Unit 6 Risks

• “I am addicted to risks”…

Part I preparation

To know about risks

define risk:

use of risk: • at the risk of (n) / risk sth (v)• risky (adj)

brainstormWords about “risks”:AdventureAdventurous

VentureVenturous (one’s personality)

Danger Dangerous

Hazard hazardous

Challenge Challenging

Decision-makingChoices and consequences

There are risks concerning:

• life and death • Health • Safety• Money / finance• Property• Relationships• happiness

recommendation• Movie: 127 Hours (based on a true

story)

Chatting time

• E3: why would people like to take risks

• E1: risks in jobs

• E2: which activity is riskier

• Extra question: how can we meaasure the level of risks---refer to para 7 of ICR

After-class discussion: on risk consciousness

• Do you believe that holding a strong awareness of risk will benefit your life?

• Too much anxiety about the uncertainties in actions might withdraw people from coming up to creative solutions, while too weak awareness of risks leads to disasters repented for a lifetime, as some people say. What is your opinion about this contradiction?

Part II Reading Centered Activities

ICR: Risks and You

ACR: 1 Health risks 2Thrill Seeker

In-class reading

Risks and You

Pre-reading task

•New words•Read through the passage

•E1-2: P221-222

Discussion on the Key points

• Para 1• Define / explain “hypochondriac”. • What a hypochondriac would usually do? • Any examples?

• Para 1• Is the risk of disease the only thing that is

considered threat in life? Why?

• Para 2• What’s the similarity and difference between the

anxiety about the risks of life and hypochondria

• Para 3 • Illustrate “risks are almost always a matter

of probability rather than certainty. (L17)”

• Para 4• What can we do since “nothing we do is co

mpletely safe” (L29)?

Para 6,7• How do we measure the level of risk?

Case analysis:

• The number of people who die in automobile accidents per year: 25,000

• The number of people who die in in mine accidents and disaster per year: 300

• Number of people regularly ride in auto every year: 200,000,000• Number of people involved in mining: 700,000

• ---So which is riskier in this case ？ Riding in a car or mining? Explain your answer in details or with a ratio or fraction.

• ---so how could we know the level of risk of our actions, again? illustrate it with one more example in the text. ---suggestions & conclusion from the author

Para 8

• Explain Risk Management --Common sense & information about the characters

and degree of the risks we may be running

• (optional) with the knowledge of risk management, think twice before taking actions that might involve risks by reducing them to a ratio or fraction, like when you are considering eating street food, take high-speed rail or airplane, etc..

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E1-2: P221-222E1-2: P221-222

Language

Sentences (1)

• And from these threats come questions that we must pose to ourselves. (L7)

• --- 完全倒装：

More Examples:• In this chapter will be found a partial answer.• There was a sudden gust of wind and away went his h

at.

• --当句首状语为表示地点的介词词组，谓语动词为 go, come 等表示位置转移的动词时，通常用全句倒装。

Sentences (2)

• In the case just discussed, we would find the relative safety of car travel and coal mining by dividing the numbers of lives lost in each by the number of people participating in each. (L57-69)

• Relative words: numerator; denominator

Sentences (3)

• At some time or other, all of us have played the part of a hypochondriac, imagining that we have some terrible disease on the strength of very minor symptoms. (L1-3)

• There are risks, often potentially serious ones, associated with every hobby we have, every job we take, every food we eat—in other words, with every action. (L29-31)

Sentences (4)• But what if you get hit from the side and end

up trapped inside the vehicle, unable to escape because of a damaged seat belt mechanism? (L20-23)

• What if you should fail? • What if it is true? • What if he doesn't agree? • What if…?

