河南理工大学 Henan Polytechnic University New Horizon College English Book 4 新视野大学英语4 School of Foreign Studies 外国语学院 Bai Guifen 白桂芬 Unit 10 Section A How to Cultivate EQ Warm-up Q1. What is EQ in your mind? Q2. What effects does EQ have on career and life? EQ, or Emotional Intelligence Quotient stands for the way to deal intelligently with your emotions in different situations . Now EQ is thought to be the hotter ticket for success, it seems likely that every one of us is eager for what EQ is made up of. Self-consciousness—the ability to notice the flow of one’s feelings or emotions; Self-control—the ability to keep bad moods under one’s control; Self-motivation—the ability to mobilize positive feelings to pursue tough tasks; Self-regulation—the ability to delay impulse. 返回 E.Q has following effects on various factors of career and life and turns them in your favor: 1) Career choice: 2) Retention Rate: 3)key Interpersonal and Intrapersonal communication: 4) Conflict Management: 5) Leadership and Cooperation 返回 Contents • New Words • Structure and writing device • Passage Reading • Post-reading • Assignments Incorporate vt. make something a part of something larger 纳入, 使并入 Example Suggestions from the survey have been incorporated into the final design. The shopping center also incorporates a library and a bank. trigger: n. a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen. (触发器,扳机) vt. make something happen. (使发生,引发) Example The odour of food may be a trigger for man's appetite. 食物的香味能引起人的食欲。 trigger: n. a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen. (触发器,扳机) vt. make something happen. (使发生,引发) Example Regular reports on corruption could trigger the necessary pressure on all players to end abuses of power. 对于腐败行为的经常性报道能够对所有的玩家形成压 力,促使他们停止滥用权力。 Contents • New Words • Structure and writing device • Passage Reading • Post-reading • Assignments Back EQ is the hot ticket for business Part 1 (Paras. 1-3) The introduction of EQ. success. Four adaptive skills need to be Part 2 (Paras. 4-8) Proposals (four skills) to cultivate it. improved to cultivate EQ. The four Part skills3are based on the (Paras.work. 9-12) Why the four skills mechanisms of the mind. Without EQ, academic training Part 4 (Para. 13) Conclusion: reemphasis on EQ. alone is worth less and less. What is the text mainly about? The new research shows that EQ may be crucial for business success. To cultivate our EQ, our effort should be aimed at improving four adaptive skills: raising consciousness; using imagery; considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them; and integrating the perspectives of others. As long as we keep at such effort, we can make it, for they are based on our knowledge about the mechanisms of the mind. In effect, without EQ, IQ alone is worth little. Contents • New Words • Structure and writing device • Passage Reading • Post-reading • Assignments Part I (Para.1-3): EQ is the hot ticket for business success. A. Questions B. Language points Passage Reading Questions for Part One 1. Why does the author believe that judgment rather than knowledge is the most important contribution employees make to their companies? Because he believes that knowledge is useless until it is applied. And application of knowledge takes judgment. 下一页 Questions for Part One 2. What stuff do intelligent but inflexible people lack according to Daniel Goleman? The ability to adapt./The adaptive skills. 3. According to the Time magazine, what is the true measure of human intelligence? Emotions. 上一页 下一页 Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 1. to have the right stuff (for/to do)… (L. 8) 具有······才能/素质 有人天生就有成为成功者的素质。 Someone is born with the right stuff to be a be a successor. Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 2. to sort through… (L. 10) 整理······ cf. sort out Talk to someone you trust about what you are feeling --- they can help you sort through your emotions. 和你所信任的人说一说你正 在的感受----他们能帮助你 理清你的情绪。 Part II (Para.4-8): Four adaptive skills need to be improved to cultivate EQ. A. Questions B. Language points Passage Reading Questions for Part Two 1. What is the author’s suggestion for people who want to develop their emotional intelligence? Accept a highly personal practice to improve the four adaptive skills: raising consciousness, using imagery, considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them and integrating the perspectives of others. 上一页 下一页 Questions for Part Two 2. What should people do to raise their consciousness according to the author? Thinking differently on purpose. 