Unit 6 Learning to Work Together [0:5.84]Listen and Respond [0:8.63]Be a Team Player

[0:11.12]If you really wish to succeed in life, it is very important to be a team player.

[0:16.87]For example, in a basketball game, Michael Jordan is a great player,

[0:21.82]but he still has to cooperate well with his team members to win a game,

[0:26.38]because every member of his team has a very specific role [0:30.22]and every member of the team is vital to the success of the team. [0:34.75]If one player does not play well, the team will lose the game. [0:39.62]Of course, the concept of teamwork applies to more than just sports.

[0:44.54]In the workplace and in school, working together is also an important element for success.

[0:51.34]In the workplace, it is important to be thought of as a team player,

[0:55.83]for no one person can build a railroad or manage an airline. [1:0.59]In today’s world most companies are using team concepts to run their business.

[1:6.92]Success in college can also depend on teamwork.

[1:10.48]Lab work and group projects are just some of the experiences requiring good cooperation with others.

[1:18.69]Human beings are social creatures.

[1:21.12]Like it or not, we are all team players.

Unit 7 Adversity

[0:4.50]Listen and Respond

[0:6.95]Carrots, Eggs and Coffee Beans [0:13.10]A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her.

[0:19.41]She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up.

[0:24.85]Her father, a cook, took her to the kitchen.

[0:29.72]He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. [0:35.16]When the water came to a boil, he placed carrots in one of them, [0:40.19]eggs in the second pot, and coffee beans in the third.

[0:44.66]His daughter waited impatiently and wondered what he was doing. [0:50.12]In about twenty minutes he took out the boiled carrots and eggs and placed them in two different bowls.

[0:58.26]Then he poured her a cup of coffee.

[1:2.31]He turned to his daughter, and asked her, “What do you see?” [1:7.09]“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied and asked, “What does it mean, Father?”

[1:14.08]He explained that the carrots, eggs and coffee beans each had faced

[1:20.02]the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.

[1:25.79]The carrots went in strong and hard but came out softened and weak.

[1:31.09]The eggs had been weak.

[1:33.26]But after being boiled their inside became hardened. [1:37.59]The coffee beans were unique, however.

[1:40.51]After they were boiled in the boiling water, they had made the water taste better.

[1:47.09]Then the father asked his daughter, “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you react?

[1:53.82]When life isn’t turning out quite the way you expected, you have a choice to make.

[1:59.17]Which will you be — a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? [2:4.74]If you are like the coffee bean, when things are at their worst, [2:8.94]you get better and make things better around you.”

Unit 8 Human Behaviour

[00:04.44]Listen and Respond [00:06.96]The Unexpected Rescue

[00:10.29]I was walking along a dark street late one evening when I heard screams coming from behind some bushes.

[00:17.57]Alarmed, I slowed down to listen, and realized that what I was [00:21.93]hearing were the sounds of a hard fight and tearing of clothes. [00:26.33]Only yards from where I stood, a woman was being attacked. [00:30.41]Should I get involved? [00:31.82]I was frightened for my own safety and cursed myself for having suddenly decided to take a new way home.

[00:39.28]Shouldn’t I run to the nearest phone and call the police? [00:43.53]Although the thoughts in my head had only taken seconds, already the girl’s cries were growing weaker. [00:50.78]I knew I had to act fast.

[00:53.30]How could I walk away from this? [00:55.52]No, I finally decided.

[00:57.53]I could not turn my back on the fate of this

[01:00.19]unknown woman even if it meant risking my own life. [01:05.00]I am not a brave man, nor am I a strong man.

[01:08.33]I don’t know where I found the courage and physical strength, [01:12.15]but once I had finally decided to help the girl I seemed to have changed into another man.

[01:18.62]I ran behind the bushes and pulled the attacker off the woman. [01:22.77]While struggling, we fell to the ground,

[01:25.23]where we wrestled for a few minutes until the attacker jumped up and escaped.

[01:30.38]Breathing hard, I approached the girl, who was sobbing behind a tree.

[01:34.97]In the darkness I could barely see her outline, but I could sense her trembling shock.

[01:41.17]Not wanting to frighten her further, I spoke to her from a distance.

[01:46.04]“It’s OK.” [01:47.20]I comforted her. [01:48.80]“The man ran away. [01:50.62]You are safe now.”

[01:53.81]There was a long pause...

[01:56.25]I heard the words in amazement. [01:59.21]“Daddy, is that you?”

[02:01.97]And then, from behind the tree, stepped out my youngest daughter, Katherine.