Unit 6 The pace of life
Unit 6 The Pace of Life
Texta Old father Time becomes a terror 1. Objectives 2. Background 3. Discussion 4. Text structure 5. Language Study 6. Content Questions 7. Essay Writing
Text A: Old Father Time becomes a Terror 1. Objectives 2. Background 3. Discussion 4. Text Structure 5. Language Study 6. Content Questions 7. Essay Writing
Objectives The students will be able to 1. Learn the main idea and structure of the text 2. Learn to distinguish supporting facts from opinions and to use both in their own wrIting, 3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text
Objectives The students will be able to: 1. Learn the main idea and structure of the text; 2. Learn to distinguish supporting facts from opinions, and to use both in their own writing; 3. Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;
Background Richard Tompkins consumer industries editor of the financial Times where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company,s London headquarters where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends. Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen
Background • Richard Tompkins: consumer industries editor of the Financial Times, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1983. He is currently based at the company’s London headquarters, where he leads team of journalists covering the consumer goods sector and writes about consumer trends, Tomkins was born in Walsall, England, in 1952. His formal education ended at the age of seventeen
Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver a restaurant cashier. a civil servant and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in 1978 to hitchhike around the world and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter
• Before becoming a journalist, he was a casual laborer, a factory worker, a truck driver, a restaurant cashier, a civil servant, and an assistant private secretary to a government minister. He left government service in1978 to hitchhike around the world, and on returning to the U.K. in 1978, joined a local newspaper as a trainee reporter