1、Module 2 A job worth doing Period OneTeaching aims:1. Help the Ss have some information of the present jobs. 2. Develop the Ss ability of reading comprehension.Teaching aids: Multimedia Teaching procedures:Step 1. Lead-in Show Ss some pictures and have a free talk. Step 2. Introduction (vocabulary a
2、nd speaking)Activity 1: Can you name some of the jobs? And what are the jobs of your family members? teacher, headmaster, worker, barber, hair-dresser, officer, official, policeman, firefighter, banker, doctor, nurse, vet, engineer, cook, postman, official, secretary, typist, busboy, manager, pilot,
3、 sailor, seller, waiter, librarian, architect, designer, director, actor, actress,Activity2: Introduction-brainstorming (2m) Describe the job with as many words as possible. exciting stressful well paid dangerous cool-looking come into chaos have gun on dutyStep 3. Discussion Look at the six picture
4、s on page 11 and discuss with your partner:1. Where are they?2. What do they do?3. What are they doing?4. What do you think of the jobs? Discuss what sort of job you would(not) like to do and why. I want to be a _, because it _. OR: I dont want to be a _, because it_.Step 4. Dialogue making1. Make a
5、 dialogue with your partner and talk about which one in these jobs you like best and which you dont like most and why (you can use the words in the box). 2. Say what sort of job you would like to do and why.Step 5. Vocabulary and reading1. Do you know other jobs?accountant barber biochemist business
6、man businesswoman cook electrician miner policeman secretary Secretary General of the United Nations volunteer2. Matching: Match the words in the box with their meanings.a. We ask this person to put electricity in homes.b. This person works underground.c. He or she prepares meals in a restaurant.d.
7、This scientist studies the chemistry of living things.e. You go to this person to get your hair cut.f. This person works in an office.g. This person knows a lot about money.h. He or she works in business.i. This person must do many things including directing the traffic.j. This person has offered to
8、 do a job and may not be paid for doing it.3. Sorting. Now divide the jobs into modern and traditional.Modern:Traditional:accountant, biochemist, businessman/ businesswoman,electricianbarber, cook, miner, policeman, secretary, volunteer4. Look at the pictures and answer the questions.a. Where is the
9、 man standing?b. What is he holding?c. Can the bus driver see the lorry?d. Can the lorry driver see the bus?e. How is the road?f. Why is the man standing there?g. Is his work dangerous? Is it helpful?h. How much money do you think he will receive from standing there and doing such work?Step 6. Skimm
10、ingRead the passage and match the headings in activity 3 on page 13 with the paragraphs.Step 7. Vocabulary and Reading 4 scanningRead the first paragraph and answer the questions.1. Where is La Paz?2. What is its altitude?3. Which road is the most dangerous there?4. Are there any rules of using it?
11、Do people respect them?Step 8. Reading1. Read the last two paragraphs and choose the correct answers in part 4.2. Read the whole passage again and finish activity 5.Step 9. ExerciseFind the words or phrases in the passage which mean:1. A nearly vertical fall2. A form of transport, especially one wit
12、h an engine and four wheels3. To still be alive, after being in an accident4. The total number of dead (e.g.in an accident)5. A part of the road which is not straight6. To be used to something that you dont see its true value and dont show thanks.7. To make someone think hard8. A reason for livingSt
13、ep 10. Check the answers(Answers: 1. sheer drop 2.vehicle 3. survive 4. death toll 5. bend 6. take for granted 7. have a profound effect on 8. mission in life)Step 11. True or False 1. The mountains make communication easy.2. Many roads are in bad condition and accidents are unfrequented.3. Timoteo
14、has an unusual job.4. He climbs up to the bend with a large square board in his hand.5. Some one asked him to do the job.6. He felt that it was others mission to do it.Step 12. Language points1. At 3,500 metres, La Paz, in Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world. Life is hard _ (在高海拔地区), and th
15、e mountains make communications difficult.2. Many roads are _(处于不好的状态) and accidents are frequent.3. One road _ (尤其，特别), which goes north from La Paz, is _(认为) the most dangerous road in the world.4._(一边) the mountains rise steep, _(另一边) there is a sheer drop, which in places is hundreds of metres d
16、eep.5. Although there is not a lot of traffic,_(平均), one vehicle _ (坠落) the road every two weeks.6. _ (理论上), the road can only be used by traffic . But_(实践上), few drivers _ (遵守) the rules.7. When two vehicles _(接近) from opposite directions they cant see each other.8. Sometimes drivers give him a tip
17、, so that he has just enough money to _(继续生存).9. But often they just pass by, _ the human traffic signal _(看作理所当然).10. Then one day while he was working as a lorry driver he _(跟死神打了个照面).11. This last experience _(对有重大影响) Timoteo.12. And so every morning,_(一周又一周), from dawn to dusk, Timoteo _ (占据他的位置
18、) on the bend and directs the traffic.Step 13. SpeakingImagine that you are a journalist of Topics in Focus, and your partner is Timoteo, please interview him by asking some questions, for example:1. How old are you?2. When did you start directing the traffic?3. Why do you choose to do so?4. How do you direct the traffic?Step 14. Role-playAs a reporter, you just had read a report about Timoteo. So you want to have a face-to-face interview with him.Step 15. Homework 1. Try to remember the new words of this period.2. Prepare a topic about the hero Timoteo
