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Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to improve their intensive listening skills by finishing exercises.
Students will be able to master some language points during the process of analyzing the text.
Students will be able to enhance their cultural awareness by reading news.
Predict
‘Quiet quitting’ becoming common in workplaces
From the title below, what is the passage mainly about?
注:标题中省略了谓语动词is
Listen for main idea
The passage mainly talks about
a new form of ______________and the __________its emergence.
working culture
reason for
Listen for gaps
A new (1) ______________ has been quietly spreading around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are (2) ______________________________of "quiet quitting". This emerging phenomenon entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as follows: "Quiet quitting is the (3) ____________________ to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No (4) _______________, no stepping outside your designated obligations, (5) ____________________. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate (6) __________________ unreasonable pressures."
culture of work
increasingly embracing the concept
process of coming to work
offers of overtime
no going the extra mile
what are perceived as
Listen for gaps
Quiet quitting has increased in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing (7) ________________________. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and (8) ________________ job burnout. Workers are jettisoning(抛弃) unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces. They do (9) ________________ and leave at five on the dot. Some employers are responding with (10) _____________________"quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this (11) __________________, disregarding employees' ideas a