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21st Century College English Book III
Unit 4 Part A
College Pressures
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Unit 4 Part A

• Pre-Reading Activities
• Text A Language Points
• Exercises
• Assignment

College Pressure
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Pre-reading Activities
1. As you listen to the passage, fill in as much
information as you can about Annettes plans.
work on history paper at the library
Friday evening During the coming month Next
term In the fall Next spring
finish history paper, prepare for economics test,
finish reading assignments for government class
and start next terms readings
concentrate on sociology and management
??? unspecified in the passage
have a nervous breakdown
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Pre-reading Activities
Answer the Question
2. How did you feel while you were listening to
Annette? What was it like trying to keep up with
her? How do students like Annette make you feel?
Script
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Pre-reading Activities
Brad Hi Annette! Some of us are going to see
that new play on Friday, and then out for a pizza
afterwards. Do you feel like going? Annette Id
love to, Brad, but I have to finish this paper
for history class. I planned to spend Friday
evening at the library. Brad Annette, that paper
isnt due for a month! Annette talking faster
and faster, sounding more and more mindless But
theres test in economics that same week. I have
to get the history paper out of the way so I can
start preparing for that. Plus I have to finish
the reading assignments for government class for
this term so I can start on the readings for next
term. That way I can concentrate on sociology and
management next term and hopefully get far enough
ahead so that in the fall I wont have to
Brad interrupting Whoa, slow down, Annette!
Youre just wearing yourself out! Youre going to
have a nervous breakdown! Annette still sounding
mindless Oh, thats okay Ive scheduled in
time for a nervous breakdown during the spring
term next year.
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Language Points
Text A
College Pressures
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Language Points
College Pressures By William Zinsser 1 I am
master of Branford College at Yale. I live on the
campus and know the students well. (We have 485
of them.) I listen to their hopes and fears and
also to their stereo music and their piercing
cries in the dead of night (Does anybody
care?). They come to me to ask how to get
through the rest of their lives.
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Language Points
2 Mainly I try to remind them that the road ahead
is a long one and that it will have more
unexpected turns than they think. There will be
plenty of time to change jobs, change careers,
change whole attitudes and approaches. They dont
want to hear such news. They want a map right
now that they can follow directly to career
security, financial security, social security
and, presumably, a prepaid grave.
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Language Points
3 What I wish for all students is some release
from the grim grip of the future. I wish them a
chance to enjoy each segment of their education
as an experience in itself and not as a tiresome
requirement in preparation for the next step. I
wish them the right to experiment, to trip and
fall, to learn that defeat is as educational as
victory and is not the end of the world.
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Language Points
4 My wish, of course, is naive. One of the few
rights that America does not proclaim is the
right to fail. Achievement is the national god,
worshipped in our media the million-dollar
athlete, the wealthy executive and glorified in
our praise of possessions. In the presence of
such a potent state religion, the young are
growing up old.
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Language Points
5 I see four kinds of pressure working on college
students today economic pressure, parental
pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced
pressure. Its easy to look around for bad guys
to blame the colleges for charging too much
money, the professors for assigning too much
work, the parents for pushing their children too
far, the students for driving themselves too
hard. But there are no bad guys, only victims.
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Language Points
6 Today it is not unusual for a student, even
one who works part time at college and full time
during the summer, to have accumulated 5,000 in
loans after four years loans that the student
must start to repay within one year after
graduation (and incidentally, not all these loans
are low-interest, as many non-students believe).
Encouraged at the commencement ceremony to go
forth into the world, students are already behind
as they go forth. How can they
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Language Points
not feel under pressure throughout college to
prepare for this day of reckoning? Women at Yale
are under even more pressure than men to justify
their expensive education to themselves, their
parents, and society. For although they leave
college superbly equipped to bring fresh
leadership to traditionally male jobs, society
hasnt yet caught up with this fact.
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Language Points
7 Along with economic pressure goes parental
pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply
intertwined. I see students taking premedical
courses with joyless determination. They go off
to their labs as if they were going to the
dentist. It saddens me because I know them in
other corners of their life as cheerful people.
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Language Points
8 Do you want to go to medical school? I ask
them. 9 I guess so, they say, without
conviction, or, Not really. 10 Then why are
you going? 11 My parents want me to be a
doctor. Theyre paying all this money and
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Language Points
12 Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are
also intertwined, and they begin from the very
start of freshman year. I had a freshman student
Ill call Linda,one instructor told me, who
came in and said she was under terrible pressure
because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter
and studied all the time. I couldnt tell her
that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say
the same thing about Linda.
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Language Points
13 The story is almost funny except that its
not. Its a symptom of all the pressures put
together. When every student thinks every other
student is working harder and doing better, the
only solution is to study harder still. I see
students going off to the library every night
after dinner and coming back when it closes at
midnight. I wish they could sometimes forget
about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the
rattling of typewriters in the hours before dawn.
I see the tension in their eyes when exams are
approaching and papers are due Will I get
everything done?
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Language Points
14 Probably they wont. They will get sick. They
will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug
out. 15 Ive painted too grim a portrait of
todays students, making them seem too solemn.
Thats only half of their story the other half
is that these students are nice people, and easy
to like. Theyre quick to laugh and to offer
friendship. Theyre more considerate of one
another than any student generation Ive ever
known. If Ive described
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Language Points
them primarily as driven creatures who largely
ignore the joyful side of life, its because
thats where the problem is not only at Yale
but throughout American education. Its why I
think we should all be worried about the values
that are nurturing a generation so fearful of
risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.
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Language Points
16 I tell students that there is no one right
way to get ahead that each of them is a
different person, starting from a different point
and bound for a different destination. I tell
them that change is healthy and that people dont
have to fit into pre-arranged slots. One of my
ways of telling them is to invite men and women
who have achieved success outside the academic
world to come and talk informally with my
students during the year. I invite heads of
companies, editors of magazines,
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Language Points
politicians, Broadway producers, artists,
writers, economists, photographers, scientists,
historians a mixed bag of achievers. 17 I ask
them to say a few words about how they got
started. The students always assume that they
started in their present profession and knew all
along that it was what they wanted to do. But in
fact, most of them got where they are by a
circuitous route, after many side
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Language Points
trips. The students are startled. They can hardly
conceive of a career that was not preplanned.
They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God
or chance to lead them down some unforeseen
trail.
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get through manage to live through (a period of
time during which something unpleasant is
happening)
e.g. How do they ever get through Siberian
winters?
Translate ???????????????
Key They helped me to get through those
miserable days.
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in itself in its own nature intrinsically
Translate ??????????,?????????????
e.g. 1) The design was not in itself bad. 2) The
plan wasnt illegal in itself, but it would lead
to some doubtful practices.
Key The problem is unimportant in itself but its
long term effects could be very serious.
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trip vi. ( over/up) knock ones foot against
something when walking and lose balance so that
one falls or nearly falls
e.g. 1) She tripped over a stone. 2) He tripped
and fell, tearing a hole in his trousers.
Translate ????????
Key She tripped over the cat and fell.
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day of reckoning time when a person pays or
when he is punished for things that he has done
wrong
Translate ???????,????????
Cf. reckon and calculate Both reckon and
calculate mean determine something
mathematically, but reckon usually connotes
simpler mathematical process, especially such as
can be carried on in ones head or aided by the
use of a counting device, while calculate is
usually preferred when highly advanced, complex
processes are followed with precision and care
and when the result arrived at is not readily
proven by measuring.

