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Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 3 Meet the New Boss: You
Activate and Share
1.What do you think are the typical features of careers in the past? What about in the future?
2.What may have caused the changes?
3.How can you get yourself prepared?
to follow in one’s parents’ footsteps to stay aat one job
to work in the same field to be a risk taker
to be placed by to be prepared for to develop new skills
to keep a job for the entire working life
Read and Explore
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 遇见新老板:你
P1. Up until the 1980s, people in many countries regularly
followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family
business or joining the same profession as them. You’d
follow your father to sea, onto the farm or into the workshop.
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。你可能会像父亲一样出海、去农场、进车间。
直到...
子承父业
从事同一职业
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.
How times have changed!
你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。现在时代变了!
缝纫室
有做某事的可能性
直到退休
Most people now have no intention of following in their
parents’ footsteps or even staying at one job for very long.
如今大多数人不再想子承父业,甚至不愿长时间做同一份工作。
没有做某事的打算
做同一份工作
P2.In fact, planning to work in the same field or industry
for your entire working life just isn’t practical anymore.
One reason for this is technology.The skills you have now
are unlikely to remain relevant and be enough to help you
through your entire career.
事实上,在同一个领域、同一行业工作一辈子的想法已经不现实了。其中一个原因是技术进步。你现在拥有的工作技能不可能一直有用,也不足以支撑你的整个职业生涯。
事实上
不可能做...
v-ing作主语
In fact, they will probably be out of date very soon. And
then what will you do? Work hard? Win the lottery