Five Traits of the Educated Man

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Unit 8

• Five Traits of the Educated Man

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Pre-reading question

• What do you think an English gentleman looks
  like? What are the generally accepted standards
  of an educated man?

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Exposition

• It is any writing which takes an objective point
  of view, which means the writer informs or
  explains without expressing or advocating his own
  opinion. Newspapers and broadcast news programs
  are ideally supposed to be this kind of writing

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Text structure

• Part one It raises the question What are the
  marks of an educated man?
• Part two The five traits of an educated man.
• Part three Conclusion

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Part I (Para. 1)

• What probably leads to the acquisition of the
  fine characteristics of an educated man?

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• Mark
• Plain
• Not inconsiderable
• Body
• Capacity
• Capable vs. able

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Part II (Para. 2-6)

• What do the good qualities of well spoken English
  consist of ?

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Para. 2

• stand out (phrasal verb)
• slovenliness
• not a little vs. not a bit
• beyond peradventure
• pure diction
• unconscious

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Para. 3

• indispensable necessary
• dispensable unnecessary that can be got rid of
• dispense verb
• dispense with sth./sb. (phrasal verb)

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• point to/towards sth.
• phrasal verb
• Superficial
• Forced

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Para. 4

• Human beings for the most part live wholly on the
  surface of life. They do not look beneath that
  surface or far beyond the present moment and that
  part of the future which is quickly to follow it.

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Translation

• They do not read works of prose and poetry on
  the way to knowing something about science.

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Para. 5

• What role does adult education play in the
  present society?

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• contact n.
• multiply
• multiple
• multiple choices

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Para. 6-7

• What does the power to do prove?

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• exercise (formal) use (a power, right, or
  quality)
• given
• outline
• scholarship
• letters
• institution

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• 1. be embodied
• 2. persistent continuous hard work
• 3. be the most important and significant
• 4. undoubtedly not been effective
• 5. revealed
• 6. making progress and very likely to succeed in