• e.g.
• We tried to put off the day of reckoning.
• The day of reckoning has come for him.

Key Youre enjoying yourself now, but a day of
reckoning will come.
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catch up with reach (and sometimes overtake)
(sb. Who is ahead) (in competition, trade,
standard, etc.) become equal to

• e.g.
• Will Western industry ever catch up with Japanese
  innovations?
• They havent caught up yet with the latest styles.

Translate ?????????,?????(????)?
Key After missing a term through illness he had
to work hard to catch up (with the others).
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go along with be found together with
Translate ????,????????????
e.g. 1) Failing health often goes along with old
age. 2) Increased unemployment has gone along
with rising prices all over the world.
Paraphrase Along with economic pressure goes
parental pressure.
Key It is proved that success always goes with
diligence.
Parental pressure takes place together with
economic pressure.
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except that (used to introduce a statement
which states or implies something contrary to
the preceding one) only that, but that
e.g. 1) It couldnt have happened except that it
did. 2) She would have protested except that she
was afraid.
Translate ? (??)??????,???????????
Paraphrase The story is almost funny except
that its not.
Key She remembered nothing (about him) except
that his hair was black.
The story (about Linda and Barbara thinking that
each is working harder and doing better than the
other) sounds somewhat funny, but in fact its
not funny.
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thats only half of their story Thats only
part of the situation with the students.

• e.g.
• What he told us yesterday is only half the story
  there are more people concerned in this affair
  than he knows about.
• 2) These figures gave only part of the story.

If you say something is only half of the story,
or part of the story or not the whole story you
mean that there are more details that need to be
known in order to understand the situation.
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obsess vt. fill the mind of (sb.) continually
and make thinking about anything else difficult
Paraphrase the values that are nurturing a
generation so fearful of risk and so
goal-obsessed at an early age

• e.g.
• The fear of death obsessed her throughout her old
  age.
• She was obsessed with the idea that she was going
  to die.

Translate ??????????????
Key She was obsessed with the idea that she was
being watched.
the social principles that are bringing up a
generation so afraid of taking risks and so
excessively concerned about their future career
when so young
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a mixed bag a thoroughly varied mixture (of
people or things)

• e.g.
• Jane invited a mixed bag of people to her party.
• The songs on this record are (quite) a mixed bag.

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get started begin

• e.g.
• When can we get started?
• Its time we got started on the washing up.

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Text-related information
Brandford College at Yale Brandford College is
one of the oldest of Yale universitys twelve
residential colleges. It opened its doors in the
start of the academic year in 1933.
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Text-related information
Social Security Social security generally refers
to all measures established by legislation to
maintain individual to family income at certain
levels, to assure income if employment is lost,
and to provide a great number of benefits covered
by other programs. These benefits may include
maternity payments, cash for medical needs, legal
aid, compensation for crop failure, and funeral
expenses.
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Text-related information
Broadway Broadway is one of the principal
business thoroughfares of New York City,
extending in a generally north-south direction.
Laid out in the early 17th century by the Dutch,
Broadway grew in length as the city developed
from a small settlement on the southern tip of
Manhattan Island. It now extends 27 km (17 mi) to
the citys northern boundary in the Bronx.
Broadway forms the central thoroughfare of
More to learn
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Text-related information
New York Citys theater district. This stretch is
one of the most highly concentrated entertainment
centers in the United Stats, and includes
official Broadway theaters, smaller off-Broadway
playhouses, movie theaters, restaurants, and
bars. Also located on Broadway are Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts and Columbia University
(1754).
More to learn
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Text-related information
Women enter the Broadway Theater in Denver,
Colorado. One woman wears a short fur coat, hat
and evening dress. The Broadway Theater opened in
1890 on 18th and Broadway Avenues. It was
demolished in 1955.
More to learn
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Text-related information
A book Broadway Theatres, an introduction of
the history of Broadway.
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Comprehension
change jobs, change careers, change whole
attitudes and approaches
Do you know the difference between change
jobs and change careers?
Paraphrase take another job, begin a new career,
adopt an entirely different attitude and approach
Someones career is the series of jobs that they
have in their life, esp. in the same area of
work. So, if a teacher quits teaching in one
school and starts teaching in another, he changes
his jobs, but if he quits teaching at all and
starts running a business, he changes his career.
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Comprehension
Achievement is the national god, worshipped in
our media and glorified in our praise of
possessions.
Success is greatly admired by the whole country,
highly respected in newspapers, on radio and
television and strongly praised in our approval
of wealth.
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Comprehension
to justify their expensive education to
to prove to that it is right for them to
receive such an expensive education to show to
that they can perform as well as or even better
than men for the expensive education theyve
received
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Comprehension
as if they were going to the dentist
as if they were going to suffer
Having ones teeth treated often causes a lot of
pain, and going to the dentist is never a
pleasant experience. So students who study
medicine under parental pressure feel as if they
were going to the dentist when they have to go to
their labs.
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Comprehension
when papers are due
when it is time to hand in papers
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Comprehension
easy to like
easy to be liked
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Comprehension
they knew all along that it was what they
wanted to do
they knew from the very beginning that it
(their present profession) was the profession
they wanted to follow
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self-induced caused or brought about by
oneself
self-imposed
decided by yourself
allowing yourself to have or do anything that you
enjoy
self-indulgent
self-inflicted
(of something bad) done to yourself
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go force (into) set out
Could you make a sentence by yourself?
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be bound for intending to go to going to
e.g. These two young musicians are bound for
international success.
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conceive of think of
e.g. He couldnt conceive of a time when he would
have no job. I find it hard to conceive of such
cruelty.
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Exercises

• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Listening

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Comprehension
???? III Ex. II, p. 106
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Comprehension
1. Who is the author? Why does he begin the text
by explaining who he is?
Key He is master of Brandford College at Yale
University. He introduces himself to let us know
that hes an expert on the subject of students,
how they live, what they think about,
etc. Relevant to Para. 1
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Comprehension
2. Why dont students like the authors vision
of their future?
Key They feel a need for certainty and security,
and he predicts many unexpected changes. Relevant
to Para. 2
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Comprehension
3. In the authors opinion, what attitude should
students have toward their education?
Key He wishes they saw it as an end in itself,
not as preparation for a next step. Relevant to
Para. 3
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Comprehension
4. What does the author mean by such a potent
state religion(Para. 4)? What does he mean by
the young are growing up old?
Key The potent state religion is the pressure
to achieve material success. He apparently feels
its unnatural for young people to feel this
pressure so strongly, or to take such an interest
in material success. Relevant to Para. 4
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Comprehension
5. What kinds of pressure does the author see
affecting students?
Key Economic pressure, parental pressure, peer
pressure and self-induced pressure. Relevant to
Para. 5
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Comprehension
6. Why is economic pressure inevitably
intertwined with parental pressure?
Key Because parents are almost always supporting
students financially, at least in part and
anyway they all expect their kids to make
something of themselves. Relevant to Para. 7-11
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Comprehension
7. Why are peer pressure and self-induced
pressure also intertwined?
Key Because students compare themselves with one
another. Relevant to Para. 13
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Comprehension
8. What does the author see as the effect of all
the different kinds of pressure?
Key He sees the students worrying themselves
sick over the perceived competition, not taking
enough time to relax, having nervous breakdowns
and generally not enjoying their studies in the
way he wishes they would. Relevant to Para. 14
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Comprehension
9. Does the author consider the problems he
describes typical of every generation of
students, or only of this particular generation?
Key He apparently feels that this particular
generation is particularly afflicted with the
problems he describes. Relevant to Para. 15
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Comprehension
10. What does he hope the students will learn
from the mixed bag of achievers that he invites
to talk with his students?
Key He hopes theyll learn that change is
healthy and that people dont have to fit into
pre-arranged slots. Relevant to Para. 17
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Vocabulary

