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Listening
Choices and decisions
Unit 1 Looking forwards
1.Understand the details of the listening material and learn the ways to choose a job;
2.Develop students’ ability to ask and answer questions introduced by “why”.
Read the conversation and answer the questions.
1.What difficult decisions is Li Ling facing? Why is she feeling worried?
2. What does Jenny suggest to her?
3. What would you do when faced with a difficult decision?
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1.What difficult decisions is Li Ling facing? Why is she feeling worried?
She has to make a choice between studying physics at her dream university, (as she has been admitted without taking any exam,) and taking the college entrance exam and applying to the Medical School there.
She doesn’t know whether she can make the right decision.
2. What does Jenny suggest to her?
Jenny at first suggested to Li Ling that she should go for her preferred major. Then she suggested that she could put off making a decision until she had spoken to her high school advisor. Since Li Ling still could not make a decision, Jenny suggested that they could go for lunch and then weigh up the options.
3. What would you do when faced with a difficult decision?
Read the statements and complete the sentences with the correct form of the expressions in the last conversation.
1 May is ________________________________.
2 Jane is ________________________________.
3 Paul finds it easy to ________________________.
4 Bill is _________________________________.
5 Amanda wants to ________________________.
6 Jia Ying has decided to ____________________.
having second thoughts
putting off making a decision
make up his mind
rejecting something out of hand
weigh up the options
pass up the opportunity
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1.What can students achieve via part-time jobs?
2.What regulations are in place for students doing part-time jobs in the UK?
3.Have you ever had a part-time job? Why did you do it?
Read the passage and answer the following questions.
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Part-time jobs can be helpful