
launching a public information campaign
The correct method of hand washing:
washing with soap and hot water for at least 15
seconds.
Part III
• How to Deal with Depression and Anger?
• depression: a mental illness which causes feelings
of sadness and loss of hope, changes in sleeping
and eating habits, loss of interest in your usual
activities, and pains which have no physical
explanation
• psychotherapy: The treatment of mental and
emotional disorders through the use of
psychological techniques designed to encourage
communication of conflicts and insight into
problems, with the goal being relief of symptoms,
changes in behavior leading to improved social
and vocational functioning, and personality
growth.
• moderate:
• being within reasonable or average limits;
not excessive or extreme
• The hotel is moderate in its charges.
• 这家饭店收费适中。
• Imposing sanctions is a moderate action
when you consider that the alternative is
military intervention.
• First listen to a talk about how to treat
depression. Fill in the blanks with the words
you hear.
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sad
temporary
long
mental
anyone
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developing
80%
effectively
carefully
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without, activity
minor, walking
30, four
improve
physical
traditional
hour, talking
doctors, Discussion
ways; problems
education; understand
B. How to deal with anger.
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tether: (能力等的)限度,范围
[the S]This is beyond my tether.这是我力所不
能及的。
at the end of your tether:
having no strength or patience left:
By 6 o'clock after a busy day I'm at the end of
my tether.
suppress: to inhibit the expression of (an impulse,
for example); check: suppress a smile.
Even the grave old gentleman could not suppress
a laugh.
连那位严肃的老绅士都禁不住笑了。
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manifest:
to show or demonstrate plainly; reveal
surly:
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones
of menace
脾气坏的,乖戾的;粗鲁的;不友好的
She is always so surly; she never smiles at
anyone.
她总是那么个坏脾气,对谁也没有一个笑脸。
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cleanse:
使清洁;清洗 clean one's body or parts thereof,
as by washing
The nurse cleansed the wound before stitching it.
• 护士缝合伤口之前先把它清洗干净。
to make someone or something morally clean or pure:
使纯净,净化(某人的罪恶等)
• [(+of/from)]cleanse one's thoughts of sin洗涤脑
中的邪念
• vent: To express (one's thoughts or feelings, for
example), especially forcefully.
• 泄露;发泄感情
• He vented his anger on his wife.
• 他向他的妻子发火。
• Now Listen to two speakers talking about
dealing with anger. Fill in the blanks with
key words.
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
What kind of
person?
rarely get angry
joyous, warm,
loving person
How to deal
with anger?
not suppress anger use excuse to
manifest anger in vent anger on
sb.
a sarcastic way
dump anger