Unit Five
1. Lead-in
Movie Clip
Watch the following video and then do the exercise. You can find the interpretation of some words and phrases in "Word Bank".
    Book 6 Unit 5.mp4 (00:00 – 02:34)
Script
-    Oh, hello.
-    Oh, hello.
-    Hi, how are you?
-    Fine.
-    So do you ladies uh ...
-    Come here often?
-    Do I come here? I come here a bit. I'm here you know from time to time. Do you go to school yet?
-    Yep.
-    Yeah, that's it. So I think I had a class with you.
-    Oh, yeah? What class?
-    History.
-    Maybe.
-    Yes, I think that's what it was. You don't necessarily ... may not remember me. You know I like it here. It doesn't mean I go here. I'm a genius. I am very smart.
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    Hey.
-    Hey, how's it going? How are ya?
-    Good. How ya doing?
-    What class did you say that was?
-    History.
-    Just history. It must have been a survey course then.
-    Yeah, it was. It was surveys.
-    Right.
-    You should check it out. It's a good course. It'd be a good class.
-    How'd you like that course?
-    You know, frankly, I found that class, you know, rather elementary.
-    Elementary. You know I don't doubt that it was. I uh I remember that class. It was ... um ... it was just between recess and lunch.
-    Clark, why don't you just go away?
-    Why don't you relax?
-    Why don't you go away?
-    I'm just having fun with my new friend. That's all.
-    Are we gonna have a problem?
-    No no no no. There's no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities especially in the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capitalist.
-    Let me tell you something, all right?
-    Hang on a sec. You're a first-year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're gonna be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania are entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year. You're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
-    Well as a matter of fact, I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of ...
-    "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth." You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County", page 98, right?
    Yeah, I read that, too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or is that your thing? You come into a bar. You re
ad some obscure passage and then pretend you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend?
(From Good Will Hunting)
Word Bank
1.elementary:
introductory, fundamental
e.g. I'm only familiar with the subject at an elementary level.
2.recess:
a pause from doing something, break
e.g. The students have a 15-minute mid-morning recess.
3.colony:
the country or district settled or colonized  殖民地
4.modality:
a particular method or procedure
e.g. The students are familiar with the traditional modalities of representing time and space.
5.agrarian:
relating to farming or farmers 
e.g. China used to be a typically agrarian country.
6.regurgitate:
repeat after memorization
e.g. a sort of的用法For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information.
7.predicate (up)on:
involve as a necessary condition of consequence
e.g. Solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well.
8.plagiarize:
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech
e.g. He accused other scientists of plagiarizing his research.
9.pawn something off:
to persuade someone to buy or accept something of low quality
e.g. The man tried in vain to pawn off an old bicycle to some girls.
Exercise
1.Clark interferes in the conversation because he wants to ___________.
A. discuss a problem with the boy        B. impress the girl
C. show off his history knowledge        D. embarrass the boy
2.It seems Clark is ___________.
A. reciting someone's words
B. pretending that he knows more than he does
C. seeking a fight

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