Unit 1 Grammar and usage
Teaching Aims:
1. Students are expected to learn simile and metaphor.
2. Enable students to understand and use.
Teaching Important and difficult Points:
Develop the students’ ability of using simile and metaphor.
Teaching Methods:
Explanation and exercise
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 lead-in
A simile:
My love is like a red, red rose. —Robert Burns
A metaphor
It’s raining cats and dogs.
An idiom
No news is good news.
A euphemism
Senior citizens are respected in our country.
figurative language
Step 2: Simile:
What is a simile
A simile is a comparison of two different objects that are not usually thought to be similar.
What words are used in similes
As and like.
How to make a simile effective
Readers must be familiar with the objects being compared.
Analyse the following similes:
using as:
Similarly, many ordinary jobs may look dull, but they are essential as water to our sciety.
By comparing these jobs to water, the importance of these jobs is emphasized and made more obvious.
using like:
He loved camping, and his job was
like a holiday for him.
Here the job is compared to holiday to express the person really enjoys his work and finds it relaxing.
More similes for you to enjoy:
1. The day we passed together for a while seemed a bright fire on a winter's night.
2. You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away.
3. You are as blind as a bat.
4. he is as happy as a clark.
5. I’m not as timid as a rabit.
Step 3 metaphor
What is a metaphor
Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.
Metaphors:
As a business person, you can’t be a mouse. You have to be a tiger.
You can’t be a timid person. You should be a brave person.
For lawyers, a courtroom is a battlefield.
A lawyer is compared to a fighter. He must fight to win cases here.
Going to work everyday became a chore for him, and he could hardly wait to find a new and exciting job.
Work is compared to a chore. This work is boring and the speaker is tired of it.
More metaphors for you to enjoy:
"I am a rainbow" is a example of metaphor because it is comparing two nouns, a person, and a rainbow, but does not use like or as.
Homework:
1. Read the points on Page 8 and finish C1 on Page 96 in Workbook.
2. Preview the Task part.Unit 1 Project Writing an essay about careers
Teaching aims:
Complete the quiz and identifies the skills and interests.
Important points & difficult points:
Teach them how to write a passage using what they learnt.
Teaching Methods:
Analyze and use.
Teaching Aids:
1. The multimedia
2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
1. What are you interested in
2. What skills do you have
3. What jobs do you think would be suitable for you
Step 2 Part A
Step 3 Part B
1. What ideas did you have about your career before you did the quiz
2. What did you think about the quiz
3. How did you feel about the result you got
4. Do you think a person could be a mixture of more than one type Why
5. How accurate do you think the quiz was Why
6. What else can you do to find the most suitable career for you
7. Do you need advice from your teachers, parents or friends Why or why not
8. How will you organize and plan the information in your essay
Homework:
1. Review new words and expressions in this unit.
2. Finish the exercises in Workboo.Unit 1 Careers and skills
Welcome to the unit
Teaching Aims:
1. Arrange a discussion for Ss to talk about different jobs and their choice of career in the future
2. Encourage Ss to express their own opinions in the discussion.
Try to develop their speaking ability
Teaching Important Point:
Develop students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Methods:
Discussion and free talk to involve each student in class activities.
Teaching Aids:
1. The multimedia
2. The blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in by pictures.
Development and the issue of what qualities are needed for these jobs.
Step 2 discussion
What jobs do you think are particularly suitable for men or women Why
Which job would you most like to do and least like to do Why
Homework:
1. Read the article in Part A on Page 98 in Workbook.
2. Preview the reading part.
Reading
So many jobs to choose from
Teaching Aims:
Enhance students’ reading abilities.
Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading for opinion in a text
Teaching important points:
Help Ss gain some knowledge about how to choose suited job, improving their reading skills.
Help them learn some language points.
Teaching methods:
1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.
Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.
Discussion to make every student work in class.
Teaching aids:
the multi-media
the blackboard.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1. Lead- in
glamorous: guess the meaning of this word.
She has a glamorous face. It is very attractive.
Step 2 Skimming
1. What does the author discuss in the article
2. Can you give two examples of the so-called glamorous jobs
3. Which jobs look dull but are actually very important
Step 3 Scanning
Para One
1. What is last year of high school a time for
2. Choose the meaning of “reflection” in
the text.
A. light turned back
B. image in a mirror
C. careful thoughts about something, sometimes for a long period of time.
3. What are the three types of jobs the author talks about
popular jobs
unusual jobs
everyday jobs
4. Guess the meaning of the word “options”.
A. different choices
B. jobs
C. careers
Para Two
1. When choosing a career, what is the author’s advice
2. What do unsuccessful actors, actresses and models have to do
3. What do successful ones have to do
4. What is the author’s attitude towards the successful career
Para three.
1. What are some other popular professions
2. What are the problems with these professions
Para four
List the unusual jobs mentioned in the paragraph.
2. What job did the man in the Grand Canyon National Park do
3. Which sentence shows the author’s positive attitude toward these unusual jobs
Para five
1. List the ordinary jobs in this paragraph.
2. What attitude of the author’s do the following words express
1). many ordinary jobs may look dull, but they are as essential as water to our body.
2). These jobs may not seem very attractive, but they are all important.
3). These people, who perform such ordinary but vital tasks, allow people to go about their daily lives.
Para six
Find out the words which show the author’s positive attitude and negative attitude.
Step 4 Reading strategy: reading for opinion in a text
What attitude do the following sentences express
Negative or positive
1). It does not seem that glamorous now, does it
2). These jobs may not seem very attractive, but they are all important.
