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Unit 8

Teaching Objectives:

1. To learn how to live and how to plan our life; 2. To learn how to beat retirement blues;

3. To know about the memorial methods to help students remember words; 4. To deal with the language points in Text A and Text B. 5. To remember and use new words and expressions;

Focuses:

1. To learn how to live and how to plan our life; 2. To learn how to beat retirement blues;

3. To know about the memorial methods to help students remember words;

Difficulties:

How to help students remember words by knowing about the memorial methods.

Teaching Time: 2 periods. Teaching Procedures:

Part I Pre-reading Questions

It can be used as lead-in questions. For students, they can discuss with each other and will have free answers. Part II Extensive Reading

In this part, there are two texts and their relevant exercises. By reading the texts in limited time, Teacher

helps students understand the contents and the reading methods to build reading abilities gradually.

Text A How Long Will You Live？

a. Let the students read Text A as quickly as they can for the first time to get the general idea; b. Ask students to tell others the general idea of the text;

c. Then use some basic reading skills to read through the text again to find the answers to Exercises I; d. Check the answers to Exercises I; e. Analyze the language points in the text:

1. 1-year-olds: 一岁的小孩。合成词变成复数，如果该合成词有主干词，则在主干词后面加-s：brother-in-law→brothers-in-law, looker-on→lookers-on; 如果该合成词没有主干词，则在最后一个词的词尾加-s：grow-up→grow-ups, forget-me-not→forget-me-nots; 若合成词中有man或woman的话，复数形式则要求其构成部分也要作相应变化：a woman doctor→women doctors, a man cook→men cooks。

2. hypothetical [or synthetic] cohort：假定或综合队列，实验样本的一种方式。cohort：在人口统计学、统计学或市场调查中定义的一代人。如：The cohort of people aged 30 to 39 are more conservative. 年龄在30岁到39岁的一群人更加保守。

3. If your retirement plan assumes you’ll live to 81, you probably won’t hit it right on the button. 如果你的养老金计划假设你将活到81岁，你可能计算得并不准确。

4. By the way, while the odds are heavily against his reaching 95, if he should happen to make it, he then faces a 22% chance of getting to 100. 顺便说说，虽然他活到95岁的可能性很小，但是如果他能的话，那么他就有22%的机会活到100岁。

5. Trouble is, the science behind them can be squishy. 麻烦在于这些做法的科学基础可能是脆弱的。 behind: 作为……的基础、支持。如：Behind your every action is self-interest. 你的每一个行动都是出于个人私利。

f. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Text B Plan Ahead to Beat Retirement Blues

a. Several minutes for students to use some basic reading skills to read the text only once, then ask them to do Exercise I;

b. Check the answers to Exercise I; c. Point out some language points:

1. retirement blues: 退休引起的忧郁。 blues: 常作the blues，非正式用法，表示“忧郁”、“悲伤”等。如: She’s got the blues. 她变得忧郁了。

2. With no plan for organizing their time and no ability to develop a new ways of identity, they often sink

into depression. 他们没有组织时间的计划，也没有能力去开发一个新的自我，于是就沉溺于抑郁的情绪中。

3. It’s often necessary to renegotiate your relationship and invent new ways of being together. 重新商定

你们的关系并创造新的相处方式常常是很有必要的。

4. For people with spiritual inclinations, this is a time to nurture and reflect on that aspect of their

personality. 对那些带着精神倾向的人来说，发展和思考他们个性的这个方面正是时候。

5. As we finish our careers, we tend to move into areas that reaffirm and reintegrate early impulses. 当职

业生涯结束时，我们常回过头去重新确认最初的动力，并使之更加完整。

d. Assign Exercises II and III as their homework.

Part III Reading Skills

Before dealing with Text A and Text B, ask students to read through the whole passage of reading skill, to

lead them to understand the details about memory methods, especially asking them to pay special attention to the examples.

Part IV Supplementary Reading: Over 60 and Overlooked

Ask students to read it in a limited time after class, and then write a summary. Part V Test Yourself

Ask students to do it and check the answers by themselves. Questions for Discussion and Reflection:

1. How will you plan your retirement life? Why？

2. What should you do to take care of the aged in your family?

Assignments

1. Write a short summary of about 50 words to express the main idea of Supplementary Reading; 2. Finish all exercises in this unit.

References:

《商务英语阅读教程Ⅰ教师用书》《牛津英汉双解词典》