Unit 4, Book 1Reading Activities

Pre-reading activities While-reading activities Post-reading activities

Pre-reading activities

1. Background information

a. EQ (Emotional Quotient) is your emotional sensitivity and your potential for emotional learning management skills which can help you maximize your long term health, happiness and survival.

b. body language. communications using our gestures, movements, and mannerisms by which we communicates with others . Consciously or unconsciously, we show our true feelings with our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes, causing a chain of reactions, ranging from comfort to fear.

Body language v.s. Verbal language

Communication soundless sounds body movements speaking, listening gestures spoken language facial expressions no facial signs Other subtle signals

How to make a good impression topic

1. You are the message. （你就是名片 idea

examples that

supporting the idea. 例子 a, b…

2. Be yourself. （保持自我） idea

examples 例子

3. Use your eyes. （善用你的眼睛） idea

examples 例子

4. Lighten up.( 放松 ) 写段落： idea +

examples

While-reading activities1. Learn New Words and phrases

2. Important Language points

3. Text structure analysis

1. New Words and phrases

Impression ： n. 印象，印记

1) He has told me his plan and he has made a good impression on me.

Impress: 动词：给…印象，盖章，传送

She’s always trying to impress people with her new clothes.

conscious --------------------unconscious

adj. 有意识的，故意的 -------- adj. 无意识的，

1) The children were conscious of their mother’s unhappiness.

2) He hurt his parents’ hearts, but he did that unconsciously.

Reaction ：反应，反响 联想记忆 态度

What’s his reaction to your idea? attitude to you

Range （ of sth, from…to… ） n. 范围，幅度 v 归类

1) Prices range from $10 to $25.

2) There are 80 students whose ages range from 20 to 40.

3) They can take part in a wide range of free activities.

Focus （ on sth. ） v. 集中（焦点，重点） n. 焦点

1) We must focus on our sales force as the means of

improving trade.

Make/follow an instruction to sb.-----instruct sb./sth. to sb./

n. 介绍，引进 v. 介绍，引进

Absorb -------------------------------absorbed

吸引注意，吸收知识 ------ 专注的，认真的

1)History is a subject that absorbs her.

2) The artist was so absorbed in her work that she didn't’t hear her visitor enter the room.

3) Time passes quickly when you are absorbed in reading a good book.

Consistent --- Consistently

一贯的，一致的 • The second statement is not consistent with the first one.

Committed to sth 投入做… / commit to do sth. 承诺做…

1) He is very committed to the cause of language teaching.

Presentation: presenting of something 描述，陈述，介绍

give a short presentation on our plan.

Rate : 1) the speed with which something happens or is done速度，速率 ;

例： He works at a very fast rate.他工作的速度非常快（他工作很有效率）。

2) the number of occasion within a certain period of time when something happens 比率，发生率例： There is a high accident rate in this factory.这个工厂的事故率很高。

Depress —— 联想记忆—— depression

v. 使人抑郁，沮丧 n. 抑郁 沮丧例： He's been very depressed since he lost his job. 自失去工作以来他心情一直不好。

Roar: 大声叫喊，咆哮 make laud, deep sound例： He roared with laughter at the joke.听到这笑话，他哈哈大笑。

Drive sb. crazy : 令某人疯狂，生气 make sb. angry, mad;

例： His lack of order drove his girlfriend crazy.他的不修边幅令他的女友受不了。

At one’s best: 处于最佳状态，在全盛时期例： This is an example of his work at its best.这代表了他最佳时期的作品。

2. Language points

1) Research shows we make up our minds about people through unspoken communication within seven seconds of meeting them. (Para. 1)

1. make up mind : make a decision,

2. make up mind about …= form opinion about..

2) Consciously or unconsciously, we show our true feelings with our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes, causing a chain of reactions, ranging from comfort to fear. (Para. 1)

Range ： n. 范围，幅度 v 归类 例： Prices range from $10 to $25. There are 20 students whose ages range from 18 to 80. They can take part in a wide range of free activities.

3) Focus on the first seven seconds. What did you think and feel? How did you "read" the other person?

Meaning: Pay special attention to the first seven seconds. What did you feel and think of the man you meet? How did you get the information about the other person at the first sight?4) The secret has always been you are the message. (Para. 3)

Meaning: The best way is that you give off the information about yourself to others.

“ the secret of doing sth.” = “the best way / the only way to do sth.”

Physical 物理的，生理的 ---psychological 心理的

Good qualities include: 1. Physical appearance ： neat, clean

2. full of energy, Be engaged in your work.

pitch and tone of your voice. 语音高低适度，语气平稳

Rate of speech 语言速度适中

Gestures : match your words ， strengthen your impression.

Expression of eyes: send and receive information through eyes contact.

Hold the interest of others.

What made you successful?

1. You were committed to what you were talking about and,

2. Be absorbed in the moment you lost all self-consciousness. (Para. 5)

it means that give all your attention to what you were saying and,

you were so interested in it that you don’t notice all your worries or anything else.

6) Many how-to books advise you to stride into a room and impress others with your qualities. (Para. 6)

Many books that offer advice on how to make a good impression tell you to walk into a room with quick, long steps and let others have the impression of your good qualities.

