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Lesson 3 Meet the New Boss:You
—Reading Comprehension
Unit 7 Career
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. read and talk about career trends from the past and for the future;
2. read for specific information and for critical thinking;
3. notice and practise using collocations when talking about careers.
In the past, people often...while in the future, people will...I think... cause(s) the changes. To make preparations for future careers, we should...
Pre-reading
Active and share
What do you think are the typical features of careers in the past What about in the future What may have caused the changes How can you get yourself prepared Use the phrases below to help you.
While-reading
1. What’s the main idea of the passage
A. How to become an employer.
B. How to avoid losing your job in the future.
C. How to adapt to the new job trends in the future.
D. How to make a good impression on your new boss.
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Activity 1 Fast-reading for main ideas
2. Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
A. What should you do to succeed in your future jobs
B. What were jobs like in the past
C. It’s wrong to think people can’t be replaced by robots.
D. Working in the same field all one’s life will not be practical.
E. One can hardly get great career success by working 8 hours per day.
1. What was a person likely to do before the 1980s
Following in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family business or joining the same profession as them.
Doing the same job from graduation until retirement.
Activity 2 Careful-reading for details
Para. 1
2. What’s the function of the first paragraph
A. To show what jobs people did in the past.
B. To introduce some new jobs.
C. To explain the cause of a job trend.
D. To bring in the topic.
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1. Why do people can hardly work on the same job all his life
Because with the development of technology, the skills you have now are unlikely to remain relevant and be enough to help you throuth your entire career.
2. What does “look beyond the little box”(Line 22) mean
A. Consider something in a new way.
B. Leave your present job.
C. Look at the other side of a box.
D. Try one’s fortune.
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Para. 2
1. What does “this is hardly a recipe for great career success” in Para. 3 mean
A. You can’t build a successful career.
B. You shouldn’t work eight hours every day.
C. You have another chance to be successful.
D. It is not a smart way to build a successful career.
2. What does Para.3 advise doing to succeed
You’d better keep looking for smarter ways to do your work and become an expert or a specialist in something.
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Para. 3
1. What can we infer from Para. 4
A. It is possible that you will be replaced by robots in your job.
B. Your present job will surely disappear in ten years.
C. If you don’t study, you might be out of work in the future.
D. You’d better begin to learn after you leave one job.
2. How can we avoid losing jobs in the future according to Para. 4
We can keep learning to qualify to work in another field before we are thrown out of a career.
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Para. 4
How can we succeed in a 21st century career
A. We should learn new essential skills.
B. We can work in the same field all our life.
C. We should obey the rules of the company.
D. We should remember what we learned at school.
Para. 5
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1. What kind of passage is the text
A. An argumentative essay.
B. An expository essay.
C. A news report.
D. A tour brochure.
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The whole passage
2. What’s the structure of the passage
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Skill Builder
Recognising Irony
Writers sometimes use irony (sarcasm, exaggeration and humour).We can infer that he/she is not serious and wants to draw the readers’ attention.
e.g.:
Work hard
Win the lottery
Hope for the best
You might be lucky. These strategies might bring you a nice, comfortable life …
But most of us today have to look beyond the little box called “career”.
If you think you can work eight hours a day and build a career, think again.
If you think you can’t be replaced by software or your job can’t be outsourced to some robots on the moon, you are wrong.
3. Tick the sentences that show irony. Then discuss your answers. Explain the examples of irony.
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Do you agree with the writer when he says that the “new boss” is “you”?(Critical thinking)
Yes, I agree with the author.
Post-reading
Activity 1 Discussion
This means that you are responsible for your future.
2.Why does the writer discuss some of the wrong assumptions in Paras. 2-4 (Creative thinking)
To invite readers to pay more attention to what he or she says about the real trend about the future and to make the readers realise that what common people think at present will no longer be true in the future and that they have no other choices but to walk out of their comfort zone and be their own boss.
Up until 1.____ 1980s, people in many countries regularly followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family business or joining the same profession as them. However, most people now have no 2.________(intend) of following in their parents’ footsteps or even staying at one job 3. ______ very long.
In fact, planning to work in the same field or industry for your entire working life just isn’t practical anymore. One reason for this 4._____(be) technology. Jobs and occupations come and go at an 5.________(amaze) pace these days. You may have to go back to the classroom and 6.___________(retrain) in order to qualify 7.________(work) in another field. It is 8. ________(entire) your choice to learn, or to be forced to learn. In short, if you want to succeed in a 21st century career, you will have to develop new essential 9.______(skill). The truth is that you are the boss of your career, and it is up to you to decide 10. _____ you can do and how well you can do it.
is
amazing
the
intention
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Activity 2 Summary
be retrained
what
skills
to work
entirely
1. In fact, planning to work in the same field or industry for your entire working life just isn’t practical anymore.
[句式分析] 本句是一个_______句。其中planning to work ... working life是 ______,is 系动词,pracical 是______。
[自主翻译]
事实上,在同一个领域、同一行业工作一辈子的想法
简单
主语
表语
Sentences Analysis
已经不现实了。
2. You might be able to keep your job if you finish what you are asked to do, but this is hardly a recipe for great career success.
[句式分析] 此句是_______句。but是表示________关系的并列词;but 之前的分句中包含一个由if引导的__________从句,从句中what引导_______ 从句,且在句中作_____。
[自主翻译]
复合
条件状语
宾语
宾语
完成别人安排的任务,也许可以保住你的工作,但绝不
转折
是取得巨大职业成就的方法。
3. If you think you can’t be replaced by software, or your job can’t be outsourced to some robots on the moon, you are wrong.
[句式分析] 此句是_________句。其中if 引导的是___________从句;or连接的是think的并列______从句。
[自主翻译]
复合
条件状语
宾语
如果认为自己不会被软件所取代,或者自己的工作
不可能外包给月球上的机器人,那就大错特错了。
4.The truth is that you are the boss of your career, and it is up to you to decide what you can do and how well you can do it.
[句式分析] 此句是______句。第一个and是连接两个并列分句。该and之前的分句中,that引导_____从句,而and之后的分句中,it为形式_______,真正的主语是___________;decide之后为and连接的并列的_______从句,从句引导词分别为 ________和_____________。
[自主翻译]
to decide...
实际上,你才是自己职业生涯的老板,也只有你才能决定
表语
复合
宾语
主语
what
how well
自己能做什么、能做多好。
Homework
Search online and find out what jobs have disappeared in the past 10 years. What new jobs do you think will appear in the next 10 years.