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Unit One
Lead-in 1. Movie Clip 2. Quotes
1. Movie Clip
Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions.
1. What is Ingrid’s first New Year’s resolution? Did she accomplish it?
Her first New Year’s resolution is to quit her job. Yes, she did. 2. Why did Ingrid buy the man for the whole day?
Because she wanted him to help make her other New Year’s resolutions come true by midnight.
Discussion:
Why do New Year’s resolutions rarely work? In your opinion, how can we succeed in achieving them?
(This is an open question.)
Script
（From New Year’s Eve）
- All right. Working on those resolutions, huh? - No.
- Okay. I have a delivery here for Mr. Jonathan Cox. - Do you work here?
- No. I work for a courier(快递员) service. I’ve been delivering packages to you for about, I don’t know, a year now. But I think this is maybe the first time you’ve ever looked me in the eye. How are you doing?
- Sorry. That’s actually an old resolution. Make more eye contact.
- So those were New Year’s resolutions, huh? Looks like a long list. You gotta get on it. - I don’t know, maybe next year.
- Whoa. Jeez! Are you serious? That is a hot ticket. - Really?
- It’s amazing. They have the best food, the best music. They have so many single girls. And it’s a masquerade（化妆舞会）, so you don’t even have to worry about their faces. You kind of just, you know, use your imagination. If anybody tries to kick you out, or even asks who you are, you just straight-up lie. What are they gonna do? It’s brilliant. It’s like Facebook, but real.
- I remember who you are now.
- Right, exactly. Anyways, I would give my left... Well, maybe next year. - Ms. Withers? Did you call in a delivery of something? - Ingrid.
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- Ingrid.
- And actually, I’m your next job. I bought you for the day.
- Bought me for the day, huh? Oh, Ms. Withers. I think I should be offended（得罪，冒犯）, but I’m just too intrigued（好奇的，被迷住的）.
- My New Year’s resolutions. I just took care of the first one. - You quit your job? All right.
- If you can make the rest of these come true by midnight, you get these.
- For me? Holy shi... Whoa. Whoa, okay. Put these down. Put these down. Don’t flash those around. Everybody can see them. Seriously, You called the right guy. I’m in. Let me see No. Two. What is it? Whew. Go to Bali. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. You wanna save a life. Are you kidding me? It’s physically impossible. I don’t understand what you’re talking about. All right? I don’t understand what you want me to do here. - Use your imagination.
- We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
- You know, you don’t have to sit like that. You can put your legs around me, or you can hold onto me. - No, I’m okay. - All right.
- This is it. This is as close to the ball dropping as I can get you. Hey, good luck with that last one, all right?
- No. I figured that was a long shot going in.
- A long shot? What are you talking about? Going to Bali? That was kind of a long shot. - Let’s get this out of here, okay?
- Man, I don’t even know whose this is, bro. I’m just saying. - Thanks. Make a list of your own. Don’t wait as long as I did. - Pow, pow, shwing. - Thank you. Mm. - Goodbye. - Goodbye.
- Have a great time.
- You too. Happy new year, Ingrid.
2. Quotes
Read the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year’s resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.
— Peter Singer
No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.
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— Suze Orman I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn’t be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year’s resolution is not to bark back.
— Tucker Carlson My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
— Nia Vardalos If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
— Cyril Cusack May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.
— Joey Adams I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.
— Henry Moore Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
—Eric Zorn I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
—Ana?s Nin
Text I. Text I 1. Pre-Reading Questions 2. General Reading 3. Background Notes 4. Text 5. Comments on the Text 6. Exercises II. Text II 1. Text 2. Comprehension Text I
1. Pre-Reading Questions
The hero of the story, who is married and has four children, is talking about his New Year’s Resolution in the text. In the first paragraph, he says “This year it’s going to be different”.
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Why does he say so? What sort of resolutions did he make in the previous years? How do his New Year’s resolutions for this year differ from previous ones? Make a few guesses.
For your reference:
When a person makes New Year’s resolutions, he makes up his mind to do or not to do certain things in the coming year. Of course, different people make different New Year’s resolutions. For example, a student may decide to work harder at his studies and not go to the cinema so often; a teacher may decide to improve his/her teaching; a heavy smoker may decide to stop smoking altogether. Some people may be able to carry out their New Year’s resolutions, but some may not. For most people, it’s often easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to carry them out.
2. General Reading
You are given five minutes to read the text rapidly once to get the main idea.
Now decide which of the following statements best sums up the main idea. Put a tick by it.
__ 1. Some of his family members were pleased while others were not when the writer tried
to please everybody in the family on New Year’s Day.
__ 2. The writer tried to be a better husband and a better father in the new year, and his
family members appreciated this.
√ 3. The writer carried out his New Year’s resolutions faithfully to improve himself, but the
results all went contrary to his expectations. Key
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3. Background Notes
(1) escapement（卡子，擒纵机）
An escapement is a device in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to
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