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Unit 5 Launching Your Career
Period 2 Reading & Thinking
Get a head start on your future career
To read a passage about career aptitude tests and learn how to know yourself better through self-assessment.
To be able to understand charts and graphs.
To learn as many as words about jobs.
Decide on
a future career
Choose a university major
Apply for a job
What do you want to be when you grow up? Let’s listen to how kids respond to this question.
What jobs are mentioned by the kids in the interview?
haircutter/barber
cashier
author
lawyer
actor/actress
policeman
model
singer,dancer
cook
professional soccer player
artist
video game maker
friends’ stories’keeper
pet doctor
1 _________ A person whose job is teaching, especially in a school
2 _________ A person who owns a farm and works the land
3 _________ A scientist who studies biology
4 _________ A person whose job is to make plans or patterns
for clothes, furniture, equipment etc
5 _________ A person who works for a boss or an organization, dealing with telephone calls, typing, arranging meetings with people, etc.
6 _________ A person whose job is to sell things to people
Write down the occupation that mathes each definition.
teacher
farmer
assistant
/secretary
salesman
biologist
designer
Get a head start on your future career
a head start: an advantage that someone already has before they start doing sth
What is your dream job when you are a kid?
What factors will you take into consideration when
planning the future career?
education level ability
interest ,
personality
geographic location
prospect
income
welfare
working time
stress...
When it comes to career planning, a lot of factors should be taken into consideration, so how to work out what we want to do?
What is the text probably about?
It’s probably about planning your career with the help of “career apititude tests” that analyses your work personality types.
B. Taking time to think about dream career
is an essential