Career Preparation
By Gu Zhaohui from Songjiang No.1 High School
Teaching Aims: (theme-based revision)
1. To help the students review the knowledge and the language about the theme----- Career Preparation (be faced with, It is estimated that…, People hold the view that …, involve, It is … that…, What ….makes it possible for sb. to do…., might/may as well do, convey/imply, The more…, the more…)
2. To help the students develop the ability in reading, speaking and writing
3. To help the students build up a right attitude towards career preparation
Teaching Aids:
Multimedia
Teaching Procedure:
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Steps |
Teacher’s activities |
Students’ activities |
Purposes |
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Leading in |
Raise a question for discussion: What will we be faced with after graduation? |
Voice their opinions freely but focus on the theme --- career preparation |
1．To start today’s
theme
2．To help the students to practise “be faced with” |
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Reading a letter relevant to career |
1. Present the letter
2. Ask the students to read the letter
3. Set questions to help the students know what the letter is about |
1. Read the letter
within 2 minutes.
2. Answer the
questions or complete the sentence |
1．To help the students know what the letter is about and get ready for the reply letter
2. To help them find out what plays a role in career success (interest and personal relationship）
3. To develop the students’ ability in reading (skimming & scanning) |
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Practising the language and the knowledge orally |
1. Interest
Ask the students to translate or complete some sentences
Put some further questions to the students to guide them to practise the language (be faced with, It is estimated that…, People hold the view that …, involve, It is … that…, What…makes it possible for sb to do)
2. Personal relationship
Ask the students to
translate or complete some sentences
Put some further questions to the students to guide them to practise the language (might/may as well do, convey, imply, The more…, the more…) |
Under the teacher’s guidance, translate or complete the sentences to practise the language and the knowledge orally with the help of what has been learned from the textbooks （People from All Walks of Life & Making Friends, etc.） |
1.To guide the students to practise the language (be faced with, It is estimated that…,People hold the view that…, involve, It is … that…,What…makes it possible for sb. to do…, might/may as well do, convey/imply, The more…, the more…) in various situations that are relevant to the theme --- Career Preparation
2. To collect and refine the materials, which the students have learned from the text-
books, for the reply letter
3. To develop the students’ ability in speaking |
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Writing |
1. Help the students to know the framework of a letter
2. Encourage the
students to read the salutation and the first paragraph of Bob’s letter
3. Ask the students to write the salutation and the first paragraph of their own reply letter
4. Guide the students to frame an outline of the body of the reply letter |
1. Glance through
Bob’s letter and find out the framework of a letter
2. Read the salutation and the first paragraph of Bob’s letter
3. Write the salutation and the first paragraph of the reply letter
4. Frame an outline of the body of the reply letter |
1. To encourage the students to settle down to writing the reply with the collected and refined materials
2. To develop the
students’ ability in writing a letter
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Assignment |
1. Write the body of the reply letter with the help of the language, the knowledge and the outline discussed in class
2. Write the concluding paragraph (You can adapt the following sentences for encouragement and try to make it relevant to the theme --- Career Preparation)
Only for your reference:
① I can feel the sufferings of you and yet I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace will return. (Senior 3,Book 5,Unit 3,A Young Girl’s Impossible Idealism)
② There is no problem in this world so great that it cannot be solved in a constructive way.(Senior 3, Book 5, Unit 4, One Person Can Make a difference for Peace)
③ It may help the young go through this difficult and critical stage of life in a more constructive manner. (Senior 3, Book 6, Additional Reading, Adolescence)
④ Go beyond their present imperfections, and you have a future lighted with the glorious colors of hope. (Senior 3, Book 6, Unit 2, Two Truths to Live By) |
Career Preparation (Worksheet)
I． Read Bob’s letter
Dear Peter,
How are you getting along recently? I have been missing you very much.
I’m low in spirits these days! I feel depressed about my work. The question is hanging over my head all the time whether this hopeless and dull routine work will be the way for the rest of my life. Sometimes I go to the dark end of the shelves, press my forehead against the wall and bury myself in a few moments of quiet disappointment. You can’t imagine how time drags in the workplace. I have to surf the Internet to kill time. To make matters worse, all the colleagues around are absorbed in their own work and seem to be indifferent to my existence. I have never felt close to any of them.
The dead-end job is sucking every bit of energy from my body and I’m trying to forget about tomorrow and all the tomorrows that will follow. Sorry, Peter. Maybe my low spirits have somewhat scared you. Anyway, I will try to cheer up.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Bob
II． Find out Bob’s problem
1. What is Bob’s problem?
2. ____________________ may cause Bob’s problem. (in no more than 15 words)
3. He takes a/an ________ attitude towards the problem. (fill in the blank with an adjective)
III． Practise, collect and refine materials for the reply (Take notes: some phrases, sentence patterns and sentences being discussed)
1. _______________:
2. _______________:
IV. Write the reply letter
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V. Assignment:
1.Write the body of the reply letter with the help of the language, the knowledge and the outline discussed in class
2.Write the concluding paragraph (You can adapt the following sentences for encouragement and try to make it relevant to the theme ---Career Preparation)
Only for your reference:
Senior 3, Book 5,Unit 3 A young girl’s Impossible Idealism
I can feel the sufferings of you and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace will return. |
Senior 3, Book 6, Unit 2 Two Truths to Live By
Go beyond their present imperfections, and you have a future lighted with the glorious colors of hope. |
Senior 3, Book 5, Unit 4 One Person Can Make a Difference for Peace
It is the critical knowledge that there is no problem in this world so great that it cannot be solved in a constructive way. |
Senior 3, Book 6 (Additional Reading), Book 6 Adolescence
1. If guidance is intelligently offered, they accept it with enthusiasm.
2. It may help the young go through this difficult and critical stage of life in a more constructive manner. |
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