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Unit 3 Careers and skills
Reading
Lead-in
What do you expect from your future career?
1. grasp the general information for the whole passage;
2. summarize why people need to work;
3.share their understanding of the spirits of all working men and promote virtue of contributions to society.
Learning aims
By the end of this section, students will be able to:
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
Not only does work benefit us personally, it also contributes to the health of society.
Through the work we do, our goals can be attained and our dreams achieved.
Earning a living is by no means the only reason why we work — there are other important reasons that motivate us to enter the world of work.
Hard work is essential for our individual well-being as well as for the benefit of our society as a whole.
Work can also help develop our skills, thus providing room for personal growth.
Match the main idea of each paragraph
Pre-reading
Read carefully and answer questions.
A question
People’s answer
People’s reason for it
How does the author present his central point?
Para.1
“Do you work to live or live to work?”
Some might say that we work because we have to.
Not least because we need the salary that enables us to be financially independent.
While-reading
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Listen carefully and complete the chart below.
Para.2
WORK
Our goals can be ______.
Henry David Thoreau
The opportunity _____
__________something we are fond of
Our dreams can be ______.
Yang Liwei
A great sense of _______
and ______________
attained
achieved
to be
engaged in
achievement
satisfaction
Give examples
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Translate the underlined sentence together.
……一个人若自信地朝他梦想的方向行进,努力过他设想的那种生活,那么他就会在平常的时刻与成功不期而遇。
亨利.戴维.梭罗(1817-1862),美国作家,曾在瓦尔登湖畔隐居两年多,亲近自然,过着简朴的生活,并以此题材写成散文《瓦尔登湖》(Walden)。这句引文就出自这部经典文学作品。
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A.Work enables us to be an astronaut.
B.Work can help us achieve our dream.
C.Work is the direction of our dream.
D.Work has more unexpected opportunities.
What does the example of Yang prove?
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