Practice Always Makes Perfect The Company Man Unit Five

Practice Always Makes Perfect Discussion before class Who can be classified as a company man? What is the lifestyle of a company man around you? Can you give some examples? What do you think of the lifestyles? Are these lifestyles a must? What will you do if you become a company man in the future?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Global reading Who is this man? What happened to him? According to the text, what kind man he is? What is the implication of author’s writing this article?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph one Words and phrases work to death Question: What does “finally and precisely” imply? to make yourself/sb. work, especially very hard e.g.: She works herself too hard.

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph two Words and phrases die of acquaintance instantly workaholic classic Questions: Why everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew the reason of death instantly? What does it imply? What does the last sentence mean to you?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph three Words and phrases on his day off conceivably move to the top spot Questions: Once again, “finally and precisely” appear in this paragraph, what does the author want to emphasize by saying this? “if the president died or retired soon enough”, what does the author want to tell us?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph four Words and phrases: but the executives extracurricular interests monthly think …that way (be) overweight (by) Questions: What can you know about executives from the first sentence? What does the sentence “he worked like the Important People” mean to you? Is a monthly golf game extracurricular interest?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph five Questions: What’s the difference on weekend?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph six Questions: How is the relationship between him and his subordinates? What do the last two sentences imply?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph seven Words and phrases: Survivor be survived by marketable skills mothering Questions: What kind of woman is his wife? What does the wife want to tell others when she said “I already have”?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph eight Questions: What does this paragraph mean?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph nine Questions: Why do you think the author mentioned twice “dearly beloved”? What is the purpose of the child going around the neighborhood? Why were the neighbors embarrassed?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph ten Questions: How is the relationship between the girl and her father?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph eleven-twelve Words and phrases: stay in grass and food grab at (his father) board Questions: How is the relationship between the boy and her father?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph thirteen Words and phrases: the deceased mean much to be hard to replace look sb. in one’s eye bitterness straighten out stock option Questions: How did the widow feel when she heard the president’s word?

Practice Always Makes Perfect Paragraph fourteen-sixteen Words and phrases: a heart-attack natural pick out lineup replacement make inquiry about Questions: Is Phil the only example around us? Why was no one really surprised?