(共23张PPT)
Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 2 Period 1
教材分析
本课以听力为主要输入内容,话题围绕“未来职场对职业技能的要求和挑战”展开,介绍了未来职业的发展趋势和应对这一趋势所必须具备的技能。本课主题意义在于通过升学顾问和家人与中学生的对话与指导,让学生了解到未来职业的发展趋势,认识到适应未来职业变化应具备的品质和能力,培养从现在做起来应对未来职业挑战的意识。本课包含两个听力语篇,第一篇呈现了外国学生Kristy向升学顾问咨询的场景,第二篇呈现了中国学生鲁燕与家人探讨社会与科技发展对未来职业影响的场景,属于“人与自我”主题。
教学目标
在本课学习结束时,学生能够:
1. 根据标题预测对话内容,依据生活经验预测未来社会所需的职业技能;
2. 从对话中获取升学顾问对未来职业变化的预测及应对变化所需具备的能力等信息并做出总结,归纳对话中的问答结构;
3. 结合对话内容,条理清晰地表达对未来职业发展趋势的见解,阐述应对这一趋势所需的能力与品质。
教学重难点
【教学重点】
1. 根据标题预测对话内容,依据生活经验预测未来社会所需的职业技能;
2. 从对话中获取升学顾问对未来职业变化的预测及应对变化所需具备的能力等信息并做出总结,归纳对话中的问答结构。
【教学难点】
结合对话内容,条理清晰地表达对未来职业发展趋势的见解,阐述应对这一趋势所需的能力与品质。
教学过程
Step 1 Warming-up
Group Work: What knowledge, skills and attitudes are needed to succeed in future jobs
设计意图:为即将展开的话题作词汇准备和语境准备。
Step 2 Pre-listening
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
设计意图:在听前预测听力内容,为准确获取信息做准备。
Step 3 While-listening
1. 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.
2. Pair Work: Summarise Mr McDougall’s ideas about the skills and abilities people need to have for the future in a few sentences.
3. Listen again. Answer the questions.
(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
4. Complete the paragraph about Mr McDougall’s suggestions. Use the words and phrases you have learnt.
5. Listen to the dialogue between Lu Yan and her uncle. Answer the questions.
6. Listen and plete the Talk Builder.
设计意图:听取关键信息,理解未来的职场对人们技能的需求。另外,引导学生理解并运用同意和不同意的表达方法。
Step 4 Post-listening
Pair Work: Which is more important, work experience or qualifications Discuss with your partner using expressions of agreeing and disagreeing.
设计意图: 创设机会给学生练习表达,综合运用本课所学知识。
Step 5 Assignment
Finish Exercise 7 and 8 on P80 of your Workbook.
设计意图: 通过完成同主题听力练习,加深对本课主题的理解。
Vocabulary Learning—financial
【释义】
adj. connected with money and finance 财政的;金融的;财务的
【例句】
Tokyo and New York are major financial centers.
东京和纽约是主要的金融中心。
The financial crisis has brought new factors into play.
财政危机已引发了新的变数。
We must make the most efficient use of the available financial
resources.
我们必须最有效地利用现有财力。
【同根词】
finance n. 金融;财经 financially adv. 经济上地
【 “金融”术语】
①budget n. 预算 ②account n. 账目;账户
③capital n. 资金;资本 ④withdraw v. 提取
⑤cheque n. 支票 ⑥interest n. 利息
⑦finance n. 财政;金融
financial
/ fa n n l /
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.
文化知识——未来的职业
The last two decades have witnessed major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, which many commentators predict will transform work around the world. Now let’s have a brief glimpse at the fate of some jobs: at risk or on trend.
Resulting in the
end of work by
humans and high unemployment
…
Increasing the demand for labor and wages
…
文化知识——未来的职业
Telemarketing
Telemarketing may top the list of jobs that will disappear in the future because large language models have enabled computing systems to talk to customers, answer their questions, resolve their queries (询问) and often solve their problems.
文化知识——未来的职业
Human-Machine Teaming Manager (人机协同师)
The human-machine relationship is fragile because of the lack of integration between AI systems and human psychological capabilities. Managers are needed to pair humans and AI together to streamline (使效率更高) workflows and improve efficiency, quality, and accuracy.
Assignment
Finish Exercise 7 and 8 on P80 of your Workbook.