New Horizon College English

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New Horizon College English
Book Four
Unit Eight
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Text A
Losing an Accent to Achieve Success
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Pre-reading Activities
Text Analysis
Expressions Patterns
Test yourself
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Compound Dictation Listen to the passage and fill
in the blanks
Watch Discuss Watch the video and discuss the
given topics.
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Compound Dictation
Directions You will hear a passage. It will be
read twice. Listen carefully and supply the
missing words.
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• If you want to know what Americans do when
  they are not working, well, the _____ adult
  spends almost two hours a day on ______
  activities like______, cleaning and paying_____.
  How do we know? The Department of Labor has just
  ______a study of how Americans use their time.
  The study ________something that many people
  already knew. Women spend more time on _______
  and house-work than men do, even when the women
  are_______. Men, however, spend more time at
  work. Men also spend more time on ______
  activities and ____.

average
household
cooking
bills
released
confirmed
child care
employed
leisure
sports
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Directions Watch the video and then
discuss the topics as follows
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Question for para.1
Losing an Accent to Achieve Success   Para. 1-2
It was painful for Irwin Layton to warn one of
his recently promoted managers that he had to
correct his speech or it could cost him his
career.   The word "voltage" came out of
Edwin's mouth sounding like "woltage", and "this"
sounded like "dis". This often resulted in
mistakes being made in the shipments he ordered.
 
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Question for para.4
Para. 3-4 "I was really forced into
submission. They said, 'Either you improve your
accent or your chances of getting promoted to
senior management won't be good,'" said Edwin.
  Edwin is a junior manager making 51,000 a year
at a manufacturing company in Mountain View.
Despite mixed feelings, he hired a speech coach
to help him out.  
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Para.5 He is not alone. Accent reduction is
rapidly turning into a major business for speech
coaches in the Bay Area and other large cities.
Young, first-generation foreign professionals in
America hoping to improve their careers appear to
make up the majority of those paying to get rid
of their accents.
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Question for para.6
Para. 6   "I have people whose command of
English is good they've gone to universities
here in the United States, but when they go into
the workplace, they are held back," said Arthur
Compton, founder of the Institute of Language
Phonology in San Francisco.  
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Para.7-8 Edwin said he was embarrassed and tried
to ignore incidents throughout his career when
colleagues would point out his accent and do
imitations of his pronunciations for fun.  
Edwin's experiences early in his career made him
very sensitive to the problems he faced with his
accent, and, like many others, he compensated by
pushing himself to great extremes in education.
 
