(共16张PPT)
Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 2
Warming-up
management skills
language skills
n. 趋势
Group Work: What knowledge, skills and attitudes are needed to succeed in future jobs
Pre-listening
computer skills foreign languages financial skills
critical thinking logical thinking creativity
presentation skills communication skills comprehension skills
adj. 合乎逻辑的
adj. 金融的
n. 理解
Kristy, a teenager, comes to Mr. McDougall, a guidance counsellor, for advice on future jobs. What do you think Mr. McDougall will mention as important abilities or skills for the future Why
Listen to the dialogue. Check your predictions. Write down the other three abilities or skills in the left column. Then listen again and complete the reasons in the right column.
While-listening
Abilities/Skills Reasons
1 Ability to learn new skills People will probably have four or five different jobs over many years.
2 Learning new IT skills and keeping up with technology developments These will give you the tools you need to find work in the future.
3 A second language Understanding language and culture will help greatly in effective communication.
4 Critical thinking We need the ability to consider and evaluate information rather than just learn and remember if.
5 Creativity People will be required to do more creative work, coming up with new ideas and thinking about how to improve existing processes and activities.
While-listening
Summarising Information
The speaker may present his or her ideas in different parts and use examples or explanations to support his or her idea.
Focus on the speaker’s responses to the questions.
Listen for signal words, such as first, other, etc.
Listen for examples or explanations given after each key idea.
When writing the summary, don’t add your own ideas.
While-listening
He thinks people need the ability to learn new skills. Using the Internet, learning, new IT skills and keeping up with technology developments will be important. A second language, critical thinking and creativity are also important skills.
Pair Work: Summarise Mr McDougall’s ideas about the skills and abilities people need to have for the future in a few sentences.
While-listening
(1) What is Kristy’s purpose of visiting Mr McDougall
(2) Does Mr McDougall know what jobs Kristy will do in the future Why
(3) What is Mr McDougall’s prediction for future jobs
(4) What do teenagers need to prepare for future jobs according to Mr McDougall
Listen again. Answer the questions.
While-listening
(1) What is Kristy’s purpose of visiting Mr McDougall
She is having difficulty choosing a university course that will lead to a good job in the future, so she wants some advice.
(2) Does Mr McDougall know what jobs Kristy will do in the future Why
No. Because he can’t predict exactly what the job trends for the future will be.
While-listening
(3) What is Mr McDougall’s prediction for future jobs
There’ll be many new types of jobs in areas such as information technology, bio-technology and green technology.
(4) What do teenagers need to prepare for future jobs according to Mr McDougall
Teenagers need the ability to learn new skills, to use the Internet, to learn new IT skills and to keep up with technology developments. A second language, critical thinking and creativity are important.
While-listening
Kristy comes to a guidance counsellor, Mr McDougall, for advice about future jobs. Mr McDougall says there’ll be new jobs related to 1 information technology, 2 bio-technology and green technology. So he advises Kristy to learn different kinds of skills. First, he thinks 3 the ability to learn new skills is important because in the future people may have 4 four or five different jobs over many years. Second, using the Internet, learning new IT skills and keeping up with 5 technology developments will be important because these will give people the tools they need in the future. He also mentions 6 languages. More people may speak 7 a second language. Lastly, he says 8 critical thinking and 9 creativity will be crucial in the future.
Complete the paragraph about Mr McDougall’s suggestions. Use the words and phrases you have learnt.
Listen to the dialogue between Lu Yan and her uncle. Answer the questions.
While-listening
1 How will jobs change in the future
2 What will people need to deal with the job market of the future
3 Where will people work in the future
4 What do we need in the changing world
While-listening
How will jobs change in the future
AI is changing the job market and will be doing a lot of the jobs people do now.
What will people need to deal with the job market of the future
They will need different skills.
Where will people work in the future
They can work from anywhere.
What do we need in the changing world
We need to have good computer skills, be motivated, creative, hard-working, ready to learn and be able to communicate well.
n. artificial intelligence 人工智能
While-listening
Agreeing
Ah, that’s a good point. I know …
Exactly. So people …
Yes, I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s already happening …
I agree with you there. That is so important.
Disagreeing
I’m not sure I agree with that.
Not necessarily. There is a great change going on in the world.
Talk Builder
Agreeing and Disagreeing
Listen and plete the Talk Builder.
Post-listening
A: I think work experience is more important. After all you deal with your work not your qualifications.
B: Ah, that’s a good point. But without qualifications, you can’t do some jobs, such as a doctor.
A: Exactly. However, it is work experience that makes a good doctor.
B: I couldn’t agree with you more, yet that doesn’t mean qualifications are less important.
A: I’m not sure I agree with that.
Pair Work: Which is more important, work experience or qualifications Discuss with your partner using expressions of agreeing and disagreeing.
Assignment
Finish Exercise 7 and 8 on P80 of your Workbook.
Goodbye!