3. Why do Olympic ski racers close their eyes, sway their bodies and imagine themselves running the course before entering the starting gate? Because by doing this they can improve their performance. 上一页 下一页 Questions for Part One 4. Why does the author suggest integrating the perspectives of others? Because your view of the world is limited by your genes and experiences you’ve had and by integrating the perspectives of others you can enlarge your senses. 上一页 下一页 Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 1. the hot ticket for success (L. 18) 走向成功的通行证 在十年前, 大学毕业证书是美好事业前 程的通行证。如今,它已经今非昔比了。 Ten years ago, a university diploma was the hot ticket for a bright prospect in career. Now, it is different. Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 2. to embrace a highly personal practice (L. 19) 积极进行自我训练 1. The mother embraced her baby tenderly. 2. You’d be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as good as this. 3. The term “mankind” embraces men, women and children. Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 3. in the act of doing (sth.) (L. 24) while doing something 正在做……时 The thief was apprehended (by the police) in the act of stealing a car. 窃贼在偷汽车时当场被(警 察)抓住。 Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 4. to go with the interpretation (L. 35) 照着那种理解去做 go with sb. go with sth. go with the stream go with the current go with the times go with the tide Part III (Para.9-12): the mechanisms of the mind. A. Questions B. Language points Passage Reading Questions for Part Three 1. What does our ability to think and reason involve according to the author? The author believes that our ability to think and reason is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body’s universe of cells and we think with our hearts, brains, muscles, blood and bones. 上一页 下一页 Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 1. to pull sb. away from doing sth. (L. 43) 妨碍某人做某事 妨碍这个学生进步的正是他的不良习惯和 缺乏毅力。 What pulls the student away from moving forward is nothing but his bad habit and lack of perseverance. Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 2. to keep at sth. (L. 43) 继续做某事;坚持干某事 Keep at it! 别松劲! If you keep at what you are striving for, you will finally make it. Detailed Study: Expressions & Patterns 3. to shape one’s senses (L. 48) 影响着人的感知 正是希腊人影响了西方人的思维。 It was the Greeks who shaped the thinking of Western man. Part IV (Para.13):Without EQ, academic training alone is worth less and less. A. Questions Passage Reading Questions for Part Three 1. 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. 上一页 下一页 Contents • New Words • Structure and writing device • Passage Reading • Post-reading • Assignments Revision: 第六感 a sixth sense 聪明但缺乏灵活性的人 intelligent but inflexible people 封面故事 a cover story 整理 sort through 真正尺度 the true measure 走向成功的通行证 积极进行自我训练 正在进行 注意到 the hot ticket for success embrace a highly personal practice in the act of take note of Revision: 留出时间 set aside time 从多个角度解释 assign many interpretations to 照着理解去做 go with the interpretation 综合别人的观点 有争议的事件 思考;考虑 已建立的思维方式 坚持 激发脑部反映 integrate the perspectives of others a controversial event reflect on the established wiring of one’s brain keep at trigger a brain response Revision: 影响感知 一分为二 生理定性 世界观 情感成熟 自我了解 学术培训 shape one’s sense be cut into half biologically wired world view emotional maturity self-knowledge academic training Summary EQ, not IQ is thought to be the true measure _______ of human intelligence. When making judgement, a sixth sense is involved, which is a high __________ performance of the mind. A modest proposal is put forward to cultivate EQ:embrace ________ a highly personal practice aimed at adaptive skills: raising improving four _________ ____________, using ________. consciousness imagery Considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative integrating the perspectives of response and ____________ others. Though sometimes it is not easy to do so, 下一页 Summary just _______ keep at it, then one will make it, because it is possible to _______ change one’s world view. IQ is just like the hardware _________ of a person to get academic training, while EQ is like the __________ software to be emotionally mature and self__________ acknowledged. suggests an ability to easily A high level of EQ _______ adapt to changes, to __________ understand other people’s ________ points of view and to relate ___________ well to others as individuals. 上一页 Contents • New Words • Structure and writing device • Passage Reading • Post-reading • Assignments Writing A letter 假如你是李明,你的朋友张宏来信咨询你的 毕业之后的计划,考研还是就业,请根据自 己的情况写封回信告知张宏你的态度,并说 明理由。