lesson 12Where Do Dreams Come from?

Step 1. Halloween, October 31stHalloween (All Hailows’ Eve), a night time festival, is held mostly by childre

n rather than by adults. It is a favorite holiday for children who play the important part while their pa

rents just support. Children are helped to prepare their costumes, as fantastic as possible and on Halloween they try to frighten their parents and other adults by their disguised masks. They try by every means to be spooky ghosts, little hobgoblins, ghoulish witches and so on.

Step 2 reading tasks before coming to the text

get prepared for the following questions Understanding main pointsRead the text about how business will be organized in the future1. which of the statements give the best summary of the ideas ?a. new communications technologies enable information to be shared instantly across the world.b. in the future most people will be self-employed or will work as freelancers. c. companies are having to restructure due to developments in electronic communications

Step 3 read the text1. Prepare for the vocabulary Ask the students to read through the words loudly1） Explain some of the terms:accelerate: to move or happen more quicklycash flow: movement of money into and out of a company as goods are bought and soldcoalition: the action of uniting into one bodyefficient: producing a satisfactory result without wasting time or energyequation: a statement that two expressions are equalfreelancer: self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common.

2） background information decentralized organizationrefers to those large commercial organizations in whichdecision-making is brought closer to the point of service or action.it occurs in many contexts in engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics, each of which could be said to study mass decision-making by groups too large to consult with each other very directly.open market

It is a general term which describes a condition of trading that is not limited to any area and person. in an open market, the market forces of supply and demand determine prices and allocate available supplies, without government convention.2. give the students ten minutes to read and understand the passage in a rough wayask Ss to give the general idea of the passage and try to find the keys to the questions in reading tasks A.3. explain the passage in details and ask Ss to make translations of some of the content.

Step 4 summarization and review 1. Ask the students to finish the following reading tasks understanding detailsmark these statements T or F1. there is a move towards decentralization of decision-making in many companies 2. many companies are now experiencing cash flow and similar financial problems3. no more than 10% of workers in the US work for the top 500 companies4. ABB and BP Amoco have sold many parts of their businesses 5. large organizations can save money by centralizing all transactions.6. computer companies have decentralized their decision making7. it is possible that eh shape and structure of companies will be very different in the future.