Unit Four Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Work, Labour and Play Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio Directions: Summarize the author's explanation of his Part Division of the Text understanding of work, "labour and play Further Understanding 1 Whether a job can be classified as work depends on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it Table Completion Work 2 Work has nothing to do with the division between a manual and a mental job True or False Whether a man's job can be viewed as work depends on his attitude toward leisure Ajob can be classified as labour if a person has no Labour interest in it /2 He is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family. Play is a private activity that one enjoys doing as a pastime 2 Whether one plays or not is a matter of the least concern to societ 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程子O
Further Understanding Table Completion True or False Part Division of the Text Directions: Summarize the author’s explanation of his understanding of “work”, “labour” and “play”. Work Labour Play 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 Whether a job can be classified as work depends on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. Work has nothing to do with the division between a manual and a mental job. Whether a man’s job can be viewed as work depends on his attitude toward leisure. A job can be classified as labour if a person has no interest in it. He is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family. Play is a private activity that one enjoys doing as a pastime. Whether one plays or not is a matter of the least concern to society
Unit Four Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Work, Labour and Play Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio 1. The development of technology and the division of labor Part Division of the Text have turned a large amount of enjoyable work into boring Further Understanding labor. Because of the development of technology and the division of labour, the need for special strength or skill in Table Completion many fields has been eliminated. (T) True or False 2. We are very happy to imagine a world in future where the majority of the workforce have as much time for play as the upper classes used to have in the past. (F) E The prospect is not cheerful that in future the majority of the workforce- ordinary people- have as much time for play as the upper classes used to have in the past 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程子O
The development of technology and the division of labor have turned a large amount of enjoyable work into boring labor. Because of the development of technology and the division of labour, the need for special strength or skill in many fields has been eliminated. We are very happy to imagine a world in future where the majority of the workforce have as much time for play as the upper classes used to have in the past. Further Understanding Table Completion True or False Part Division of the Text The prospect is not cheerful that in future the majority of the workforce — ordinary people — have as much time for play as the upper classes used to have in the past. ( ) F ( ) T 1. 2
Unit Four Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Work, Labour and Play Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio Part Division of the Text 3. Unlike the aristocracy who used to repeat the same ceremonies in certain seasons, labourers are likely to Further Understanding spend their leisure time in dangerous driving, drug-taking and senseless acts of violence. (T) Table Completion True or False 4. Workers seldom commit acts of violence at home because they do it in their work.(F a Workers seldom commit acts of violence, because they are bent on their work and the aggressiveness inside themselves, if any, would naturally turn into the motivation and determination to do their jobs well Prev 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程子O
Unlike the aristocracy who used to repeat the same ceremonies in certain seasons, labourers are likely to spend their leisure time in dangerous driving, drug-taking, and senseless acts of violence. Workers seldom commit acts of violence at home, because they do it in their work. Further Understanding Table Completion True or False Part Division of the Text Workers seldom commit acts of violence, because they are bent on their work and the aggressiveness inside themselves, if any, would naturally turn into the motivation and determination to do their jobs well. ( ) F ( ) T 3. 4
Unit Four Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Work, Labour and Play Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio Detailed Reading e We go to work every day and we think we are workers However, after reading Auden s discussion about work, labour, and play, the majority of us may find that we are no longer workers What are we then? 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程子O
We go to work every day and we think we are workers. However, after reading Auden’s discussion about work, labour, and play, the majority of us may find that we are no longer “workers”. What are we then? Detailed Reading
Unit Four Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Work, Labour and Play Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio 4 Work, Labour and Play Wystan H Auden Detailed Reading So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labour. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. s In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, whether what a man does has social value depends on whether he is paid money to do it, but a labourer today can rightly be called a wage slave 《Prev.Next 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程子O
Work, Labour and Play Wystan H. Auden Detailed Reading So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labour. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, whether what a man does has social value depends on whether he is paid money to do it, but a labourer today can rightly be called a wage slave