3). Remember that some glamorous jobs can be rather difficult.
4). Some ordinary jobs can be quite important.
Step 5 Discussion
1. What do you think is the most interesting job in the world
2. If you could choose to have an unusual job, what it would be and why
3. When thinking about choosing your future job, what should you consider Why
Step 6 Language points
… more unusual jobs or everyday jobs are better suited to you.
1) suit to 使与……相适合
Eg. A good teacher suits his lessons to the age of his students.
2) be suit to 适合，适宜
Eg. Do you think David is suited to teaching
2. In reality, these people have to …
in reality 实际上，相当于in fact
Eg. The salesman always appeared very confident, but in reality (in fact), he was a shy and nervous young man.
3. They are also under huge pressure to appear young and beautiful.
under pressure 在压力下
Eg. Jim doesn't work well under pressure.
4. … the stress and pressure that come with these jobs.
come with 伴随…与发生
5. In contrast, some people find more…
in contrast 相比之下
6. …but they are as essential as water to our society.
be essential to / be essential for
对……必不可少；对……非常重要
Eg. Money is not essential to happiness.
7. …who clear up our rubbish.
1) clear up 整理；完成；收拾
Eg. Would you clear up this room before our visitors arrive
2) 解释；寻找答案；使明了
to clear up a misunderstanding
解除误会
3) 了结；结束；变缓和
Eg. I hope your troubles clear up soon.
我希望你的困难尽快了结。
8. These people, who perform such ordinary but vital tasks, allow people to go about their daily lives.
go about something 继续做某事
Eg. All the employees at the company are going about their business as usual despite the threat of bankruptcy.
Homework:
1. Read the passage again after class and underline the difficult and important points.
2. Write down the results of the discussion.Unit 1 Choosing a job for yourself
Teaching Aims:
1. Students are expected to learn how to taking useful notes about a job, how to persuade parents to agree with their choice and hot to write a diary entry.
2. Enable students to understand and use.
Teaching Important and difficult Points:
Develop the students’ ability by writing a diary entry about male nurses.
Teaching Methods:
Listening, speaking reading and writing.
Teaching Procedures:
1. Skill building 1:
Listening for facts about a job.
When you are listening to someone talk about his or her job, you will often find out certain facts. These facts include:
1. reasons for doing the job
2. likes and dislikes about the job
3. information such as holidays, dress code and training opportunities
4. qualities needed for the job
5. any other useful information
Step 1: Taking notes about a job .
You are a male student and have decided you want to be a nurse. Your parents do not support your choice because they do not think it is a good job for a man. You want to prove that it is a good job. Listen to this interview with a male nurse and take useful notes.
B. You want more information about male nurses. Listen to the second half of the interview and complete your notes above.
C. Your aunt has given you a copy of Nurse magazine. It contains an article written by the head of staff of a hospital. Read the article and make a list of the benefits of having male nurses in hospitals.
Skill building 2: persuading people by using positive arguments.
In some ways I agree, but this can…
Sorry, I do not agree. I don’t think it is a good idea because…
There are a lot of benefits to…
Times are changing, and there was an article /TV programme that said…
I have found some interesting facts that show…
Step 2. Persuading your parents to agree with your career choice. A sample dialogue:
S: Mum and Dad. I just want to be a nurse. Would you agree with me
D: Oh, my son, I don’t think it’s a good choice. It is a job for women, not for men.
S: Having more male nurses help creat a positive balance between male and female stuff, and it will allow patients the choice of a male or female carer.
M: Men do not have qualities to be nurses. Besides, the hours are long and everyday will be the same.
S: …
Skills building 3: Writing a diary entry.
When writing a diary, what entries should be often included
1. ________________________________
2. ________________________________
3. ________________________________
4. ________________________________
5. ________________________________
Step 3: Writing about what happened
Write a diary entry about what you found out about male nurses and the conversation that you had with your parents.
2 April
Today I found out some copies of Nurse magazine which contained an article written by the head of staff of a hospital.
From there, I knew that hospitals are in great need of male nurses. I wanted to be a male nurse, so I had a conversation with my parents about the matter. When I told them my idea, they didn’t agree with me. They said that …
Please go on with it.
Homework:
1. Write a diary entry about male nurses.
2. Preview the Project part.Unit 1 Word power
Teaching Objectives:
1. To enlarge students’ vocabulary。
2. To get students to learn some words and expressions related to different jobs.
3. To improve students’ speaking ability.
Teaching Important and Difficult Point:
Ss are expected to familiarize themselves with the new words and expressions.
Teaching Approaches:
Task-based approaches
Form of Activities:
Individual, pair or group work.
Teaching Aids:
The multimedia and the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Lead-in
Please say some names of different jobs.
Step 2 Jobs
A: Read “Different types of jobs” on page 6 and find out the names of different types of jobs.
1. Practical jobs
2. Caring jobs
3. Analytical jobs
4. Entertainment jobs
5. Educational jobs
6. Technical and Scientific jobs
7. Jobs based on information technology
8. Public service jobs
Step 3 Game Who did the most jobs
Do this game in class in pairs. Let’s see
who can say most of the jobs. The one
who says most of the jobs wins the game.
Example:
A: I think I did more jobs than you. I was once a chef.
B: I’m afraid you are wrong. I was once a police officer.
……
Homework:
1. Review new words and expressions in this part.
2. Preview grammar
