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Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 2
Warming-up
management skills
language skills
n. 趋势
Group Work: What knowledge, skills and attitudes are needed to succeed in future jobs?
Future jobs
skills
job trends
attitudes
knowledge
Pre-listening
computer skills foreign languages financial skills
critical thinking logical thinking creativity
presentation skills communication skills comprehension skills
adj. 合乎逻辑的
adj. 金融的
n. 理解
Kristy, a teenager, comes to Mr. McDougall, a guidance counsellor, for advice on future jobs. What do you think Mr. McDougall will mention as important abilities or skills for the future? Why?
Listen to the dialogue. Check your predictions. Write down the other three abilities or skills in the left column. Then listen again and complete the reasons in the right column.
While-listening
Abilities/Skills Reasons
1 Ability to learn new skills People will probably have four or five different jobs over many years.
2 Learning new IT skills and keeping up with technology developments These will give you the tools you need to find work in the future.
3 A second language Understanding language and culture will help greatly in effective communication.
4 Critical thinking We need the ability to consider and evaluate information rather than just learn and remember if.
5 Creativity People will be required to do more creative work, coming up with new ideas and thinking about how to improve existing processes and activities.
While-listening
Summarising Information
The speaker may present his or her ideas in different parts and use examples or explanations to support his or her idea.
Focus on the speaker’s responses to the questions.
Listen for signal words, such as first, other, etc.
Listen for examples or explanations given after each key idea.
When writing the summary, don’t add your own ideas.
While-listening
He thinks people need the ability to learn new skills. Using the Internet, learning, new IT skills and keeping up with technology developments will