Unit Seven

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Unit Seven

• Text A
• Are You a Workaholic?

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• Topic for Discussion
• Do you want to be a workaholic?

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Words and Phrases

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• ????
• ??????
• ????

• workaholic
• on the other hand
• feel lost
• hide from problems

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• ????
• ?????
• ?????
• ?????????

• be defined as
• compelling behaviour
• lip service
• to burn the midnight oil
• at risk

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• ??
• ????
• ??????
• ??????
• ??? ???

• be trapped in
• the Stone Age
• bleak economic conditions
• in the fast lane
• equate with

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• ????
• ??,??
• ????
• ??,??

• to put all their eggs in one basket
• rack up
• mystery novel
• come in

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Sentences

• ?????????????????
• The job involves traveling abroad for three
  months each year.
• ????????????
• What are the dimensions of the room?

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• ???????????, ????????????????
• He pays lip service to feminism, but his wife
  still does all the housework.
• ????????,????????
• I fear for her safety in this weather.

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• ?????????????
• They were trapped in the burning hotel.
• ??????????????????
• Air, food and water are indispensable to life.

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• ?????????,???????
• She takes her exams next week, so she's burning
  the midnight oil.
• ?????????,????????????????????
• I'm applying for several jobs because I don't
  really want to put all my eggs in one basket.

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workaholic (L1)

• n infml,
• She's a complete workaholic - --her job is her
  whole life!

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-aholic suffix ?dependent on or with an
extreme fondness for

• alcoholic
• carboholic
• colaholic
• Cyberholic
• foodaholic

• ???, ??
• ??????
• ??????
• ???????????
• ???,??

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other than (L3)

• instead of, except for
• Have we anything to drink other than milk?
• ????,?????????????
• You cant get there other than by swimming.

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• 2. not anything but
• ????????
• She can hardly be other than grateful.
• ???????????????
• The truth was quite other than what he thought.

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drunk (L8)

• ???????
• She is drunk with power.

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define (L9)

• vt. 1) to give the meaning of (a word or idea)
  describe exactly ??,?...???
• Some words are hard to define because they have
  many different uses.
• 2) as to show the nature of characterize
  ????
• What defines us as human?

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on the one/other hand (L3)

• (used for comparing different things or ideas) as
  one point in the argument/as an opposite point
• I know this job of mine isn't well paid, but on
  the other hand I don't have to work long hours.

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• on the contrary to show complete disagreement
  with what has just been said ???
• In the end I still felt there was no way I could
  lose. On the contrary, I thought I would win too
  easily.

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• in contrast to show the (surprising) difference
  between two very different facts ??, ????
• He has virtually no experience of running
  anything. The other candidate, by/in contrast, is
  a sincere, caring man who made a fortune in
  business before going into public life.

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Exercise
On the contrary

• 1. Does it rain a lot in the desert?
  _____________, it hardly ever rains.
• 2. It is hot in the desert in the day, but
  ___________it's very cold at night.
• 3. It rarely rains in the desert, but
  _______________ it rains a lot in the coastal
  areas.

in contrast
on the other hand
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sanction (L11)

• vt. fml 1) ??
• The church would not sanction the king's second
  marriage.
• 2) to make acceptable ??
• It was a foolish custom, but one sanctioned by
  long usage.

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• 3. ??
• ????????????
• The United States applied economic sanctions
  against Cuba.
• ?????????????????????????
• The international community imposed sanctions on
  that country for its ___________ actions.
• terrorist

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lip (L11)

• a stiff upper lip
• bite one's lips
• button one's lip
• lipread
• lick one's lip

• ????, ????
• ????(?????)
• ??? ????
• ????
• ????

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• lip-sync
• lip-worship
• lip service
• lip stick

• ???
• ???????
• ????
• ??, ??

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• lip service support in word, not in fact
• ???????????,????????????????
• He pays lip service to feminism, but his wife
  still does all the housework.
• ????????????,???????????????
• Some peo0ple pay lip service to education, but
  dont vote taxes for __________ educational
  facilities.
• bettering

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burn the midnight oil (L14)

• ????????,???????
• She takes her exams next week, so shes burning
  the midnight oil.

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hazard (L14)

• n to something likely to cause damage or loss
  a danger or risk??????
• Ice on the roads is a hazard to drivers in cold
  countries in winter time.
• He went to save the girl at all hazards.

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• vt. fml to risk put in danger?(??????)???
• He hazarded all his money in an investment.
• ???????????????
• __________ sometimes hazard their lives.
• Rock-climbers

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danger etc.

• danger of/to the possibility of harm or loss
  ??,???(????,??????????????????,?????????????????)
• The increasing usage of the plastics is a danger
  to the environment.
• The mans life had been in danger, but now he was
  out of danger

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• hazard ??(??????????,????????????????????,hazard??
  ????????,????????,?????????????)
• There are many hazards in a journey across
  Africa.
• Life is full of hazards.

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• risk of/that (a) danger (a) possibility
  that something harmful or undesirable may happen
  ??,??(????,???????danger??,????????????,??????????
  ?,??????????????)
• There was a risk that the decision would spark
  off a conflict.
• It is not by accident that he came to the boy's
  rescue at the risk of his own life.

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rack up (L16)

• rack up increase gradually, collect gather
• ?????????,????????
• The team has racked up ten points to win the
  game.
• rack ones brain(s)
• ????

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counsellor (L17)

• counsellor someone who gives professional advice
  to people, esp. about personal problems
• Have you thought of seeing a counsellor?
• adviser someone whose job is to give advice to a
  person or organization, esp. in business, law or
  politics
• the government's special adviser on the Middle
  East

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• consultant someone who gives special technical
  advice to companies or other organizations
• a consultant to a software firm
• an industrial relations consultant
• a firm of consultants

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Exercise

• 1. Hes left his job as a computer programmer
  and is working as a ____________ for a German
  firm.
• 2. Each child in the summer camp can see a
  trained _________ if they have any problems.
• 3. Consult an independent financial _________
  before making any major investment.

consultant
counsellor
adviser
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necessarily (L19)

• ??????????
• Good food is not necessarily expensive.
• -----He was lying, of cou8rse.
• ----- Not necessarily.
• ??????? ???

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equate (L35)

• vt. with to consider or make equal ???????,
  ????
• You can't equate passing examinations and being
  intelligent/with being intelligent.
• Politics cannot be equated with art.
• ??????????
• He equates _________ with _________.
• poverty, misery

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rationalize (L37)

• ????????????????????????
• That he rationalized his cheating by saying that
  everyone else cheated ___________ us.
• disgusted

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pull all ones eggs in one basket

• ????
• ??????????????????
• To buy stock in a single company is to put all
  your eggs in one basket.