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Text B Text Analysis
2. We are often cautioned against judging a book by its cover. What does it imply when it comes to making a judgment of somebody?
Pessimism vs. optimism
Imagine you divided everyone in the world into two psychological groups. You put all the optimists on one side and all the pessimists on the other (let’s leave the realists aside for now). Amongst the optimists the conversation would all be about fantastic plans for the future. Meanwhile the pessimists are having what might seem to the optimists like a depressing discussion. They’re worrying about all the things that might go wrong. They’re worried that even the things they have will be taken away from them by some cruel twist of fate.
It implies that people are not always what they seem, that surface appearances are deceptive. People shouldn’t be judged by how they look but be judged by their actions.
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Text B Text Analysis
3. What message does the author want to convey through a host of examples listed in the text？
The author wants to convey to readers that people, at all times, tend to form a quick impression of others based only on a quick “snapshot” of information and that they are programmed by evolution to respond differently to people with different features. For example, they may respond gently to infantile features so that real babies or adults with baby faces are treated with tender care.
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Text B Text Analysis
4. Do Task 2/ Critical Reading and Thinking/ Text B in groups of 4-5 to discuss whether it’s almost impossible not to judge an individual by their appearance in today’s society.
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Unit Objectives
6. Researching • Independently locate and study a variety of resources (articles, books, videos, etc.) to know more about the study of psychology 7. Academic language and discourse • Know what is collocation • Acquire some specialized vocabulary in psychology • Understand the differences between comparison and contrast • Comprehend stylistic differences between formal and informal English and acquire some formal expressions
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Unit Objectives
3. Listening
• Understand important supporting details
4. Speaking • Make a clear, concise and reliable argument
5. Writing • Know the basic elements and structure of the introduction section of a research paper.
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Text A In-depth analysis
2. Have a group discussion about the two questions in Task 2/ Points for discussion.
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Text B Text Analysis
2. Reading
• Summarize the main ideas of a text and identify essential supporting points • Understand difficult sentences (e.g., sentences with formal words or expressions) • Identify comparison and contrast
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Text A In-depth analysis
1. Contribute as much as possible what you know about the following: • optimism • pessimism
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Text A Supplementary information
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Text A Supplementary information
Over the years psychologists have examined many aspects of pessimism and optimism. There’s good news for all. There are some advantages to optimism like it seems to make people feel better about life. But there are also advantages for pessimism as thinking the worst helps some pessimists cope better with the world. However, we should be less concerned with which is “better” or which camp is larger and more interested in why people see the world in such different ways in the first place.
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Text A Lead-in
Listen twice to a talk on what psychologists do and fill in the blanks with the exact words you’ve heard. Share your answers with your fellow classmates.
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Unit Objectives
1. Professional Knowledge
• Get acquainted with some important psychological concepts( e.g. optimist, pessimist, personality, character traits ,etc.)
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Academic English — An Integrated Course
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Unit Contents
Unit objectives
Text A Text B Text C
Academic language and discourse Listening Speaking Writing
1. the English idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover”
The very common English idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a metaphorical phrase which means “don’t determine the worth of something based on its appearance”. It is probably the most common expression used in English to convey attitudes against vanity. Another commonly used expression with similar meaning is “all that glitters in not gold”, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can apply to persons, places, or things that promise to be more than they really are.