FOREIGH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY,Less is more,6,UNIT,Section A,2,Objectives,Less is more?,Door closer, are you?,Door closer, are you?,Door closer, are you?,1. As far as choices in our daily life are concerned, have you ever been troubled with such dilemma: to keep all or to give up some?,Just as all people have to make decisions in their everyday lives, college students are always faced with the dilemma of making right choices. Faced with an abundance of options to choose from, they cant bear the pain to lose any opportunity and have a strong desire to keep all the options open. They try to avoid such an emotional loss, and would rather pay the high cost to keep all the doors of opportunity open.,2. What is the proper way to deal with this dilemma? Is more always better than less?,Evidences show that people feel less happy and more depressed when given an overabundance of choice. The tendency to keep all our doors of choices open might have damaged our life, and we can get greater pleasure and more satisfaction by focusing our energy and attention on fewer options and things. More is not necessarily better in life. We should close some doors in order to allow for the right windows of opportunity and happiness to open.,Task1. Listen to a talk about why people are often irrational. Based on what you hear, match the questions with the answers by placing a letter next to the number.,1 ( ) According to the speaker, how can people behave in a rational way? 2 ( ) What are the consequences of peoples irrational behavior? 3 ( ) What has MIT Professor Ariely discovered? 4 ( ) What is the example in the talk regarding irrational behavior? 5 ( ) What does the speaker say about this irrational behavior?,Task1. Listen to a talk about why people are often irrational. Based on what you hear, match the questions with the answers by placing a letter next to the number.,A People tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. B People should act according to logic and reason required in a situation. C It causes problems to themselves as well as to others. D He doesnt think this irrational behavior is always intentional. E If a person knows someone suffers from a disease, he will feel he suffers from the same disease.,Task1. Listen to a talk about why people are often irrational. Based on what you hear, match the questions with the answers by placing a letter next to the number.,1 ( ) According to the speaker, how can people behave in a rational way? 2 ( ) What are the consequences of peoples irrational behavior? 3 ( ) What has MIT Professor Ariely discovered? 4 ( ) What is the example in the talk regarding irrational behavior? 5 ( ) What does the speaker say about this irrational behavior?,B,C,A,E,D,1. In your opinion, what is an irrational behavior? Give some examples.,It is an action or opinion based on inadequate use of reason and logic: Once a price is established in their minds, they will compare other similar items with this price Buy products they dont need just because they get something for free in the transaction. Do something just because some other people are doing the same thing.,Task 2:Listen to the talk again and answer the two questions,2. What do you think may cause peoples irrational behavior?,Ignorance People can be totally unaware of a situation before forming their own views and judgments. Emotions People take offense or get angry before the situation actually occurs. Stress It creates feeling of anger, irritation and frustration. Blind beliefs They are too conscious about society and its reactions to them.,Task 2: Listen to the talk again and answer the two questions,Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both _ your attention. you can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be given up. But you know the future is _the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left behind. Thus you are caught in a fix and feel sad. How come that nice opportunities and _ should gather around all at once.,Listen to a short passage named “Another door” and fill in the missing information.,deserving,unpredictable,To be continued,brilliant ideas,It may happen that your life changes _ on your preference of one alternative to the other. In fact that is what life is like: we are often faced with the two opposite aspects of a thing which are both_ like newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are _ another.,dramatically,desirable,To be continued,engaged in,Listen to a short passage named “Another door” and fill in the missing information.,The former and the latter give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosophers _ “When one door shuts, another opens in life.“So a _or passive choice may not be a bad one. Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life storm _ us, t