Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims:
1. Arrange a discussion for Ss to talk about different jobs and their choice of career in the future
2. Encourage Ss to express their own opinions in the discussion.
Try to develop their speaking ability
Teaching Important Point:
Develop students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Methods:
Discussion and free talk to involve each student in class activities.
Teaching Aids:
1. The multimedia
2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in by pictures.
Development and the issue of what qualities are needed for these jobs.
Step 2 discussion
What jobs do you think are particularly suitable for men or women? Why?
Which job would you most like to do and least like to do? Why?
Homework:
1. Read the article in Part A on Page 98 in Workbook.
2. Preview the reading part.
Reading
So many jobs to choose from
Teaching Aims:
1. Enhance students’ reading abilities.
2. Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading for opinion in a text
Teaching important points:
1. Help Ss gain some knowledge about how to choose suited job, improving their reading skills.
2. Help them learn some language points.
Teaching methods:
1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.
1. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.
2. Discussion to make every student work in class.
Teaching aids:
1. the multi-media
2. the blackboard.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead- in
glamorous: guess the meaning of this word.
She has a glamorous face. It is very attractive.
Step 2 Skimming
1. What does the author discuss in the article?
2. Can you give two examples of the so-called glamorous jobs?
3. Which jobs look dull but are actually very important?
Step 3 Scanning
Para One
1. What is last year of high school a time for?
2. Choose the meaning of “reflection” in
the text.
A. light turned back
B. image in a mirror
C. careful thoughts about something, sometimes for a long period of time.
3. What are the three types of jobs the author talks about?
popular jobs
unusual jobs
everyday jobs
4. Guess the meaning of the word “options”.
A. different choices
B. jobs
C. careers
Para Two
1. When choosing a career, what is the author’s advice?
2. What do unsuccessful actors, actresses and models have to do?
3. What do successful ones have to do?
4. What is the author’s attitude towards the successful career?
Para three.
1. What are some other popular professions?
2. What are the problems with these professions?
Para four
List the unusual jobs mentioned in the paragraph.
2. What job did the man in the Grand Canyon National Park do?
3. Which sentence shows the author’s positive attitude toward these unusual jobs?
Para five
1. List the ordinary jobs in this paragraph.
2. What attitude of the author’s do the following words express?
1). many ordinary jobs may look dull, but they are as essential as water to our body.
2). These jobs may not seem very attractive, but they are all important.
3). These people, who perform such ordinary but vital tasks, allow people to go about their daily lives.
Para six
Find out the words which show the author’s positive attitude and negative attitude.
Step 4 Reading strategy: reading for opinion in a text
What attitude do the following sentences express?
Negative or positive?
1). It does not seem that glamorous now, does it?
2). These jobs may not seem very attractive, but they are all important.
3). Remember that some glamorous jobs can be rather difficult.
4). Some ordinary jobs can be quite important.
Step 5 Discussion
1. What do you think is the most interesting job in the world?
2. If you could choose to have an unusual job, what it would be and why?
3. When thinking about choosing your future job, what should you consider? Why?
Step 6 Language points
1. … more unusual jobs or everyday jobs are better suited to you.
1) suit to 使與……相適合
Eg. A good teacher suits his lessons to the age of his students.
2) be suit to 適合，適宜
Eg. Do you think David is suited to teaching?
2. In reality, these people have to …
in reality 實際上，相當于in fact
Eg. The salesman always appeared very confident, but in reality (in fact), he was a shy and nervous young man.
3. They are also under huge pressure to appear young and beautiful.
under pressure 在壓力下
Eg. Jim doesn't work well under pressure.
4. … the stress and pressure that come with these jobs.
come with 伴隨…與發生
5. In contrast, some people find more…
in contrast 相比之下
6. …but they are as essential as water to our society.
be essential to / be essential for
對……必不可少；對……非常重要
Eg. Money is not essential to happiness.
7. …who clear up our rubbish.
1) clear up 整理；完成；收拾
Eg. Would you clear up this room before our visitors arrive?
2) 解釋；尋找答案；使明了
to clear up a misunderstanding
解除誤會
3) 了結；結束；變緩和
Eg. I hope your troubles clear up soon.
我希望你的困難盡快了結。
8. These people, who perform such ordinary but vital tasks, allow people to go about their daily lives.
go about something 繼續做某事
Eg. All the employees at the company are going about their business as usual despite the threat of bankruptcy.
Homework:
1. Read the passage again after class and underline the difficult and important points.
2. Write down the results of the discussion.