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Unit 5 Know Your Place
I Active Reading: The Lonely American
ⅰWarming up
1. Work in groups of three or four and discuss the questions.
1 Who is the most social?
2 What is your idea of a social animal?
3 What is the most antisocial thing you ever did?
2. Look at the title of the passage and choose the meaning of a lonely person which is closest to your own idea.
(a) someone who has no friends
(b) someone who has no time for other people
(c) someone who finds it difficult to relate to other people
(d) someone who doesn’t like spending time in other people’s company
(e) someone who prefers new technology to real people
ⅱSkimming
◇Browse the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it.
◇Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 99.
Answer the questions.
1 How have the relationships that Americans have with their neighbors changed in recent years?
People used to feel they had to be actively nice to their neighbors and see them regularly, but now they try hard not to disturb their neighbors or take up their time.
2 In what way are Americans “pulled” as well as “pushed” to being isolated?
Americans are pulled (attracted) towards isolation by an image of themselves as self-reliant people able to stand on their own two feet, and pushed (forced) to it by lack of time to socialize.
3 How does being part of a social group affect people’s health?
It can make people live longer, handle stress better, have an effective immune system and suffer less from various undesirable health conditions.
4 Why is it important to recognize one’s loneliness?
Until the problem is noted and acknowledged, there can be no steps towards a solution.
5 Which are the small everyday choices which people make, and which can make them more or less isolated?
The examples given are all of choosing to interact with people directly (seeing and talking to them in a shop, talking on the phone, going out with a friend) or of avoiding that sort of contact (e-s
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