Issue.9Issue.94747

MarMar..23,201223,2012

P.P.7: Campus life7: Campus life

P.P.9: career9: career

Gal: not Gal: not a girl, not a girl, not yet a yet a womanwoman

Staying fit Staying fit and healthyand healthy

General Questions

Pre-reading Discussion

Detailed Study

Pre-reading Discussion

Are you worried about your weight? What do you think of keeping fit?

What are the reasons for college students’ sub health?

What exercise do you like?

Go over the passage in 3 minutes and answer the following questions concerning general comprehension.

Instruction

General Questions

1. What does report say about college students’ physical fitness?

2. What is the problem with female students in particular?

it’s lamentable

General Questions

More than 35 percent of women on campus are unhealthily slim.

3. Why do students avoid sports?

4. What is the consequence of lack of exercises?

Girls are afraid of becoming sweaty and messy. Boys are too busy with their online activities.

General Questions

It causes obesity and overweight and various diseases, and students are not healthy enough for their future job.

Detailed Study

Read the passage closely and find out the following sentences.

Instruction

It’s a scenic walk on an elegant slope from the main gate of Central China Normal University to the school of Chinese literature.

scenic : used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery ( 风景优美的 ) 。

Detailed Study

Ma reckons that students’ physical condition is degenerating

degenerate: grow worse

Detailed Questions

敌军士气低落，所以他们不能战斗。

The morale of the enemy soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.

Not only female students shun sports.

shun : avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

She was shunned by her former friends after she went astray

Detailed Study

她偏离正道后 , 从前的朋友都回避她。

Zhang Yichang, 21, a junior at Guangzhou University, stays in his dorm almost all day. Skipping meals and staying up late is his regular lifestyle. dark

skip: intentionally fail to attend

Detailed Study

他在开学之初就开始逃课。 He began to skip

classes at the beginning of a new term.

I am not a geek

geek: a person with an unusual or odd personality ( 极客，奇客 )

Detailed Study

　“极客”是来自英文“ Geek”一词的翻译，又译作“奇客”。以前是对那些残忍的马戏表演者和令人厌恶的不食人间烟火的计算机癖的老式称谓我还认识到了集体的力量 。现在多用来形容智商高，但是爱情商很低的男生，拥有超群的智力，善于钻研但不懂与人交往。

Read the short passage and answer these questions

1. What did french government do about using “mademoiselle”?

2. What is the difference between “girl”and  “woman”?

This word is forbidden from government document.

General Questions

“gril “ brings to mind children while “woman” has weight and indicates maturity.

3. What do people usually call males between “boy” and “ man” ？

4. What do woman call their friends?

gal

General Questions

lady

How would you address your female friends if they are in their early 20s?

Thank you!