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Unit 5 Launching Your Career
Listening and speaking
Choose a university major
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Learning Objectives
1. Learn about some emerging and popular university majors.
2. Listen and identify the factors that would influence our major choices.
3. Talk about our preferred majors and the reasons for our preference.
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Lead in
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1. Look at the pictures below. Discuss in pair which university major each picture might show.
Bio-medical engineering____
Computer game design_____
Cybersecurity_______
Data Science ______
Public health_______
Robotics ________
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2.Listen to the conversation and tick the chart according to what is needed to get into a good university in each country.
Requirements China UK USA
Get a good grade
Pass the entrance exam
Write an essay
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3. Listen to the conversation again, and take notes on what each students would like to study and why.
Student Chosen major Reason
Liu Ming
Susan
Olivia
Computer game
design
Robotics
International business
interested in futuristic things
to find work overseas and see more of the world
to design fun games for children to learn with
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4.Listen again and answer the questions below.
1 .What did Liu Ming say about cybersecurity and data science?
2. What did Susan say she was told?
3. What did Olivia say they need to do to get into good universities?
They’re really fascinating subjects if you’re good at computer programming
There’s no point in choosing a subject that you like but you’re not very good at.
They need to start studying even harder.
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1. Do you agree with Olivia's parents when they say that a person's career might depend on what university they get into? Why or why not?
5. Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
It depends upon the career. For a few highly specialized careers, getting into the right university is key. For many other careers, it does not matter which university you have been to, or even really what you have studied at