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UNIT 7 Careers
Lesson 3 Meet the New Boss: You
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Activate and share
1. Have you ever considered doing the same job as your parents?
2. What do you think are the typical features of careers in the past?
3. Will jobs of the future be the same with those in the past?
* to follow in one’s parents’ footsteps
* to stay at one job
* to keep a job for the entire working life
* to work in the same field
2
Read and explore
1 You are going to read an article about future careers. Look at the title of the lesson. Tick the topics that you think will be mentioned.
How jobs and occupations will change?
How to become an employer?
How to adapt to the new job trends?
How to avoid losing your job in the future?
Meet the New Boss: You
3
Read and explore
2 Read the text and check your prediction.
How jobs and occupations will change?
How to become an employer?
How to adapt to the new job trends?
How to avoid losing your job in the future?
4
Activate and share
Up until the 1980s, people in many countries(介短作后置定语) regularly followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family business or joining the same profession as them.
一直到20世纪80年代,在很多国家人们往往子承父业,参与家族生意,或选择与父母从事同一职业。
Detail reading
para 1
1. 介词短语:1) 多位于名词身后,作后置定语,例如此处的in many countries修饰people. 2) 位于整个句子后面或者前面,作状语,例如此处的by working...and joining...作方式状语。
2. the same as 和...相同 be different from 和...不同 be similar to 和...相似
3. profession = a type of job needing special training or skill.
* to follow in one’s parents’ footsteps
* to stay at one job
* to keep a job for the entire working life
* to work in the same field
5
Activate and share
You’d follow your father to sea, onto the farm or into the workshop. You’d follow your mother into the kitchen or sewing room. In your grandparents’ time, there was the prospect of doing the same job from graduation until retirement.
你可能会像父亲一样出海、去农场、进车间,也可能会像妈妈一样进厨房、去缝纫室。在你祖父母的时代,人们的预期是从毕业到退休都做同样的工作。
Detail reading
para 1
1. prospect = possibility or idea of what will happen in fu