新视野大学英语第二版第二册unit_7

nullUnit 7 Relax or Die Unit 7 Relax or Die nullLook at these facial expressions. Tell the names of the feelings. anger fear sadness Words for Describing Your Negative Feelingsnullconfusion disappointment upset nullnullAct & GuessA student will act out the feeling of the word on the paper and other students guess the word. Only one hint can be given if necessary. You may say: “The word begins with letter…”Words ReviewWords Reviewoverwhelm, spin, react, tense, destructive, stir, outlet, blur, temper, stimulate, priority, deadline, exterior, interior have no control over sth, out of control, spin out of control, lack of control, stir in one’s own juice, blow one’s top, blow apart with sthnull1. The doctor recommends that those stressed people should try some new, interesting and challenging things in order to give their negative feelings an outlet.2. A teacher’s priorities include exciting students’ interests and stimulating their creativity. 3. If you often feel angry and overwhelmed, like the stress in your life is spinning out of control, then you may be hurting your heart. nullWatch & Discussaffect, tension, depression, symptom, suffer, result in/fromnull Stress comes in all forms and affects persons of all ages and from all walks of life. On the part of students, they suffer from depression triggered by exam pressures. Stress is a state of tension that results from one’s response to the demands and pressures caused by work, family and other external sources, as well as those that are internally generated from self-imposed demands, obligations and self-criticism. Stress is both additive and cumulative. It adds up over time until a state of crisis is reached and symptoms appear. It also shows such physical symptoms as muscle tension, headaches, low back pain, insomnia and high blood pressure. nullWatch & DiscussRearrange the following sentences to answer the question.null1. As shown in the video, hugging each other in the morning is just one way of keeping under control the stress in the workplace. 2. Therefore, how to cope with stress becomes our first concern. 3. Recent research shows that people today are more likely to experience stress and psychological distress than people in the past. 4. So good relations improve the working environment and lighten the stress. 5. The manager here focuses on keeping workers happy to relieve their psychological burden. 6. Finally nutrition, exercise and healthy lifestyle can be strong preventive measures to help one avoid the serious health consequences of stress. 7. Besides, holding an interesting and rewarding job enables one to cope with stress. null 3. Recent research shows that people today are more likely to experience stress and psychological distress than people in the past. 2. Therefore, how to cope with stress becomes our first concern. 1. As shown in the video, hugging each other in the morning is just one way of keeping under control the stress in the workplace. 5.The manager here focuses on keeping workers happy to relieve their psychological burden. 4. So good relations improve the working environment and lighten the stress. 7. Besides, holding an interesting and rewarding job enables one to cope with stress. 6. Finally nutrition, exercise and healthy lifestyle can be strong preventive measures to help one avoid the serious health consequences of stress. A TestA TestHow much stress are you experiencing in your life? Take the following test and find out. nullDo You FrequentlyWarming-upnullWarming-upnull1. Under 3 points: You’ve got your life in fairly good control. Work on the choices and habits that could still be causing you some unnecessary stress in your life.Your Scores2. 4~9 points: You are approaching the danger zone. You may well be suffering stress-related symptoms and your relationships could be strained. Think carefully about choices you’ve made and take relaxation.Warming-upnull3. 10~15 points: Emergency! You must stop now, rethink how you are living, change your attitudes, and pay careful attention to diet, exercise, and relaxation.Warming-upnull Jazz MusicA Poem— Think It OvernullNow we have more possessions, more fun and more excitement than we used to. But do we really enjoy happiness? Listen to the poem and think it over. Think It Over…Think It Over…Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; We spend more, but enjoy less; We have bigger houses, but smaller families; We have more compromises, but less time; We have more knowledge, but less judgment;nullWe have more medicines, but less health; We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values; We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much; We reached the Moon and came back, but we found it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;nullWe have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space; We have higher income, but less morals; These are times with more liberty, but less joy; We have much more food, but less nutrition; These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase; These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes; That’s why I propose, that as of today:nullYou do not keep anything for a special occasion because every day that you live is a special occasion; Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs; Spend more time with your family and friends, eat your favorite foods, visit the places you love;nullLife is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival; Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it. Remove your vocabulary phrases like “one of these days” or “someday”; Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”!nullLet’s tell our families and friends how much we love them; Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life; Every day, every hour, and every minute is special; And you don’t know if it will be your last.nullJAZZ by Louis ArmstrongJAZZ is a type of popular music which developed in the Southern states of America around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, principally in New Orleans and largely in the hands of black musicians. How to lighten your stress? Enjoying music may help.Task checkingTask checkingI. Make a Phone Call Home As you can see, everybody suffers from stress more or less. Your parents are no exception. Work with a partner and make a phone call home. Find out what they are suffering from and try to lighten their load. II. One of your classmates is suffering from some stress and complaining to you, how will you lighten his/her load?null1. Do you have stress at school? 2. How can we live a stress-free life? 3. What’s the most stressful experience you have ever had? null下一页上一页 How to Cope Effectively With the Stress in Lifenull下一页上一页 1) As far as my experience with the problem of the stress in life goes, the effective cure for it rests with the following major steps. 2) One step is to set my priorities. 3) Whenever I feel any undue stress is building up in my life, I tend to write down a list of things to accomplish, with the most pressing at the top; and meanwhile allow more time than I think I’ll need for each job, with enough breathingnull下一页上一页room to handle emergencies or rearrange priorities as circumstances change. 4) Another step is to know when to say no. 5) My experience has led me to recognize that if we are too busy doing too many chores or too obliging to others to say no to any of their requests, we may never get around to the important activities that give us genuine satisfaction. 6) And the most important step is to learn to ask for help. 7) In the past, I used to seek nullno aid because I regarded it as a lack of ability to reach out for help; but now I have come to realize that there are always some parts of our life over which we have little or no control and that, by both asking for and offering help, we can strengthen personal relationships and lighten each other’s load. 8) If you feel overwhelmed with the problem of stress, therefore, you might as well try the above and may be surprised to find the same holds true for you.上一页Compound DictationCompound DictationJob Stress B2-Unit-07\unit7files\job stress.MPG Some industries are notoriously anxiety ridden, such as stock brokering in today’s market, being a surgical resident in a high volume hospital and, of course, TV news. While some people thrive in a pressure cooker, many will either crash and burn or have a heart attack. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that people who have a lot of stress in their jobs are more likely to develop cardiac problems.nullIn fact, a recent study of workers in Finland illustrates Dr. Raison’s point. They followed more than 800 workers since 1973 and found that workers under high pressure with little contact over their jobs and poor rewards for their efforts were twice as likely to die from cardiovascular disease. There’s good evidence that it’s a big contributor, job stress, to musculoskeletal problems, carpal tunnel body, headaches, a lot of non-specific medical symptoms. There’s good evidence that people that are under job stress are more likely to develop hypertension. And then there’s a lot of interesting findings showing that the immune system is also affected by job stress. nullThe physical harm caused by job stress. Especially heart disease, is so well acknowledged that in New York and several other states it is considered a work related injury. The emotional harm can also be severe. Major depression is about 10 times more common now than it was, say, 50 years ago, and rates of self-reported happiness in the United States have also, have dropped. And it’s interesting that this correlates with a time period in our history where there’s been a huge increase in the number of hours worked per week by the average American, such that now, in the last five or 10 years. We have surpassed even Japan and are now the world’s leader in terms of number of hours worked per week. null Government researchers list three situations that cause the most job stress—unrealistic deadlines, low levels of support from supervisors, lack of worker involvement in decision-making. They claim the best work environments benefit both employees and the company’s bottom line.