1、Unit1 Careers and skills Reading Teaching Aims:1. Enhance students reading abilities.2. Enable Ss to adopt the strategy reading for opinion in a textTeaching important points:1. Help Ss gain some knowledge about how to choose suited job, improving their reading skills.2. Help them learn some languag
2、e points.Teaching methods:1.Improve the students reading comprehension.1. Practice to get the students to master what theyve learnt.2. Discussion to make every student work in class.Teaching aids:1. the multi-media2. the blackboardTeaching procedures:Step 1. Lead- inglamorous: guess the meaning of t
3、his wordShe has a glamorous face. It is very attractive.Step 2 Skimming1. 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 ScanningPara One1. What is last year of high school a time
4、 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 time3. What are the three types of jobs the author talks about?popular jobsunusual jobseveryday jobs4. Guess the meaning of the word “
5、options”. A. different choices B. jobs C. careersPara Two1. When choosing a career, what is the authors advice?2. What do unsuccessful actors, actresses and models have to do?3. What do successful ones have to do?4. What is the authors attitude towards the successful career?Para three.1. What are so
6、me other popular professions?2. What are the problems with these professions?Para four1. 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 authors positive attitude toward these unusual jobs?Para five1. List the
7、ordinary jobs in this paragraph.2. What attitude of the authors do the following words express?1). Many ordinary jobs may look plain, but they are necessary to society. 2). These jobs may not seem very attractive, but they are all important.3). These people, who perform such ordinary but vital tasks
8、, allow others to go about their daily lives.Para sixFind out the words which show the authors positive attitude and negative attitude.Step 4 Reading strategy: reading for opinion in a textWhat attitude do the following sentences express?Negative or positive?1). It does not seem that glamorous now,
9、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 Discussion1. What do you think is the most interesting job in the world?2. If you could choose to have an
10、 unusual job, what it would be and why?3. When thinking about choosing your future job, what should you consider? Why?Step 6 HomeworkConduct a survey. Ask your classmates these information about their parents. Topics:What jobs they do?Whether they are satisfied with their jobs?If they had a chance to do another job, what it would be?
