New Horizon College English Reading

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Unit 10

• Text A How to Cultivate "EQ"
• Text B EQ Plays a Role
• in Personal Success

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Text A

• How to Cultivate "EQ"

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Contents

• Teaching Objectives
• Lead-in
• Background Information
• Global Comprehension
• Cultural Reflection
• Language Study
• Language Output
• Assignment

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Teaching Objectives

• Help students
• understand main idea of the text
• read for detailed information
• share ideas about significance of EQ
• talk about how to foster EQ at the campus
• expand vocabulary on the present topic
• make presentation on a given topic.

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Lead In video watching

• Watch the video clip of Learn to Be Yourself
  and talk about
• 1. What is EQ? Why do we think it is vital in
  our daily life?
• 2. How can we foster our EQ in our daily life?

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Lead In video watching

• Tips

emotional quotient, multiple quotient,
multi-intelligence, communication with people,
problem-solving ability, respect to each other,
interpersonal communication, cooperation,
teamwork spirit
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Background Information EQ

• The expression emotional intelligence is
  used to indicate a kind of intelligence that
  i______ the ability to perceive, assess and
  positively influence one's own and other people's
  emotions. To address some of the further
  abilities p_______ by intelligent people, Elliot
  Solloway coined the term emotional intelligence.
  He considered that being able to direct one's
  emotions, as well as being able to understand and
  influence other people's emotional responses,
  went a long way towards effective a_______ to an
  environment.

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Background Information IQ

• IQ is an a_________ for intelligence
  quotient, a measure of a person's intellectual
  ability in relation to that of the rest of the
  population. It is expressed as the ratio of
  mental age to actual age, m______ by 100, and is
  based on the scores achieved in an intelligence
  test. The two most important scales for measuring
  IQ are the Standford-Binet test and the Weschler
  test. The d________ of IQ scores is more-or-less
  Gaussian, that is to say that it follows the bell
  curve.

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Global Comprehension
I. Text structure
______________ of EQ
(Para. 1-3)
The significance
__________________ to cultivate EQ

(Paras. 4-8)
Four adaptive skills
_________________________ for the skills

(Paras. 9-12)
The mechanisms of the mind
The importance of EQ
__________________
(Paras. 13)
in academic training
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Global Comprehension

• II. Main idea
• The new research shows that EQ may be c_____
  for business success. To cultivate our EQ, our
  effort should be aimed at improving four adaptive
  skills raising c__________ using imagery
  considering and reconsidering events to choose
  the most creative response to them and
  integrating the p_________ of others. They are
  based on our knowledge about the m________ of the
  mind. In effect, without EQ, IQ alone is worth
  little.

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onsciousness
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Global Comprehension
III. Reading for detailed information
Read the text carefully and try to answer each
of the following questions for better
understanding of the text. You are greatly
encouraged to find the exact place for the answer.
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Global Comprehension
What stuff do intelligent but inflexible people
lack according to Daniel Goleman?
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The ability to adapt./The adaptive skills.
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Global Comprehension
What should people do to raise their
consciousness according to the author?
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Thinking differently on purpose. It involves
noticing what you are feeling and thinking and
escaping the conditioned confines of ones past.
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Global Comprehension
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Why does the author suggest integrating the
perspectives of others?
Because your view of the world is limited by your
genes and experiences youve had and by
integrating the perspectives of others you can
enlarge your senses.
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Global Comprehension
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What does the author mean by saying without the
software of emotional maturity and
self-knowledge, the hardware of academic training
alone is worth less and less?
By saying this, the author means without
cultivating emotional intelligence, the academic
training is useless.
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Cultural Reflection

• Discussion questions
• Do you think nowadays in our country parents pay
  more and more attention to the development of
  their childrens EQ?
• What do you think could be the causes for this
  trend?
• Have you ever tried something to foster your
  better EQ? If so, share your experiences with the
  class.

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Language Study long sentence

• Read the following sentence and translate it into
  NATURAL Chinese.
• As Daniel Goleman suggests in his new book,
  Emotional Intelligence, the latest scientific
  findings seem to indicate that intelligent but
  inflexible people don't have the right stuff in
  an age when the adaptive ability is the key to
  survival.
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Language Study long sentence

• Now translate it back into English.
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  scientific findings seem to indicate thatin an
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• intelligent but inflexible people

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Language Study words expressions

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make a contribution to sort through on
purpose reflect on/upon maturity adapt
effectively to cognitive abilities
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Language Study words expressions
Match-up
positively influence a sixth sense scientific
findings shapes ones senses raising
consciousness a Greek philosopher enlarge ones
senses a political event a cover story

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Language Study Exercise

• 1. The term was picked __ in 1995 by Daniel
  Goleman in his best-seller book.
• 2. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless
  ____ it is applied.
• 3. Raise your consciousness by catching yourself
  __ the act of thinking.
• 4. they run the course __ their minds first,
  which improves their performance.

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Language Output

1. Think of 7 situations in which the expressions on
   the left column can be used. It is advisable to
   apply them to your personal experience.
2. Create a story that contains at least 3 of them.

• positively
• adaptation to
• indicate
• on purpose
• aim at
• sort through
• maturity

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Assignment

• Prepare a 3-minute speech on how to develop
  university students EQ for better academic
  achievements at the campus.

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Section B

• EQ Plays a Role
• in Personal Success

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Contents

• Teaching Objectives
• Reading Skills
• Vocabulary Expansion
• Writing Skills
• Assignment

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Teaching Objectives

• Help students
• practice the reading skill of skimming
• recognize and master words and expressions of
  high communicative value
• learn about exposition.

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Reading Skills

• Skimming
• We talked about the Reading Skills Skimming
  in Unit 6, Book 3. Rapid reading for
  information is called skimming. When we skim a
  paragraph or a page, we are searching quickly
  among sentences for the answers to some questions
  we have.

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Reading Skills

• Skimming
• Here are some hints for skimming.
• 1) Make sure that we know what information we
  are looking for.
• 2) Move our eyes quickly from line to line and
  from sentence to sentence, paying special
  attention to numbers, paragraph markers,
  italicized words, capital letters, subtitles,
  etc. while always having the questions in mind.

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Reading Skills

• Skimming
• 3) When we have found what we need, think
  about the questions to see whether the
  information answers the question.
• 4) Take down the answers to the questions we
  have in mind.

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Reading Skills

• Skimming
• Now skim Passage A for the answers to the
  following questions.
• Example 1 Skim the first 2 paragraphs to find
  out the name of the new book written by Daniel
  Goleman.
• Key Emotional Intelligence.
• Explanation What we have to do is search
  quickly or to skim the Name Daniel Goleman and
  then we find the italicized words Emotional
  Intelligence, the name of the book.

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Reading Skills

• Example2
• Example2 Skim the whole passage to find out
  the 4 adaptive skills suggested by the author.
• Key Raising consciousness
• Using imagery
• Considering and reconsidering events to
  choose the most creative response to
  them Integrating the perspectives of
  others.

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Vocabulary Expansion
Match-up
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with show up thanks to have authority over
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Writing Skills
Exposition
Exposition is the writing that explains. It often
answers the questions how? And why? Its purpose
is to present ideas and to make the idea as clear
as possible. It often follows logical order.
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Writing Skills
Exposition

• In exposition, the writer is more likely to
  appeal to the audiences reasons by using
  evidence and logic rather than to appeal to their
  emotions.
• The expository writer usually moves from topic
  sentence to supporting details, from general to
  particular.

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Assignment

• Writing Assignment Title
• The Significance of EQ

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Thank you for your attention!