Culture Corner教案和学案内容

Unit 14 Culture Corner Today’s job requirements

Teaching Objectives Knowledge and skills:

1) Improve students' ability of fast reading and careful reading. 2) Have a good knowledge of Today’s job requirements.

3) Practise vocabulary related to jobs. 4) Guide the students to realize the importance of qualities and skills. Moral goals: 1) Arouse the students' interest in reading. 2) Make them have a clear idea that you should possess qualities and skills if you want to find a job. Teaching Important Points:

1) Read a text and find out specific information.

2) Have a good knowledge of Today’s job requirements.

Teaching Difficult Points:

1) How to improve the students’ reading skills.

2) How to guide the students to realize the importance of qualities and skills. Teaching methods: 1) Brainstorm before reading. 2) Fast-reading and careful-reading method for the structure of this passage and detailed information. 3) Task-based method to help the students understand the text better. 4) Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids:

Blackboard, CAI Teaching Materials: Culture corner, Unit 15 Careers Module 5, Beijing Normal University Press. Period: the first Lecturer: Yuanpei Wu Teaching procedures: Step 1 Review 1. Please say the words according to the Chinese meaning. 总裁--- 记者--- 物理学家--- 宇航员--- 第1页

工程师--- 建筑师--- 律师--- 翻译员--- 2. What do you think of today’s job requirements? Step 2 Lead-in

Task1: See the pictures. The true pictures of finding jobs in the University campus. Task 2: skimming Job problems for graduates

In China, there are many graduates every year who feel it very hard to find a job. Why? One reason perhaps is that many universities fail to adapt their courses to the development of economy. Second, there is an oversupply

of graduates in certain majors. So many of them can not find the job they want. According to the statistics, only 58% of college graduates could find jobs they want.

Step 3 Fast Reading Read the passage quickly and answer the questions. 1. What qualities and skills do companies wish the applicants to have nowadays? 1) to be dynamic and enthusiastic 2) to be organized and flexible 3) to be creative and have good judgment 4) to have good communication skills 5) to have team spirit 6) to be adaptable 2. What message does the author want to get across to the readers?

The author describes the qualities and skills that make an applicant more employable in the job market. Step 4 Careful Reading Task 1: Read the passage carefully and complete the chart below. Years ago

Task 2: Read the text and fill in the chart. Qualities and skills

to be dynamic and enthusiastic

It means that candidates should ...

have a positive attitude towards the job 第2页

Nowadays

People have many kinds of jobs in their working life.

Five years in a job is a long time.

being creative and having good judgment

having team spirit

to be adaptable

take on many tasks at the same time, sometimes at very challenging levels.

get on well with others and have skills in negotiating and giving presentations

show a flexible approach to problems. Task 3: Complete each sentence with a word from the key words box. flexible, organized, creative, enthusiastic, dynamic, adaptable 1. Someone

is good at producing new ideas and good ideas. 2. A

person has a lot of energy. 3.

people can change to suit new conditions or situations. 4. An

person is good at putting everything in order. 5. Someone

shows a lot of excitement and interest about sb./ sth. 6. An

person is able to change in order to deal successfully with new situations. Step 5 Post Reading Group Discussion: 1. What will you want to do after graduation? 2. What qualities/ skills do you think are important? Why? Step 6 Assignments 1. Write a passage about the job you would like to do in the future. 2. Please surf the Internet to get more information about Today’ job requirements.

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