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Unit 1 Sour Grapes Defense
Listening Comprehension
What do you do when you are faced with a bad situation? In fact, your mind has
ways of dealing with an unpleasant reality and protecting you. One of them is
displacement. It is expressing your feelings somewhere else. For example, you might
get angry at your teacher. But you know you will get in trouble if you express your
feelings to him or her. Therefore, you express your feelings toward safer targets. You
become angry at your family or friends. Denial is another common way to protect
yourself from pain. This is when you refuse to see any problems or bad situations. You
believe that they are not real. Finally, there is a “sour grapes defense.” In one of
Aesop‟s fables, a hungry fox wanted to have some grapes. But they were hanging high
on the tree, and he could not reach them. Then he said to himself, “The grapes are
probably sour anyway!”
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Listening Comprehension
What do you do when you are faced with a bad situation? In fact, your mind has
ways of dealing with an unpleasant reality and protecting you. One of them is
displacement. It is expressing your feelings somewhere else. For example, you might
get angry at your teacher. But you know you will get in trouble if you express your
feelings to him or her. Therefore, you express your feelings toward safer targets. You
become angry at your family or friends. Denial is another common way to protect
yourself from pain. This is when you refuse to see any problems or bad situations. You
believe that they are not real. Finally, there is a “sour grapes defense.” In one of
Aesop‟s fables, a hungry fox wanted to have some grapes. But they were hanging high
on the tree, and he could not reach them. Then he said to himself, “The grapes are
probably sour anyway!”
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