文档介绍：Unit 12
Time to Take It Easy
Teaching Objectives
1. To get students know the importance of leisure.
2. To understand the purpose of writing anization of the text.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
Think Over
1. How do you think of the pace of the life today and the past?
2. How do the Chinese people value work and life?
How do you understand happiness in life?
How do you understand “work ethic”?
I. About the text
1. What is this essay concerned with?
2. How is the anized?
II. Structural Analysis
In this part by presenting the two contrasting pictures of what continental Europeans and Americans do in summer, the author introduces the theme—how to view the work-leisure issue.
In this part it tells the readers that the difference largely lies in people’s different attitudes to work.
In the third and fourth parts it elaborate on the two different attitudes.
In the final part Professor Gini explains the true meaning of “being lazy”—it simply means “to take it easy” as suggested by the title of the essay.
III. Some difficult words, phrases and sentences
1. …my future is shorter than my past…I’ve got to take time now because, like it or not, time will be taken away from me.
Explain: I’ve already spent most of my life in this world… I’ve got to take time because my time will soon run out no matter whether I like it or not.
2. As well as publishing guides on how to do nothing creatively, these work anize events like “national phone in sick day”…
Explain: Besides offering suggestions in their magazines on how to spend one’s free time in a creative way, these “anti-work” anize event like “national phone in sick day”…
3. Shut down
The workshop has shut down and the workers are unemployed.
We shut up the house before going on holiday.
You must shut the gas supply off if there’s a leak.
His deafness shuts him off from the lives of others.
4. Meet one’s needs
Market economy meets the basic needs of t