Words 1

• Hypochondria .n Hypochondriac .n

• Symptom

• Physician （内科 ) 医生）

• --a person • --a mental condition

• * Surgeon 外科医生 (surgery 外科学；外科手术 )

Words 2

• Fraction 分数 ----numerator ---- denominator • * decimal fraction 小

数• Ratio 比率，比例• * percentage

• 2/3

• 0.66

• 2:3• 66%

Words 3

• accordingly adv • definitive ad• exposure noun• miner noun• multiply verb• neurotic (n. 神经症患者 )• noun• partial adj• probability noun• risky / riskiness adj/noun

• According adj• Definite ad• expose verb• mine noun/verb• multiplication noun• neuron (n. 神经元 , 神经细

胞 ) * neuro-system noun• part noun• probably adv• risk noun

phrases

• End up + with sth / doing / done / adv / adj…• -If you don't work hard, you'll end up nowhere. • -They all ended up puzzled. • -The hooligan ended up dead in a car accident. • -He ended up as head of the firm.

• Sth + in question • Reduce … to

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After class Reading Passage 1: Health RisksPassage 2: Thrill Seeker

Passage 1: Health Risks para3-4• Between taking a risk in getting AIDS and cancer which i

s induced by smoking or radiation, which should one choose (suppose one has to)? --Para 3

• What would be the choice between doing sth likely to kill us today versus doing sth likely to kill us in two decades? –para 4

---which has the longer incubation period (L26)? (a likely time lag between taking a risk and suffering its co

nsequence-L23-24) ---the choice should be “the lesser of the two evils” (L30)---fatal / catastrophic

Para5-6

• try to get clear about the concept / idea “YPLL” (para 5)

YPLL: years of potential life lost

-- How many YPLLs are lost if one at 40 gets a disease which would take his life in 5 years, while ptentially he would live for 80 years?

---Which takes more YPLLs generally, a disease that tends to strike the elderly (e.g. heart disease) in much proportions or one that strike somewhat earlier (e.g. cancer)?

Accordingly, the medical research on curing which disease should draw larger funding? –para 6

Difficult sentence 1

• The concept of YPLLs has an important, if controversial, influence on issues in health care economies. L47

If controversial=if it is a controversial influence

e.g. Sometimes, that standard is quite different, if not im

possible, to achieve.

Difficult sentence 2• The assessment of the seriousness of a ris

k changes, depending upon whether we ask how many lives it claims or how many YPLLs it involves.

对一种危险严重程度的估算会有差异，还要看我们是关注他所引起的死亡人数还是它所导致的 YPLL 的多少。

Difficult sentence 3• Other things being equal, the sooner a risk causes d

amage or death, the more that risk is to be avoided. 在其他因素都相等的情况下，危险所导致的损害或死亡来

得越快，人们就越应该回避这种危险。

E.g. ：• Her hands being tied, Lucy dialed 110 with her lips an

d therefore saved her own life. 翻译：• 相继有病人在几天内死去， Dr. House 仍旧不见人影。谁

也不知道他到底在搞什么。

Words

P226-229

After class Reading Passage 1: Health RisksPassage 2: Thrill Seeker

Passage 2: Thrill Seeker• Para 1-5Find out all the adventure-related

activities mentioned List all the possible dangers these

activities may cause to people.

Passage 2: Thrill SeekerPara 6What lessons do you learned from the

information offered in this part?

Passage 2: Thrill Seeker• Para 7-8• Find out all the reasons that can

explain people’s desire to experience adventure and a sense of danger

Increasing opportunityThe hope to expand horizonsA short cut to life experience (adrenalin buzz)To escape mundane lifestyle

Passage 2: Thrill Seeker• Para 9-16• Connect the following points with your

understanding of the aforementioned paragraphs, then make your points based on the information in the text in a few sentences.

• the overly sanitized, comfortable life• the American sense of adventure• people need an element of risk in their lives• a basic human need for novelty• living life to the maximum, living for now

Part III Further development

• Language enhancementE1: enrich your word powerE5: (optional)

• SpeakingE2-E4: (optional)

Part IV Translation & Part IV Translation &

WritingWriting Part IV Translation & Part IV Translation &

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