Unit 4 Job searching
【教学目标】
Knowledge and skills: To review the content of Unit 3 and 4
To get the students know 4 elements in preparations for future vocations
To enable the students express themselves about their plan for their future vocation from the four aspects: interest, personality, education, and background and work experience
Process and methods: By listening, speaking and writing (as an assignment)
Emotion, attitude and view: To help the students get prepared for their future vocation
【教学重难点】
重点:
1.为将来的工作做准备的4要素的表达
2.学生对于将来工作的计划
难点:
学生对于将来工作准备的阐述
【教学过程】
一、教学活动
1.导入
Raise the topic and introduce the main purpose of this period.
Teacher’s activities: Raise the topic and introduce the main purpose of the period
Students’ activities: Listen and answer the question
Teaching aims: To have the students have a general idea of what will be learned in this period
2.讲授
Review the four elements in preparations for our career.
Review the four elements in preparations for our future career.
Interest Personality
Future career
Education Work experience
3.活动
Practice expressing the four elements
(1)Interest
Phrases:
Be interested in / keen on / fond of / fascinated by / enthusiastic about…
Have a passion for / find pleasure in / take to…
Sentence patterns:
Because…
I …for a long time since…. in that…
Since… for the reason that….
I…, which….
Example:
I have been especially interested in English since I was a child, because it offers me an opportunity to know another culture besides Chinese.
In my leisure time, I find pleasure in listening to music, which offers me a way of relaxation when I am tired.
(2)Personality
Match work: Match the career with the personality that you think is suitable for it.
Career: personality
Engineer brave
Teacher, doctor, decisive, patient, friendly
Policeman, judge, businessman talkative, honest, warm-hearted, sociable
Social worker, artist, accountant careful, gentle, creative, innovative, shy
Lawyer, journalist calm, enthusiastic, sensitive
Writer…. outgoing….
Sentence pattern:
Involves …, suits….well
… (The job) requires …, so a …person can manage the job easily.
Calls for…, it is ideal / suitable for a …person.
Example
Being a teacher involves teaching students again and again sometimes, so I think a patient person suits the job well.
(3)Education
Finish the table according to the text
Person
Future plan
Kelly Bai
She intends to study design at university /take a university course in design/ choose design as a field of study / major in design
Barbara Zhang
She hopes that she can go abroad to study
Charles Li
He wants to study to be an accountant.
Other means of study
Teach oneself / study online/go to evening school / study in the independent learning center / study in the tutorial centers
(4)Work experience
The benefits from volunteer work (Translation):
①.It offers you the opportunity to develop skills and gain experience (一个发展技能和获得经验的机会) that may be useful later.
②.It gives you confidence and a sense of self, achievement and satisfaction. (信心、自我感、
成就感和满足感)
③.It enables you to make new friends with people of all ages and backgrounds.(与各种年
龄和背景的人交新朋友)
④.It will leave lasting memories on the volunteers. (给志愿者留下永久的记忆)
(5)Conclusion
4.活动
An interview of a sophomore in psychology
(1)Take notes:
John’s ideal job: to be a psychologist
John’s interest: psychology reason: to help people lead a happy life
John’s personality: an easy-going person of great patience
A good listener, willing to share others’ sorrows and happiness, and give them advice when necessary.
The job’s requirement: patience
John’s education:
His major: psychology His grade: grade 2 at university (a sophomore)
His intention: study abroad if possible
John’s work experience: volunteer work
The benefits from it:
To develop skills in psychology and gain experience that may be useful later. To provide him with chances to apply book knowledge to practice to enable him to make new friends with people of all ages and backgrounds to give him a sense of achievement and satisfaction.
Other important information:
(2)suppose you were John. Introduce your ideal career (group work)
①What is your ideal career?
②Why do you choose it? (Your interest, your personality, etc.)
③How are you going to realize your dream? (Your education, work experience, etc.)
5.讲授Conclusion:
Make a conclusion of what has been learned in this period to get the students to review the topic of this period and make preparations for their own future career.
二、作业Assignment
Ask the students to write a composition about their future career: My ideal job