7) If you follow all this advice, you'll drive everyone crazy － including yourself. (Para. 6)

If you act in the way the how-to books tell you, you'll make everyone upset or annoyed, and make yourself upset and annoyed too.

 

Handshakes

8) The trick is to be consistently you, at your best.

(Para. 7)

The skilled way is that you always have your same behavior, attitude and good qualities all the time and perform as well as you are able to.

9) The most effective people never change from one situation to another. They're the same whether they're having a conversation, addressing their garden club or being interviewed for a job. They communicate with their whole being; the tones of their voices and their gestures match their words. (Para. 7)

Meaning: The most effective people remain consistent in all situations. They act in the same way whether they're talking with others, or they're giving a speech to others in their garden club, or they're being interviewed for a job. They communicate not only with their speech but also with their eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes; the tones of their voices and their gestures are consistent with their words

10) Public speakers, however, often send mixed messages. (Para. 8)

Meaning: Public speakers, however, often send confused messages that is, what they say does not agree with what they do.11) The audience always believe what they see over what they hear. (Para. 9)

Meaning: The audience always think what they see with their own eyes is more important than what they hear, that is, seeing is believing.

12) He's not being honest. (Para. 9)

"He is, for the present time, not saying something honest. He is lying.""Be" is used in progressive tenses to describe someone's behavior at a particular time in this sentence.

13) Some people start to say something while looking right at you, but three words into the sentence, they break eye contact and look out the window. (Para. 10)

Meaning: Some people look at you only when they begin to say something, but very soon they begin to look somewhere else.

14) I disagree. If I did agree, I certainly wouldn't look at my feet or at the ceiling. I'd keep my eye on the lion! (Para. 11)

Meaning: I don't agree that entering a room full of people is like going into a lion's cage. Suppose I agreed with such a thought, I would not look at my feet or at the ceiling but look carefully at the lion to make sure it would not kill me because the lion was most dangerous.

15) Then the chairman threw back his head and roared with laughter. (Para. 13)

Meaning: Then the chairman suddenly moved his head back and laughed in a very loud, deep way.

16) Humor broke the stress of a very uncomfortable scene. (Para. 13)

Meaning: Humor ended the stress of a very uncomfortable situation.

17) Take a good hard look at yourself. (Para. 15)

Meaning: Use enough time and energy to think about yourself thoroughly.

18) You already have within you the power to make a good impression, because nobody can be you as well as you can. (Para. 15)

Meaning: You now have the ability that exists in yourself to produce a good effect on other people, because nobody can use your good qualities as well as you can.

3. Text structure analysis

In Passage A, the writer presents the reader his ideas about "How to Make a Good Impression" with a general statement that is supported by a list of examples. This is one of the most common ways to support an idea or an opinion, very effectively, especially for a short paragraph. 

The key point for this kind of structure is:     1) You have to list examples. It is not necessary to go into detail about the examples.    2) All the examples you gave must be supporting your point or idea. 

How to make a good impression topic

1. You are the message. （你就是名片 idea

examples that

supporting the idea. 例子 a, b…

2. Be yourself. （保持自我） idea

examples 例子

3. Use your eyes. （善用你的眼睛） idea

examples 例子

4. Lighten up.( 放松 ) 写段落： idea +

examples

Post-reading activities

1. Key to exercises

2. A test of EQ

1. Key to exercises

II. 1. We show our true feelings through unspoken communication, that is, through our eyes, faces, bodies and attitudes.

2. The qualities we use include: physical appearance, energy, rate of speech, pitch and tone of voice, gesture, expression through the eyes, and the ability to hold the interest of other people.

3. These books do not tell us that the trick of making a good impression is that we should consistently be ourselves a our best.

4. We should never change the way we act from one situation to another, whether we are having a conversation, or addressing a garden club, or being interviewed for a job.

5. He means that what they say does not match the way they look or what they do.

6. The author believes that, if you agreed these are similar, you would keep our eyes on the lion, and would not look at your feet or at the ceiling.

7. Look at those in the room and smile.

8. He believes that it is we who can be ourselves at our best, not anyone else.

III. 1. conscious 2. depressed 3. ranges 4. impressed 5. encounter

6. introduction 7. match 8. physical 9. relaxed 10.contact

IV. 1. are committed to 2. takes…seriously 3. was absorbed in 4. focus on 5. made up his mind

6. driving me crazy 7. range from …to 8. at her best 9. Lighten up 10.kept her eyes on

V.1.C 2.M 3.F 4.I 5. E 6.B 7. H 8.J 9.A 10.K

VI. 1. It rained for two weeks on end completely

flooding the village. 2. Not wanting to meet John at the party, she

refused to attend it. 3. The bus arrived one hour late, causing me

to miss the beginning of the game. 4. The marine sat thee in the dimly lit ward,

holding the old man’s hand and offeringwords of hope and strength. 5. Realizing he was too sick to tell whether

or not I was his son, I guessed he reallyneeded me.

VII.

