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1、,Unit Six,Old Father Time Becomes A Terror,The Pace of Life,Father Time,In art, time is depicted as a old man holding a scythe or a sickle and an hourglass.,The sickle (and later, the scythe) became representative of the cruel and unrelenting flow of time which, in the end, cuts down all things.,Fat
2、her Time Has Become,Form groups of four. Present your three-day hour-by-hour log to your group members and discuss together to see,One Days Log:,Father Time Has Become,Thats just Monday!,- Dog fed - Lunches made - Kids to school - Me to work - Wife to work - Worky-work-work (a whole other time crunc
3、h there!) - Kids picked up - Kids taken to soccer/tae-kwon-do/baseball/sport-of-choice - Cooking the din-din - Eating said din-din - Homework reviewed - Oops, feed the dog again! - Bills paid - Calls returned ,There simply arent enough hours in the day to do what needs to be done.,time stressed,Fath
4、er Time Has Become,How Do You Feel About Father Time?,Time is money.,Time flies.,time starved,It seems theres either enough time or money, but never both at once.,A Terror,Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?,A stitch in time saves nine.,Make every moment count.,time famine,time squeeze
5、,many unfinished tasks no ability to manage time & priorities technology more desires the deadlines a waste of time on trivial matters more social activities ,What makes Father Time Become,A Terror?,Cultural Notes:,consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the
6、editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the companys London headquarters, where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends, Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen. Before bec
7、oming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil servant, and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in1978 to hitchhike around the world, and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local new
8、spaper as a trainee reporter. He joined the Financial Times as a sub-editor four years later.,Richard Tompkins,The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London. Its main rival as a daily financial newspaper is the New York Ci
9、ty-based Wall Street Journal. Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and his brother, the FT competed for many years with four other finance-oriented newspapers, finally in 1945 absorbing the last of these, the Financial News. The FT has specialised in reporting business and financial news while maintain
10、ing an independent editorial outlook. On occasion it has attacked the financial policies of the British government. Circulation of the FT is said to be one of the worlds highest among financial newspapers, second only to that of The Wall Street Journal. Printed as a broadsheet on distinctive light s
11、almon coloured paper, the FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets.,Cultural Notes:,3 reasons 2 aspects 3 reactions 1 remedy,Detailed Analysis of the Text:,This argumentative paper (议论文)argues that time becomes a terror for us, in rea
12、lity for working people. It analyzes three reasons why we feel time-pressed and our three reactions to time famine. It comes up with a remedy: We need fewer desires.,Text Structure:,Part I,Part II,Part III,Part IV,Paras 1-11,Paras 12-18,Paras 19-23,Paras 24-28,The author gives three reasons why we f
13、eel so time-pressed today.,Not every one is time-stressed, and in the case of Americans they have actually gained more free time in the past decade.,The perception of time-famine has triggered a variety of reactions.,The author pins down the crux of the problem and puts forward a remedy for the stre
14、ss we feel.,Three reasons why we feel so time-stressed today:,Text Structure:,technology information explosion rising prosperity,Scan Part I and find out three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today. And make a note of the transitional devices used there.,apart, a second reason (Para.7),There is
15、another reason (Para.11),The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent on washing and ironing.,Text Structure:,Scan Part I and find out the facts the author uses to support the first reason why we feel so time-pressed today.,Fact 1:,Fact 3:,Fact 2:,The motorcar brings
16、 more traffic problems than it promises to solve.,The aircrafts created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking.,technology,Fact 5:,Fact 4:,Text Structure:,Scan Part I and find out the facts the author uses to support the first reason why we feel so time-pressed today.,Fact 6:,Instead of making our life easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work into our leisure time.,Technology produ
