Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life

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Unit 7

• Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life

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• Group work
• Do you usually feel stressful in your study?
• What do you think of stress?
• How do you solve your stress?

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• To get some ideas about the background
  information of the text
• The University of Nebraska
• Benjamin Franklin

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Guess the meaning of the italicized term in each
sentence.

• He was overwhelmed with grief at the news of his
  sons death in accident.
• The policeman overwhelmed the robber by holding
  his arm.

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• If you take more luggage than is allowed, you
  will have to pay for the excess luggage.
• He spends too much money his excesses put him
  into debt.
• The heart pumps the blood round the body.

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• We took turns pumping out the boat.
• 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to drunk
  driving.
• Kindness is one of his best attributes.

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• You cant do all the jobs yourself---you must
  learn to delegate.
• He delegated his responsibilities to an
  assistant.
• Many nations send delegates to the United
  Nations.

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• Not a breath of air stirred.
• The story stirred the boys imagination.
• His film has caused a stir in America.
• Children need an outlet for their energy.

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• This job provides an excellent outlet for his
  artistic impulse.
• I wouldnt recommend reading in this light it
  may affect your eyes.
• I recommend that he try the new medicine.

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• The doctor recommended me a change of climate for
  her health.
• Can you recommend me a good hotel in the city?
• What are your priorities in this matter?

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• We have a priority booking system for members of
  the club.
• Tomorrow will be the deadline for handing in the
  book report.
• The news is just reaching us that the president
  has fled the country.
• Up to five million political refugees have fled
  to other countries.

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Match the synonyms in column 2 with those in
column 1.

• spin tense exterior flee interior
  substitute stimulate
• cycle, escape, rotate, strained, twist, swirl,
  wheel, switch, motivate, turn, tight, evade,
  invigorate, nervous, outer, twirl, external,
  inner, replace, inside, disappear, nuclear
  exchange, shift, change, activate, rouse, move,
  stir, spur, energize, outside

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• Language Points
• adjectivetempered
• sweet-tempered, mild-tempered, good-tempered,
  even-tempered
• moody-tempered,
• quick-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered
• ill-tempered, bad-tempered

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• the suffix -some
• trouble-some
• quarrelsome
• Burdensome
• lonesome
• tiresome

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• Homework
• learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• go over the text and write down the difficult
  points.

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• (para. 1)
• meaning
• Like
• Do you make bread like you make cake?
• Like I said, I cant get there on Saturday.

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• (para. 2) meaning
• (para. 3, line 1) sentence structure
• So
• The reasons for the inverted order of the
  sentence
• (para. 4) hot reactors

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• (para.5) among other things
• At the meeting they discussed, among other
  things, recent events in Eastern Europe.
• Shes very keen on sport among other things, she
  plays tennis twice a week.

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• (para. 5, line 2) Meaning
• (para. 5, line 3) When that happens it happens
  very quickly.
• That and it
• (para. 5, line 4) It creates many short circuit,
  and that causes crazy heart rhythms.
• It and that

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• (para. 5, line 5) Meaning
• (para. 6, line 4) collected
• (para. 7) Meaning
• (para. 9, line 1) Meaning
• (para. 9, line 4) blow ones tops
• My father will blow his top when he sees what
  happened to the car.
• When he told her how much it cost, she blew her
  top.

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• (para.10, line 1) Meaning
• Notice the same can be followed by an
  as-clause or a that-clause
• Our eggs are sole the same day as / that they
  came in.
• He was wearing the same coat as / that he had on
  when we met him five years ago.
• He works in the same shop as / that I do.

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• (para. 10, line 3) Stir in ones own juice
• (para. 11) Meaning
• the???the???
• The farther north you go, the more severe the
  winters are.
• The more you tell him, the less notice he takes.
• The more he flatters me, the more I dislike him.

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• Blow apart
• His car had been blown apart.
• (para. 14) Meaning Stop on your way of life.
• (para. 18) Meaning
• (para. 20, the last line) Meaning

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• Key structures
• inverted sentence
• 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.

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• The main predictors of destructive levels of
  stress are the FUD factors, together with
  perceived lack of control.
• And they give the same emphasis to traffic jam
  that they give a family argument.