Unit 7 Careers Reading club 2 & Check your progress 课件（共28张）2024-2025学年高二英语北师版（2019）选择性必修3

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Unit 7 Careers
Reading Club 2
WORKING IN THE DARK
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. read and talk about alternative work hours.
2. use the words and expressions correctly
Learning objectives
Do you want to work at night
What will the passage with a title “Working in the dark” be about
Are you familiar with night workers Who are they
Do you want to do a night job in the future Why or why not
Pre-reading
9 am - 5 pm: the standard working day for most people. However, for other people, it’s bedtime. These people are the night workers - nurses on night shift, lorry drivers crossing continents and bakers preparing breakfast bread. While there may be some advantages to work at this time, working at night also brings particular problems: family life is difficult and social life is limited. Furthermore, cafés and restaurants are closed. There are few transportation options and it’s bad for health. With all these problems, who would choose to work on the night shift anyway, and are they planning to stay in their jobs
Read the passages. Answer the questions.
1. What kind of people usually work at night
2. What does Robert do Why doesn’t he want to leave his job
3. What does Tony do Why does he work at night
Nurses on night shift, lorry drivers and bakers.
He is an astro-photographer. He enjoys his job.
Tony repairs railway tracks. He works at night because trains can’t stop during the day.
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4. What does John do What is his plan for his career
5. What does Indira do Why can’t she leave her job right now
John is a night security guard. He is going to start a distance learning course and become a teacher.
Indira works at a call center. She can’t leave her job because well-paid jobs aren’t easy to find.
Read the passages again and complete the statements.
1. There are some problems of working at night, such as __________ family life, _________ social life, and closed cafes and restaurants.
2. Robert plans to join a(n) ____________ online, hoping to make friends with people ________.
3. Tony wants to leave his job to be a(n) ________ so that he is able to take care of his wife and baby.
difficult
limited
chat room
abroad
builder
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4. John thinks his job is _______ because it’s so _______. He wants to be a high school teacher to help with students’ ________.
5. Indira says working at night is depressing, but her job is interesting because she can ________________.
boring
quiet
future
use her English
Pair work:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in the daytime and at night
Group work:
If you were offered a job you like, but it needs to be done at night, would you take the job Why or why not
1. There are few transportation options and it’s bad for health.
option n. a choice you can make in a particular situation or when using computer software 选择；选项
eg She had the option of staying for an extra year.
Select an option from the main menu. (翻译)
她可以选择再逗留一年。
从主菜单上选一项。
Language point
2. I’m happiest when I’m looking down my telescope.
telescope n. a tool that helps people see objects in space from the Earth 望远镜
tele- over a long distance; far 远距离的；远的
eg telecamera n. 电视摄影机；远距离摄影机
teleoperate v. 远程操纵；遥控
tele- connected with television 电视的
eg teletext n. 图文电视
tele- done using a telephone 通过电话的
eg telesales n. 电话销售
Find stories online about how people feel about their working night shift and write down your own opinions in 80 words.
Homework
Check Your Progress
1. Chen Xi introduces ideas about IQ and plete is introduction with the correct form of the words and phrases below.
get ahead, deal with, predict, adjust, deserve,
get you employed, association, lower, internal, hence
Up until quite recently, it was believed that IQ was the most important measure of intelligence and those with high IQs were the ones who 1____________ in life. However, experts now say that EQ is as important if not more in 2____________ whether someone will be successful in life. Professor Salovey, the expert who invented the term, explains that in the workplace IQ 3___________________ but EQ gets you promoted.
get ahead
predicting
gets you employed
People with high EQs are described as happy, sociable and can 4_________ well in all areas of their lives and careers. They can manage their emotions and are less likely to be troubled by negative 5__________ feelings and thoughts. Those with low EQs struggle 6____________ challenges and difficult situations; 7__________ are more stressed and unhappy.
adjust
internal
to deal with
hence
There can be an 8__________ between IQ and EQ but not always. People who have high IQs may not be emotionally intelligent and vice versa. For example, if students who are highly academic and intelligent fail to achieve the grades they 9__________ in exams it may be because they have 10________ EQs.