• Vocabulary
• Ex. III
• Ex. IV
• Ex. V
• Vocabulary Power Games
• Ex. VII

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Vocabulary
???? III Ex. III, p. 106
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
1. When every student imagines that every other
student is working harder and doing better,
stress is the _____ result.
? inevitable
2. It is my firm _____ that violence is never a
reasonable solution to conflict.
? conviction
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
3. Everyone jumped up when a _____ scream
suddenly broke the silence.
? piercing
4. In many cultures a memorial service is a
joyful celebration, not a _____ event.
? solemn
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
5. The recession has put increasing pressure on
the job market, so employment prospects for this
years graduates are unfortunately rather _____.
? grim
6. If you keep too firm a _____ on your children,
theyll never learn to think for themselves.
? grip
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
7. I dont know what _____ Alfred to read your
letter. _____ he thought it was addressed to him.
? induced, Presumably
8. What are you thinking of!? This medicine is
much too _____ for a small child!
? potent
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
9. A large _____ of the population ______ at
about 20 still takes spirit-worship (????)
seriously.
? segment, reckoned
10. Before going on a camping trip, its wise to
make sure youre well _____ for a wide range of
emergencies.
? equipped
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
11. As soon as the director left the room, Sam
_____ to entertain us with his wild stories.
? commenced
12. I talked to Alice last week _____, has she
returned the book you lent her? Id like to
borrow it, if you dont mind.
? incidentally
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Vocabulary
???? III Ex. IV, p. 107
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Vocabulary
IV. Rescue these sentences! Our underachieving
student tried to use an expression from the text
in each of the following sentences, but he got
all the prepositions or adverbs mixed up and
this time hes made other mistakes as well.
Correct all the sentences, using expressions from
the text, then put definitions or synonyms of the
corrected expressions in the spaces provided.
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Vocabulary

• The professor is often seen strolling around the
  campus at deep night.
• correct form
• definition

in the dead of night
very late at night
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Vocabulary
2. In a crowded dormitory its especially
important to considerate for other peoples
needs and feelings. correct form definition
be considerate of
care about
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Vocabulary
3. The end of the movie didnt surprise me I
knew all away who the murderer was. correct
form synonym
all along
from the start
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Vocabulary
4. After her husbands death, fearsome for what
the future would bring, Barbara closed the family
business and went to work in a bank. correct
form synonym
fearful of
anxious about
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Vocabulary
5. Please excuse my irritability. Ive been
around too many pressures at work lately.
correct form definition
under too much pressure
stressed by too many worries
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Vocabulary
6. None of Lucys usual methods for attracting
attention were work for the professor. correct
form synonym
worked on
affected, influenced
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Vocabulary
7. Its hard conceiving in a culture where smell
or touch are more important than sight. correct
form synonym
to conceive of
to imagine
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Vocabulary
8. If he doesnt find some time to relax a
little, Im afraid hes going to bug it
up. correct form synonym
bug out
go crazy
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Vocabulary
???? III Ex. V, p. 108
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Vocabulary
V. Use the words or phrase in the box and your
imagination! to briefly complete the thoughts
below. You dont have to use all the words, and
your answers can be more than one sentence, but
make sure you include at least one of the words
in each sentence you write.
get through a mixed bag go forth in
itself campus ceremony cheerful circuit
dentist grave presume preparation
slot trail typewriter wealthy
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Vocabulary
get through a mixed bag go forth in
itself campus ceremony cheerful circuit
dentist grave presume preparation
slot trail typewriter wealthy

• The biggest difference between todays university
  students and those ten or twenty years ago is
• Before I started my studies, I didnt expect that
  being a student would mean
• If I were the Minister of Education, Id

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Vocabulary
Now, please share your imagination with your
partner. And after it, we are eager to enjoy your
splendid mind sparks if you think it is really
unusual!
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Vocabulary Power Games
???? III Ex. VII, p. 109
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Vocabulary Power Games
VII. The vocabulary power games all focus on
syllabus words some new, some familiar. Weve
divided them into Band 4 and Band 6 words, so
you can choose which set you want to learn. But
its your responsibility to learn them. Have fun!
Odd Men with Foreign Accents All the syllabus
words in this game are English words, but theyre
taken directly from foreign languages. Which are
new syllabus words? What language is each set
from? And which word in each set is Odd Man Out?
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Vocabulary Power Games
Odd Men with Foreign Accents All the syllabus
words in this game are English words, but theyre
taken directly from foreign languages. Which are
new syllabus words? What language is each set
from? And which word in each set is Odd Man Out?
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau
Please fill in the following blanks.
1. New syllabus words Band 4 Band 6
audio ???, media ????, nucleus ??, via ??, virus
??, antique ???
apparatus ??, bonus ??, census ????, stimulus ??,
versus ????, corps ??, entrepreneur???, plateau
??
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau