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Question for para.9
Para.9 "I felt that just because I had an accent,
some people thought I was stupid," Edwin said.
"They lost patience. They did not want to wait to
listen for what I was trying to say. It made me
feel so bad. I knew I had so much to offer my
primary motive for working there was to do what I
could to improve the company. Yet, none of that
seemed to matter to them because they didn't have
patience."
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Question for para.11
Para.10-11 Speech coaches and many other
professionals say that some Americans have a
prejudice against those who speak with an accent.
  Losing an accent is hard work. Each language
has certain sounds, as we can tell from the many
different alphabets, that are just not found in
other languages. We learn as babies to make these
sounds by moving the lips, mouth, and tongue
muscles in set patterns. So a speech coach tries
and resets these patterns for people who speak
other languages.
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Para.12 For 13 weeks, and at a cost of 795,
Edwin spent an hour each week with a speech
instructor, pronouncing, over and over again,
compound words such as "zookeeper", preposition
phrases such as "in regard to", as well as words
such as "this" and "voltage", all the while
looking in a mirror at his mouth. Seeing himself
allowed him to have a visual image to go along
with the sounds he was making.
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Question for para.13
Question for the text
Para.13 "When class was over, I was exhausted,"
he said. But following the long procession of
lessons, he improved by 78 percent, received a
healthy injection of confidence, and admits that
he should have done it sooner. His boss, Layton,
called it a "win-win" situation, and is so
enthusiastic that he is sponsoring a second
employee in the program.
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it could cost him his career.
Paraphrase he would probably lose his job and
ruin his career.
cost to cause the loss of ???
More example
That one mistake almost cost him his
life. ??????????????
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Despite mixed feelings, he hired a speech coach
to help him out.
Paraphrase Though he felt uncertain about what
to do, he hired a speech coach to help him get
rid of his accent.
help out help sb esp in a difficult situation or
a crisis ????(?????????)
More example
He's always willing to help (us) out when we're
short of staff. ?????????, ???????.
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Young, first-generation foreign professionals in
America hoping to improve their careers appear to
make up the majority of those paying to get rid
of their accents.
Paraphrase Among those people who paid to get
rid of their accents, most were young,
first-generation foreign professionals in America
who hoped to have better prospects in their
careers.
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phrase
make up 1.constitute form ???? 2. invent a
story ??
more examples
One hundred years make up a century. ?????????? He
made up some excuse about his daughters being
sick. ?????,????????
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more phrase of make
make out write out??? manage
to see sb./sth ??? make up for do sth. that
corrects a bad situation
?? make it succeed??
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Edwin said he was embarrassed and tried to ignore
incidents throughout his career when colleagues
would point out his accent and do imitations of
his pronunciations for fun.
Paraphrase Edwin said his colleagues often
pointed out his accent and imitated his
pronunciation just for fun. And he felt ashamed
and tried to pay little attention to these
unpleasant things.
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Edwin's experiences early in his career made him
very sensitive to the problems
be sensitive to be easily affected???
more example
A writer mustn't be too sensitive to criticism.
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none of that seemed to matter to them because
they didn't have patience.
Paraphrase But neither my passion for work nor
my ability seemed important to them because they
weren't patient enough to listen to me, one who
spoke English with an accent.
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matter (to sb) (used esp in negative sentences
and questions in sentences containing what, who,
where, if, etc, usu with it as the subject) be
important ???? ??
more examples
What does it matter (whether he comes or goes)?
(???????, )??????? Some things matter more
than others. ???????. Does it matter if we're a
bit late? ???????????? It doesn't matter to me
what you do. ?????????.
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Seeing himself allowed him to have a visual image
to go along with the sounds he was making.
Paraphrase Seeing himself in the mirror enabled
him to see how the mouth, lips, and the tongue
moved while pronouncing the sounds.
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His boss, Layton, called it a "win-win"
situation, and is so enthusiastic that he is
sponsoring a second employee in the program.
explanation
a win-win situationboth Edwin and his company
benefited from this situation ?????
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Test YourselfMultiple Choice
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For each sentence there are four choices marked
A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that
best completes the sentence.
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• 1. The evening party was _____ by a charity fund
  to raise money for the disabled.
• A. B. performed
  
• C. staged D. raised
• 2. Though _____, we were all excited after the
  long trip.
• A. exhausting B. unhappy
• C. D. tiring

sponsored
exhausted
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• 3. She was kind enough to _____ me in the use of
  the coin-operated telephone.
• A. B. order
• C. tell D. educate
• 4. Why are you so _____ to what others think of
  you?
• A. careful B. kind
• C. D.
  attentive

instruct
sensitive
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• 5. The small success gave him a(n) ____ of new
  hope after so many troubles.
• A. B. trap
• C. curse D. series
• 6. _____ aids are things that you can look at to
  help you understand something or to remember
  information.
• A. B.
  Practical
• C. Compound D. Usual

injection
Visual
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• 7. A large ____ of grain arrived at the port from
  Australia.
• A. bag B.
• C. baggage D. transit
• 8. Mother _____ flour, yeast(??), and water to
  make bread.
• A. put B.
• C. combined D. injected

shipment
mixed
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• 9. Nothing can _____ for the loss of a loved one.
  
• A. share B. repaid
• C. compromised D.
• 10. It wasnt very _____ to go out on your own so
  late at night.
• A. B. sensitive
• C. ideal D. considerate

compensate
sensible
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Questions for para.1
What was Mr. Laytons trouble?
Reference words
His strong accent would cost him his career.
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Question for para.4
What was he going to do to solve his problem?
Reference words
hired a speech coach to help him out
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Questions for para.6
According to Arthur Compton, what hold back young
foreign professionals in workplace?
Reference words
accents
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Question for para.9
Why do people refuse to listen to Edwin?
Reference words
They lose patience because of his accent
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Question for para.11
Was it easy to lose accent? Why?
Reference words
No, hard work. Sounds are made in set patterns
in languages.
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Questions for para.13
What resulted from his efforts?
Reference words
He improved by 78 percent and was much more
confident than before
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Question for the text
How can accents hold back ones career? How do
you plan to improve your accent?
Reference words
Accents can cause trouble in career.
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  ?dis? ???????????????

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• ?13????,?????795??,???????????????,??????th
  is,voltage????,??zookeeper?????in regard
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