lower
association
deserve
2. Chen Yang presents some advice on career plete the passage using the correct form of the words and phrases below.
logical thinking, comprehension skill, reliable, persuade,
critical thinking, financial skill, trend, routine
I recently spoke to Ms Xue about the skills we will need in years to come and the future 1___________ for jobs and careers. According to Ms Xue, in the future a lot of 2___________ office and factory jobs will disappear. We need to have many skills which we can start developing now.
trends
routine
One of the most important is 3_______________, which is the ability to analyse and evaluate information. 4_______________, which is the ability to use our reason well, will be highly useful in the workplace, as it will help us use our knowledge 5______________ others. 6__________________ will be highly valued and companies will always appreciate a 7_____________ person who they can trust to do their job. Even outside the workplace, there are important skills we will need. For example, good 8______________ will benefit us greatly when we start earning money and have financial responsibilities.
critical thinking
Logical thinking
to persuade
Comprehension skill
reliable
financial skills
3. Li Zhen now talks about how job trends change over plete the passage with the correct form of the words and phrases below.
Things have changed so much since our parents’ and grandparents’ time, especially when it comes to jobs and careers. When our parents were starting to find work, the 1_________ of staying in the same 2__________ for your entire life was very common. Nowadays, that idea would be considered really unusual!
prospect, remain relevant, earn a decent salary, innovator
specialist, occupation, multiple times, pace, be qualified, essential
prospect
occupation
There will be new 3___________ 21st century skills that we will have to have. For example, a university degree is still useful, but technology developments mean that many skills we have now are unlikely 4________________ in the future. 5_____________________ is one thing, but if we really want to succeed in our careers we have to be 6____________, thinking of new and exciting ways to do things.
essential
to remain relevant
Earning a decent salary
innovators
It won’t be enough to have only a general understanding of our area of work but we should keep learning until we become 7_________. And given that people will not stay in the same career for long, we can expect that we will have to go back to education and training at some stage 8_____________ to work in another field. In fact, we might have to do that 9_____________!
Jobs change at an amazing 10_________ these days, and if we can keep up, we can have really exciting and rewarding future careers.
specialists
to be qualified
multiple times
pace
4. Chen Xi's teacher gives a short speech about future job plete the speech with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1___________(give) the fast pace of the job market now, 21st century employees 2___________(face) with challenges that their parents never experienced. 3___________(compare) to previous generations, standards 4___________ (set) higher for them and they 5___________(expect) to have more qualifications and a wider range of new and essential skills.
Given
are faced
Compared
are set
are expected
6__________(require) to innovate constantly, 21st century employees need to be ready to adapt to new challenges and roles quickly. 7__________(throw) into a hyper-connected workplace, today’s graduates will also have to 8__________(prepare) to move around to jobs at different companies.
There are also plenty of advantages to this new working world. 9__________(design) to be more dynamic and inspiring, working environments will be more exciting than offices of the past.
Required
Thrown
prepare
Designed
Workers will happily enjoy many extra benefits, such as gyms and games rooms, 10__________(provide) by companies. Alternatively, if someone prefers more independence, technology will allow for greater opportunities for self employment and starting their own business.
provided
5. One of the graduates from Chen Xi's school gives them some advice on job interviews. Order the sentences (a-f).
Then write down the questions that you could ask to get this advice.
a For the same reason, they also don’t reply to many of the applicants who send them their CVs.
b In addition, they usually ask candidates to take a literacy test after the interview.
c Moreover, if you are lucky enough to get an interview with them, you should come to the interview well-prepared.
d Due to the large number of applications the company receives, they only ask a small number of applicants to come in for an interview.
e Since the company pays well and offers secure jobs, the candidates that do make it through the interview process always say “yes” to the job that is offered.
f As the company is determined to find the right candidates, they will ask a lot of detailed questions to find out what you know about the company.
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UNIT DIARY
Useful words and expressions for talking about features of careers in the past and future:
Three impressive sentences I’d like to remember from this unit:
Things I can do that will help me when I’m applying for a job:
The part I like/dislike about this unit:
1. Review the words, expressions and grammar of this unit.
2. Write a short passage about your dreaming job in 100 words.
Homework