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Book Four

Unit EightUnit Eight

Text A

Losing an Accent to Achieve Success

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Pre-reading Activities

Expressions & Patterns

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I. Pre-reading Activities: Listen, Look & Say

Watch & Discuss

Watch the video and discuss the given topics..

Compound Dictation

Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks

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Compound Dictation

Directions:You will hear a passage. It will be read twice. Listen carefully and supply the missing words.

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If you want to know what Americans do when they are not working, well, the _____ adult spends almost two hours a day on ______ activities like______, cleaning and paying_____. How do we know? The Department of Labor has just ______a study of how Americans use their time. The study ________something that many people already knew. Women spend more time on _______ and house-work than men do, even when the women are_______. Men, however, spend more time at work. Men also spend more time on ______ activities and ____.

household

released

confirmed

child care

leisure

bills

employed

average

sports

cooking

it could cost him his career.

Paraphrase:he would probably lose his job and ruin his career.

cost: to cause the loss of 使失去

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That one mistake almost cost him his life.那个错误几乎让他失去了生命。

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Despite mixed feelings, he hired a speech coach to help him out.Paraphrase:Though he felt uncertain about what to do, he hired a speech coach to help him get rid of his accent.

help out: help sb esp in a difficult situation or a crisis 帮助某人（尤指摆脱困境或危难）

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He's always willing to help (us) out when we're short of staff. 我们职员人手不足时 , 他总是急人之难 .

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Young, first-generation foreign professionals in America hoping to improve their careers appear to make up the majority of those paying to get rid of

their accents.

Paraphrase:Among those people who paid to get rid of their accents, most were young, first-generation foreign professionals in America who hoped to have better prospects in their careers.

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make up: 1.constitute; form: 构成；组成

2. invent a story 杜撰

phrase

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One hundred years make up a century.

一百年构成一个世纪。

He made up some excuse about his daughter’s being sick.

他编造借口，说他女儿生病了。

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make out: write out写；填写 manage to see sb./sth 辨认出make up for : do sth. that corrects a bad situation 弥补make it: succeed成功

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Edwin said he was embarrassed and tried to ignore incidents throughout his career when colleagues would point out his accent and do imitations of his pronunciations for fun.

Paraphrase:Edwin said his colleagues often pointed out his accent and imitated his pronunciation just for fun. And he felt ashamed and tried to pay little attention to these

unpleasant things.

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Edwin's experiences early in his career made him very sensitive to the problems

be sensitive to: be easily affected敏感的

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A writer mustn't be too sensitive to criticism. 作家不可对批评意见反应过激 .

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none of that seemed to matter to them because they didn't have patience.

Paraphrase:But neither my passion for work nor my ability seemed important to them because they weren't patient enough to listen to me, one who spoke English

with an accent.

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matter ： ~ (to sb) (used esp in negative sentences and questions; in sentences containing what, who, where, if, etc, usu with it as the subject) be important 关系重大 ; 要紧 :

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What does it matter (whether he comes or goes)? （他来也好去也好 , ）那有什么关系 ? Some things matter more than others. 有些事情更重要 . Does it matter if we're a bit late? 我们晚到一会儿有关系吗 ? It doesn't matter to me what you do. 你做什麽我都无所谓 .

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Seeing himself allowed him to have a visual image to go along with the sounds he was making.

Paraphrase:

Seeing himself in the mirror enabled him to see how the mouth, lips, and the tongue moved while pronouncing the sounds.

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His boss, Layton, called it a "win-win" situation, and is so enthusiastic that he is sponsoring a second employee in the program.

a “win-win” situation： both Edwin and his company benefited from this situation 双赢的局面

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