(共18张PPT)
Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 2 Career Skills
Listening & Speaking
By the end of this period, students will be able:
To listen for general and specific information about future jobs.
To summarize information and give your own opinions about a job.
To talk about your ideal future job.
To learn about and practice expressions for agreeing and disagreeing.
Learning objectives
Housekeeping
Agriculture
Medical treatment
What jobs are robots doing
Lead-in
What knowledge, skills and attitudes are needed to succeed in future jobs
knowledge
job trends
attitudes
skills
Future Jobs
management skills
language skills
Activate and Share
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
computer skills foreign languages financial skills critical thinking logical thinking creativity
presentation skills communication skills comprehension skills
Listen and tick what Mr McDougall mentions.
Listen for understanding
Listening skills
1. Read before you listen. 听前预读
2. Catch the key words. 抓关键词
3. Take notes quickly. 快速笔记
4. Be in a good mood. 心态良好
Listen to the dialogue. Check your predictions. Write down the other three abilities or skills in the column.
Abilities / Skills
1. Ability to learn new skills
2. Learning new IT skills and keeping up with technology development
3. _________________________________________
4. _________________________________________
5. _________________________________________
Learning a second languages
Developing critical thinking
Being creativity
7.3
Listen again and complete the reasons.
Abilities/ Skills Reasons
1. Ability to learn new skills People will probably have ___________________________________.
2. Learning new IT skills and keeping up with technology development This will give you the tools you need to ________________________.
3. Learning a second languages Understanding language and culture will _____________________
_______________.
4. Developing critical thinking We need the ability to __________________ information rather than just learn and remember it.
5. Being creativity People will be required ____________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________.
four or five different jobs over many years
find work in the future
consider and evaluate
to do more creative work, coming up with
help greatly in effective
communication
new ideas, and thinking about how to improve existing processes and activities
Pair Work Summarize Mr McDougall’s ideas about the skills and abilities people need to have for the future in a few sentences.
Skill Builder
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.
Take notes on key information.
Listen for examples or explanations given after each key idea.
When writing the summary, don’t add your own ideas.
1. Does the summary cover all Mr McDougall’s ideas about the 5 abilities/skills
2. Are examples or explanations used to support these ideas
3. Are linkers used in the summary
4. Do you add your own ideas
Modify your summary according to the table below.
To improve the summary …
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
Kristy visited Mr McDougall in order to ask for advice on choosing a university course.
Mr McDougall says teenagers need to learn new skills, a new language, and how to be creative.
No, Mr McDougall does not know what job Kristy will do in the future because he cannot predict job trends of the future.
Mr McDougall predicts there will be many new types of jobs in areas such as information technology, bio-technology, and green technology.
Do you agree with Mr McDougall Why or why not
Which suggestion do you think is the most important
What else is important for future jobs Why
Job trends
Information technology
Bio-technology
Green technology
Abilities/ Skills
Learning ability
IT skills
Creativity
Critical thinking
Foreign languages
Future jobs
Complete the paragraph about Mr McDougall’s suggestions. Use the words and phrases you have learnt.
Kristy comes to a guidance counsellor, Mr McDougall, for advice about future jobs. Mr McDougall says there’ll be new jobs related to 1 ___________ technology, 2 _____________ and green technology. So he advises Kristy to learn different kinds of skills. First, he thinks 3 _________________________ is important because in the future people may have 4 ____________________________________. Second, using the Internet, learning new IT skills and keeping up with 5 _______________________ will be important because these will give people the tools they need in the future. He also mentions 6 ____________. More people may speak 7 ____________________. Lastly, he says 8 ___________________ and 9 ___________ will be crucial in the future.
information
bio-technology
the ability to learn new skills
four or five different jobs over many years
technology developments
languages
a second language
critical thinking
creativity
Listen to the dialogue between Lu Yan and her uncle. Answer the questions.
AI is changing the job market and will do jobs people do now.
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
People need to have different skills to deal with the job market of the future.
People will be able to work from anywhere in the future.
We need to be flexible and be good communicators.
7.4
Focus on function
Listen and plete the Talk Builder.
Agreeing and Disagreeing
Agreeing
1. Ah, that’s ________________. I know...
2. ____________________. So people...
3. Yes. I ____________________________. It’s already happening...
4. I ____________________. That is so important.
Disagreeing
1. ____________________ I agree with that.
2. ____________________. There is a great change going on in the world.
a good point
Exactly
couldn’t agree with you more
agree with you there
I’m not sure if
Not necessarily
Choose a topic and discuss in pairs using expressions of agreeing and disagreeing.
Group Work
Which is more important, work experience or qualifications
Who do you think will give better advice on choosing future jobs, your parents or friends
Expressions
Agreeing
a good point
Exactly
couldn’t agree with you more
agree with you there
Disagreeing
Not necessarily.
I’m not sure if I agree with that.
Speak
1.Listen and read the conversation aloud.
2.Write down a short passage about three abilities or skills in the work within 50 words.
Homework