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Unit 2 Mixed feelings
Inside
view
Conversation1
Kate
：
Come in.
Hey, Janet.
Janet
：
Hi Kate, are you busy?
Kate
：
Yes,
I
’
m just doing an essay. But
it
’
s great to see you.
So what
’
s new?
Janet
：
Well, nothing much.
Kate
：
You look a bit fed up.
What
’
s bugging you?
Janet
：
Well, I had a phone call
from my parents and it made me
feel
homesick. It happens every
time they call, and it gets me down.
Kate
：
I
’
m
sorry
to
hear
that.
I
know
how
you
feel.
I
love
speaking
to my mum and dad, but I
always feel miserable after the call.
Janet
：
My dad
doesn
’
t say much, and I want
to speak to him,
but I wish I knew what
to say.
Kate
：
Don
’
t
let it get to you. My dad
doesn
’
t say much on the
phone either. I call, he answers
the
phone,
and
says,
“Hi,
I’ll
pass
you
to
your
mother.”
It’s
really irritating.
Janet
：
But I miss
him and my mother a lot, and I like to hear
his voice.
Kate
：
Just tell him what
you
’
re up to.
Janet
：
Sometimes
I feel as if I made a mistake leaving home
and coming to Oxford.
Sometimes I feel like a moody teenager.
Kate
：
Try not to worry about it,
Janet. It
’
s normal to feel
like
that. I understand how you feel,
but
I bet everything will
be fine next term. You’ll get used to it. Hey,
why don’t you do what I do?
Janet
：
What
’
s that?
Kate
：
When
my
dad
calls,
I
ask
him
for
more
money!
He
usually says no, but at
least I get
to hear his
voice!
Janet
：
Maybe.
I
’
m sorry to take up your
time, Kate, but I must
go now. Bye!
Kate
：
Wait a minute
…
!
Conversation2
Kate
：
I think I
may have upset Janet last night.
Mark
：
What
happened?
Kate
：
She came to see me. I was
busy doing an essay but I was
really
pleased to see her. She
’
d
had a call from home, and said
she was
feeling homesick.
Mark
：
Poor kid! It
must be tough on you guys, living so
far
away from home.
Kate
：
I tried to
make her laugh, told her not to worry about it,
and
that
it
was
normal
to
feel
miserable.
Suddenly
she
looked
miserable, and then
she got up and said,
“
I must
go now
”
and
left
my
room.
It
was
really
sudden.
I
felt
as
if
I
’
d
said
something wrong.
Mark
：
Maybe
she
was
just
being
polite.
It
was
probably
because
she
realized
you
were
working
and
didn
’
t
want
to
disturb
you.
Kate
：
I just
wonder if
she found it difficult to talk about her
feelings with me. Maybe I
shouldn
’
t
have
tried
to
make
her
laugh?
Perhaps
she
thought
I
wasn’t
taking her seriously.
Mark
：
I
wouldn
’
t worry about it. Put
yourself in her shoes.
How would you
feel if you were a student at college in China?
Kate
：
I know.
That
’
s why I feel bad. If
only she had stayed
longer! I wish I
could have helped her more.
Janet
：
Hey,
everyone!
Mark
：
Hi Janet, you look
cheerful!
Janet
：
Yes,
I
’
ve just got my essay back.
I got an alpha minus!
Kate
：
What an amazing grade! Well
done.
Mark
：
I
’
m
really happy for you, Janet.
Janet
：
I feel on
top of the world!
Outside view
Sebastien
Hi.
I’m Sebastien. I’m from Germany. Um, the idea of
IQ of a
measure of your brain power has
been
around for a while, but
recently there’s been this new idea of
the EQ –
your emotional
quotient.
And
by
now,
it’
s
actually
almost
being
regarded
as
more important. If you look at it,
businesses will … Well, they
will
prefer employing people with great EQ. Well, of
course, IQ
cannot be disregarded, but
um, EQ does have its importance as
well. Uh, I believe that, um,
… I mean, people, most people will
have, um, their basic means of
communicating with other people.
Most
people
are
somewhat
socially
adept,
and
just
like
most
people
have,
you
know,
a
basic
general
knowledge.
But
then,
what I think really is
the difference between
IQ
and EQ, I mean, you can have a “brainiac”, and
they will be
great at most things they
do, but if you just can’t get along with
him, if you just can’t communicate with
him, I mean, you know,
he’s not really
that useful.
Kim
Hi. This is
Kim.
I’m originally from Korea, and I
was raised in
California. And today, we
are going to talk about the differences
between
IQ
and
EQ
–
IQ
meaning
your
intelligence,
EQ
meaning your emotions. Now, in … When I
was, when I was a
little, little boy in
Korea, I h
ad to take … I think I’d
taken like
two
or
three
IQ
tests
before
the
age
of
ten,
which
is
when
I
moved to California. So, I guess we
stress a lot of importance on
intelligence, on having great IQ
scores. But after I moved to the
States, I learnt how to associate with
people, and along the lines
that
this
word
EQ
came
up,
you
know,
emotional,
caring
about … It’s
basically how you deal with people, how
you make people feel, and
how people make you feel.
I think they’re equally as,
as important, but it see
ms that in the
Eastern world they kind of stress on
that a lot more back in the
days.
But
I
think
again,
you
know,
now
that
with
Internet
and