Unit Six

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Unit Six

• Women, Half the Sky
• Text A
• Im Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge

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• Writing Strategy
• How to achieve coherence of an article?
• The use transitional words and phrases
• but, however,yet
• The repetition of key words and phrases
• bridge, superwoman, heroine, supersister,
  superheroine, fairy tale, fantasy, dream,
  incredible achievement, extraordinary deeds
• The use of parallel structure

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Text Organization
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• outdo1. to be better or more successful than
  someone else at doing something
• When it comes to speed of response, a small firm
  can outdo a big company.
• outdo somebody in something
• skaters trying to outdo each other in grace and
  speed
• 2. not to be outdone, in order not to let someone
  else do better or seem better than you
• Not to be outdone, other computer manufacturers
  are also donating machines to schools.

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• home--1. hit/strike home
• --if a remark, situation, or experience hits
  home, it makes you realize how serious,
  difficult, or dangerous something is
• She could see that her remark had hit home.
• 2. hit/drive/hammer etc something home
• a) to make sure that someone understands what you
  mean by saying it in an extremely direct and
  determined way
• We really need to drive this message home.
• b) to hit or push something firmly into the
  correct position
• 3. bring something home to somebody/come home to
  somebody
• ---to make you realize how serious, difficult, or
  dangerous something is
• The episode has brought home to me the
  pointlessness of this war.

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• resolve
• 1. formal to make a definite decision to do
  something
• resolve to do something
• After the divorce she resolved never to marry
  again.
• Mary resolved that she would stop smoking.
• 2. to make a formal decision, especially by
  voting
• The Senate resolved to accept the President's
  proposals.
• resolve a dispute/conflict/problem etc
• The crisis was resolved by negotiations.
• Barnet was desperate for money to resolve his
  financial problems.

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• devour
• 1. to eat something quickly because you are very
  hungry
• The boys devoured their pancakes.
• 2.to read something quickly and eagerly, or watch
  something with great interest
• He devoured science fiction books as a teenager.
• 3.be devoured by something
• to be filled with a strong feeling that seems to
  control you
• Cindy felt devoured by jealousy.
• 4. literary to destroy someone or something
• Her body had been almost entirely devoured by the
  disease.
• 5. to use up all of something
• a job that devours all my energy

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• consume success stories by the pound
• --hear success stories in large amount/ hear a
  lot of success stories.
• By-?QUANTITY?
• used to show what unit of measurement or quantity
  is involved in selling, paying for, producing etc
  something
• Eggs are sold by the dozen.
• We're paid by the hour.
• She wanted to tear his hair out by the handful.

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• The answer had a familiar ring...
• ring
• --if something has a familiar ring, you feel that
  you have heard it before
• His voice had a strangely familiar ring.
• have the/a ring of something
• --if a statement or argument has a ring of truth,
  confidence etc, it seems as if it has this
  quality
• His explanation has the ring of truth.

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• reproach
• 1. formal to blame or criticize someone in a way
  that shows you are disappointed at what they have
  done
• reproach somebody for/with something
• He publicly reproached his son for his behavior.
• 2. reproach yourself
• to feel guilty about something that you think you
  are responsible for
• reproach yourself for/with
• You've got nothing to reproach yourself for - it
  was his own decision.

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• movers and shakers
• -- (informal) an important person who has power
  and influence over what happens in a situation
• He's one of the movers and shakers in Florida
  politics.

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• Racing the clock every day is such an exhausting
  effort that when I actually have a few free
  moments, I tend to collapse.
• Racing the clock-do something quickly in order
  to finish it on time.
• race--?SPORT? intransitive and transitive to
  compete against someone or something in a race
• race somebody up/down something etc
• I'll race you to the end of the road.
• collapse--?FAIL?if a system, idea, or
  organization collapses, it suddenly fails or
  becomes too weak to continue
• The luxury car market has collapsed.
• I thought that without me the whole project would
  collapse.

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• bide your time
• to wait until the right moment to do something
• They are stronger than us and can afford to bide
  their time.

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• I suppose it has something to do with the appeal
  of an optimistic approach to life
• I think because of the attractive optimistic
  attitudes towards life
• appeal--?BEING ATTRACTIVE?uncountable a quality
  that makes people like something or someone
• What is the particular appeal of this island?
• The programme has a very wide appeal .
• The film has great appeal for young audiences.

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• A diet with no treats
• food with no good taste
• treat--countable a special food that tastes
  good, especially one that you do not eat very
  often
• The cafe serves an assortment of gourmet treats.
• my treat--spoken used to tell someone that you
  will pay for something such as a meal for them
• Let's go out to lunch - my treat.
• go down a treat--British English informal if
  something goes down a treat, people like it very
  much
• That new vegetarian restaurant seems to be going
  down a treat.
• look/work a treat--to look very good or work very
  well
• The sports ground looked a treat, with all the
  flags flying.

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• We working women are too sophisticated for that.
• --we working women are too experienced for that
  kind of silly stories to believe them.
• sophisticated
• 1. having a lot of experience of life, and good
  judgment about socially important things such as
  art, fashion etc
• a sophisticated, witty American Clarissa's hair
  was swept up into a sophisticated style.
• 2. having a lot of knowledge and experience of
  difficult or complicated subjects and therefore
  able to understand them well
• British voters have become much more
  sophisticated.

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