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Unit 5 Launching your career
Reading and Thinking
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Teaching Objectives
By the end of this period, students will be able to:
1. gain a better understanding about the future career plan by looking at a career aptitude test.
2. figure out the main structure of the text.
3. evaluate the writing purpose and the source of the text.
4. express their own ideas on the given topics by critical thinking.
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Teaching Procedures
1. Lead in
2. Pre-reading
2. While-reading
3. Post-reading
5. Homework
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Lead in
The future depends on what you do today.
— Mahatma Gandhi
未来取决于你今天的行动。
— 圣雄甘地
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Lead in
1 How would you interpret the picture?
2 What would you like to be in the future?
What careers interest you?
3 What factors will you take into consideration when you plan your career?
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Lead in
1 How would you interpret the picture?
The picture symbolises a person beginning his career with infinite possibilities ahead.
2 What would you like to be in the future?
What careers interest you?
The answer varies.
3 What factors will you take into consideration when you plan your career?
Main factors will be personal satisfaction, how well I will be able to help others, and the income.
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Pre-reading
Before you read, discuss these questions in groups.
1 What are some of the ways that can help people decide which career is appropriate for them?
A lot of people use personality tests to see what careers match their personalities, and career aptitude tests to see if it is a job they would enjoy doing and might have an ability at.
2 Is it essential that teenagers decide on a cxareer before they become adults? Why?
It depends. For those who are ambitious, it is best to decide and start preparing for that career as early as possible. Others are better off waiting, because they do not really have enough life experience to know what career would be suitable.
Get a head start on your future career
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While-reading
Fast reading
1. Skim the text and find the main advice given to