• 2. Words from foreign origin
• Band 4 set one from origin
• Band 4 set two from origin
• Band 6 set one from origin
• Band 6 set two from origin

Latin
French
Latin
French
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau
3. Odd Man Out Band 4 set one Obvious Odd Men
Out are 1) , since its a preposition 2)
, because its a plural 3) , which is not a
new word.
via
media
campus
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau
3. Odd Man Out Band 4 set two Obvious Odd Men
Out are 4) , for it doesnt end in a vowel
sound.
antique
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau

• Odd Man Out
• Band 6 set one
• Obvious Odd Men Out are
• 1) , since its a noun
• 2) , because its plural form is Latin
  style.

versus
stimulus
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Vocabulary Power Games
Band 4 set one audio, campus, media, nucleus,
via, virus Band 4 set two amateur, antique,
avenue, cafe, menu Band 6 set one apparatus,
bonus, census, stimulus, versus Band 6 set two
corps, entrepreneur, plateau

• Odd Man Out
• Band 6 set two
• Obvious Odd Men Out are
• 1) , which is the only one-syllable words
• 2) , the only word of more than tow
  syllables.

corps
entrepreneur
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Listening
???? III Ex. 2.2, p. 46
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Listening
Pre-listening Activity You may want to know the
following words.
leave school, university, etc without finishing
ones courses ??
drop out (of school) live it up
(infml) live in a lively and extravagant way
??,????
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Listening
Listening Activity You are going to hear
different viewpoints about what students
think today. Then, have an oral practice.
Script
Oral Practice
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Listening
Oral Practice
In the previous discussion three of the four
speakers use the same expression to present their
counter-arguments I disagree.
Now, prepare your counter-arguments, the
following expressions could help you to express
your disagreement.
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Listening
I never I wouldnt go along with you there. I
dont / wouldnt agree. Thats not true.
No, it isnt / wasnt. But it cant be Youre
wrong. It certainly isnt / wasnt.
Discussion
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Listening
Topic for Discussion
Discussion

• Does school teach you anything about life? If so,
  what do you learn about life in school? If not,
  what was most useful to you for learning about
  life?
• Do you have to work hard in school or is school
  easy for you? Do you think you are a good
  student?
• If you could change one thing about your school
  life, what would you change? Why?
• Which of the above four viewpoints is closest to
  your own?

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Listening
A Students these days dont care about
education. All they care about is what kind of
job theyll have when they got out of school.
They dont have any interest in their majors,
only in the salary they think they can get after
they graduate. They dont even enjoy being
students I bet if they could get good jobs
right now, without diplomas, 90 of them would
drop out at once.
B I disagree. The students I know wouldnt drop
out. Theyre too comfortable. They get all the
money they need from their parents and from
scholarships they live it up on their fancy
campuses and they hardly have to do any work to
stay in school. They know theyve got it made.
C I disagree. Students dont appreciate their
situation. They dont realize that their
university years are the happiest and most
carefree time theyll ever have. They feel so
overwhelmed by their own problems and
difficulties that it never occurs to them that
theyre a million times better off than most of
the people in the world. They dont pay enough
attention to the rest of society. All they think
about is themselves.
D I disagree. The students I talk to pay plenty
of attention to society in fact theyre sure
they know how to run the world. Theyre convinced
theyre smarter and better and more competent
than anyone else in the world especially their
teachers. They already have all the answers.
Thats why they see no point in learning theyre
sure they already know everything there is to
know.
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