1. I was so excited about going away (that ) I couldn't sleep.

2. The chairman became so angry with his secretary (that) he decided to fire him.

3. She speaks English so well (that)you would think it was her native language.

4. He was so frightened (that) he broke eye contact and looked out the window.

5. His presentation was so interesting (that) everyone listened very carefully.

TranslationVII. 1. she was so absorbed in

reading the book that she was not conscious of someone

coming in.

2. He was late for almost an hour for the first meeting, leaving a bad impression on everyone.

3. Consciously or unconsciously, we make up our minds about people through their eyes, faces, bodies, and attitudes.

4. Professor Zhou was committed to the cause of language teaching all his life.

5. Many how-to books advise you that if you want to make a good impression, the trick is to be consistently you, at your best.

6. The media sometimes sends mixed messages, but most people believe what they see over what they hear.

IX.1. 史密斯教授关于形体语言的讲座

非常重要，所有的学生都认真地对待这次讲座。

2. 董事长意识到这不是好的过错，对好笑了笑来缓和气氛。

3. 她大怒，把我的杯子摔在地上，摔得粉碎。

4. 观察他的形体语言，你可以判断出他是在跟你说实话还是仅仅找个借口敷衍你。

5. 不管人们对你说些什么，记住“观其行胜于闻其言”。

6. 肢体动作是表达感情的无意识形式，能向观众传递某种信息。

ClozeX.1.C 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.C

6.B 7.C 8.A 9.C 10.C

11.B 12.B 13.A 14.C 15.A

16.B 17.C 18.A 19.A 20.B

XII.Body language is important in

many cases: trying to win an election, addressing a family

party, talking business at a conference, or giving a seminar at school.

2) You've taken a group of 4-year-olds to the park, and one of them starts crying because the others won't play with her. What do you do?a. Stay out of it -- let the kids deal with it on their own. b. Talk to her and help her figure out ways to get the other kids to play with her.c. Tell her in a kind voice not to cry. d. Try to distract the crying girl by showing her some other things she could play with.

3) Assume you're a college student who had hoped to get an A in a course, but you have just found out you got a C- on the midterm. What do you do?a. Sketch out a specific plan for ways to improve your grade and resolve to follow through on your plans. b. Resolve to do better in the future. c. Tell yourself it really doesn't matter much how you do in the course, and concentrate instead on other classes where your grades are higher.

d. Go to see the professor and try to talk her into giving you a better grade.

4) Imagine you're an insurance salesman calling prospective clients. Fifteen people in a row have hung up on you, and you're getting discouraged. What do you do?a. Call it a day and hope you have better luck tomorrow. b. Assess qualities in yourself that may be undermining your ability to make a sale. c. Try something new in the next call, and keep plugging away. d. Consider another line of work.

5) You're a manager in an organization that is trying to encourage respect for racial and ethnic diversity. You overhear someone telling a racist joke. What do you do?a. Ignore it -- it's only a joke. b. Call the person into your office for a reprimand.

c. Speak up on the spot, saying that such jokes are inappropriate and will not be tolerated in your organization. d. Suggest to the person telling the joke he go through a diversity training program.

6) You're trying to calm down a friend who has worked himself up into a fury at a driver in another car who has cut dangerously close in front of him. What do you do?a. Tell him to forget it -- he's okay now and it's no big deal. b. Put on one of his favorite tapes and try to distract him. c. Join him in putting down the other driver, as a show of rapport. d. Tell him about a time something like this happened to you and how you felt as mad as he does now, but then you saw the other driver was on the way to a hospital emergency room.

7) You and your life partner have gotten into an argument that has escalated into a shouting match; you're both upset and, in the heat of anger, making personal attacks you don't really mean. What's the best thing to do?a. Take a 20-minute break and then continue the discussion. b. Just stop the argument -- go silent, no matter what your partner says. c. Say you're sorry and ask your partner to apologize, too. d. Stop for a moment, collect your thoughts, then state your side of the case as precisely as you can.

8) You've been assigned to head a working team that is trying to come up with a creative solution to a nagging problem at work. What's the first thing you do?a. Draw up an agenda and allot time for discussion of each item so you make best use of your time together. b. Have people take the time to get to know each other better. c. Begin by asking each person for ideas about how to solve the problem, while the ideas are fresh. d. Start out with a brainstorming session, encouraging everyone to say whatever comes to mind, no matter how wild.

9) Your 3-year-old son is extremely timid, and has been hypersensitive about -- and a bit fearful of -- new places and people virtually since he was born. What do you do?a. Accept that he has a shy temperament and think of ways to shelter him from situations that would upset him. b. Take him to a child psychiatrist for help. c. Purposely expose him to lots of new people and places so he can get over his fear. d. Engineer an ongoing series of challenging but manageable experiences that will teach him he can handle new people and places.

10) For years you've been wanting to get back to learning to play a musical instrument you tried in childhood, and now, just for fun, you've finally gotten around to starting. You want to make the most effective use of your time. What do you do?a. Hold yourself to a strict practice time each day. b. Choose pieces that stretch your abilities a bit. c. Practice only when you're really in the mood. d. Pick pieces that are far beyond your ability, but that you can master with diligent effort.