unit%205,1,Unit 5,Text 1 The Company Man,unit%205,2,Company man = workaholic,Workaholic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A workaholic is a person addicted to work. This addiction may be pleasurable to the victim or it may be burdensome and troubling. Workaholism is generally accepted as a disease. The problem is that workaholics believe that if they dont work, their world will collapse. Workaholics do not necessarily love their work or try to excel in their work. If a person thinks he or she is the only person capable of performing their work, he/she is most likely a workaholic. Although most workaholism is associated with a paying job, it can also be associated with people who excessively practice sports, music, art, blogging, wiki editing, etc. The term is often used inaccurately to describe an energetic person who devotes a lot of time to work even though that person has good relations with co-workers, takes pleasure in other non-remunerative activities, is well rested, and properly attends to family and social life. The condition is more accurately described when it becomes recognized by the victim or by others to be detrimental to family life or social relations within or outside of work. This may be due to the victims fatigue, poor relationships with non-addicted co-workers, or lack of time and energy devoted to family life, friends, hobbies, and other activities. The word itself is a play on alcoholism, created via back-formation. The term was first coined in 1971 by Wayne Oats in his book, Confessions of a Workaholic. It gained more widespread use in the 1990s, as the result of a wave of the self-help movement that centered around addiction, analogizing harmful social behaviors such as overwork to drug addiction, including addiction to alcohol. edit Workaholism in other cultures Japan is often portrayed as having a workaholic culture. Several Japanese workers die each year due to overwork. The Japanese term for death by overwork is karoshi. In cases where it can be proven that the cause of death was overwork, the family can seek compensation from the employer for its failure to intervene in the employees self-destructive behavior,unit%205,3,Pre-reading questions,What do you think is the life of a typical workaholic like? How important do you think work is to a person,unit%205,4,American Idioms美国习惯用语,Workaholic all of which mean having an abundance and often an excess of flesh. Charlie is not merely _ but downright _. Extremely/completely “a woman of robust frame though _, not _,unit%205,15,Paras. 7- 13,This part describes Phils role in his family. The following questions can be asked: 1) What did Phils wife mean when she answered, “I already have”? 2) Did his children know him well? 3) How many times is “He finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning” repeated in the essay？Why is it repeated,unit%205,16,Language work,Survive: to live longer than; to outlive My grandmother survived my grandfather by many years. marketable: wanted by purchasers or employers widow / widower / widow(vt) straighten out: to solve or settle; to remove difficulties (from sth) or the doubt or ignorance (in sbs mind) eg. We need someone capable of straightening out all the confusion. - I was then muddled about the registration procedures. Luckily, she came in time to straighten me out,unit%205,17,Paras. 14 16,This is the end of the essay. After the cause of Phils death being restated, the author goes on to report the company presidents inquiry for his successor. Consider the following questions: 1) How is irony used in language and in juxtapositions of image? 2) Why does the essay end with the question the company president asked,unit%205,18,Language work,Inquiry : a request for help or information; an investigation,unit%205,19,Turn to the DISC,unit%205,20,Key to excercises,Text comprehension 1. B,unit%205,21,Structural analysis of the Text,By mixing some unusually short sentences with the long ones, the author varies their weight and achieves emphasis and impact. For example, in Para. 3, the short sentence “Phil knew that.” follows two long sentences. This helps avoid monotony in narration and emphasizes Phils awareness of the cutthroat competition,unit%205,22,Rhetorical features,Para. 9 Para. 10 Para. 11,unit%205,23,unit%205,24,unit%205,25,unit%205,26