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So my suggestion is to take some time off your work and go back to visit your parents and friends. Consider changing a job which requires fewer hours so that you may have time to make friends. You may also try to take classes on a subject you are interested in or pursue a hobby. You are sure to find life worth living. Yours, Abby
Reading Focus
The Hidden Side of Happiness
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Starting out And it‘s not necessarily boredom itself that‘s deadly. Most probably, according to the study, it‘s the fact that being bored often leads to _____________________ such smoking, unhealthy habits overeating, drinking, and abusing drugs.
Unit 1 Living a Full Life Unit 1
Living A Full Life
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Starting out Reading Focus Reading More Practical Translation Focused Writing Final Project
Starting out—Task 1
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Reading Focus – Global Understanding
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Reading Focus – Global Understanding
Background Information
Watch a clip from The Pursuit of Happyness in which Christopher’s wife just left him. Discuss with your partner how people should pursue happiness.
Starting out—Task 2
Task 2
Your best friend has recently been in low spirits ever since she was diagnosed with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)(慢性阻塞性肺病). She stays in bed most of the time and misses a lot of classes. She has nothing to do, and moreover wants to do nothing. How would you encourage her to cope with the disease with a positive attitude?
Starting out—Task 3 Dear John, I used to live a life just like yours. I can see myself in you when I finished my college and started my first job. I found a job as junior reporter for Chicago Daily so I moved from Houston to Chicago. I was working 18 hours a day in a place where I knew few people. My health finally broke down from too much work and poor diet. I stayed in hospital for two weeks. My parents came to Chicago and took care of me. After I was out of hospital, I quitted my job and moved back to Houston, where I found a job in a local newspaper. I visited my parents often and I had time to hang around with my friends whom I had known for years as well as those I newly made. I felt happy finally.
Starting out—Task 3
Task 3
Read the letter from John Doe and, with your partner, discuss how you could help him.
Dear Abby, I feel like I almost can‘t breathe now. I work a ridiculous amount of hours and I don‘t have time to relax. My parents live 1,400 miles away and I am here all by myself. I have no time to make friends. Sometimes I feel I don‘t even have a life. What should I do? Kind regards, John
Starting out
The researchers found that those who‘d said that in the previous month they were bored at more than work were _____________________ twice as likely ________________ as other workers to die of a heart problem over the follow-up period. claimed to Workers who ______________ be interested ______________ in their jobs were less likely to die prematurely（过早地）. Now, this doesn‘t mean that feeling bored every once in a while ____________________________ will kill you. We‘re talking about chronic boredom, as in being bored all the time.
Starting out—Task 2
Here are some suggestions from experts that will enable you to retain (or take back) much of your independence and improve your quality of life. • Don‘t isolate yourself...reach out to others • Stay as physically active as you can • Manage your breathing • Stick with your treatment plan
Other studies have linked boredom and depression ______________________ –a disease known often to lead to poor health. Does this mean that being engaged and interested–in other words, the opposite of leads to better health bored–_____________________? Maybe. If not being bored means being physically active and adopting good dietary and exercise habits,then it certainly can‘t hurt.
Starting out
Listen to the passage “Bored to Death” and fill out the blanks.
We‘ve all been bored from time to time. sometimes, when we‘re really at loose ends（无所 适从）, we might even say we‘re ―bored to death‖ so bored I could‖die or ―_____________________! We don‘t really mean it, of course. But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it ________ seems _______________ possible literally to be bored to death. Researchers in England looked at surveys done in the mid 1980s–several thousand questionnaires civil servants filled out by London ____________________ about their jobs.