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Unit 7 Careers
Lesson 2 Career Skills
北师大选修第三册
Learning Objectives
I can talk about knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed in future jobs.
I can ask for and give advice on future jobs.
I can use expressions of agreeing and disagreeing to give opinions on the trend of future jobs.
Lead-in
Pre-listening
While-listening
Post-listening
Summary
Homework
Teaching Procedures
housekeeping
agriculture
office work
medical treatment
AI
What jobs are AI doing?
Lead-in
2026/3/13
4
What do you think interviewers care about in a job interview?
knowledge
attitudes
skills
job trends
...
Pre-listening
☐ computer skills ☐ foreign languages ☐ financial skills
☐ critical thinking ☐ logical thinking ☐ creativity
☐ presentation skills ☐ communication skills ☐ comprehension skills
Kristy, a teenager, comes to Mr McDougall, a guidance counsellor,
for advice on important abilities or skills for the future jobs? Why?
Make a prediction
While-listening
Abilities / Skills Reasons
1. Ability to learn new skills People will probably have ______________________________________________________________________.
2. Learning new IT skills and keeping up with technology developments These will give you the tools you need to ___________________________________.
four or five different jobs over
many years.
find work in the future.
Listen to the dialogue and check the predictions. Write down the other three abilities or skills and complete the reasons.
Abilities / Skills Reasons
3. Understanding languages and cultures will __________________________________.
4. We need the ability to ________________ information rather than just learn and remember it.
A second language
help greatly in effective communication.
Critical thinking
consider and evaluate
Abilities / Skills Reasons
5. People will be required ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
to do more creative work, coming up with new ideas and thinking about how to
improve existing processes and activities.
Creativity
Pair work. summarise Mr McDougall’s ideas about the skills and abilities people need to have for the future.
Skill Builder
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.
Take notes on key information.
Listen for examples or explanations given after each key idea.
When writing the summary, don’t add your own ideas.
Mr McDougall thinks that people need to master lifelong learning, IT skills, language competence, critical thinking, and creativity to adapt and succeed.
Listen again. Answer the questions.
1. What is Kristy’s purpose of visiting Mr McDougall?
A. To share her school life experience
B. To ask for advice on choosing a university course for future jobs
C. To discuss the development of new technologies
2. Does Mr McDougall know what jobs Kristy will do in the future? Why?
A. Yes, he can predict future jobs accurately
B. No, because future jobs are unpredictable
C. Yes, he is sure Kristy will work in information technology
3. What is Mr McDougall’s prediction for future jobs?
A. Most routine office or factory jobs will remain popular
B. Future jobs will be exactly the same as current ones
C. Many routine jobs will disappear, and new jobs will appear in fields like IT, bio-technology and green technology
4. What do teenagers need to prepare for future jobs according to Mr McDougall?
A. Only focus on learning one fixed skill for a single job
B. Ignore new technologies and cultural communication
C. Master skills like lifelong learning, IT competence, language ability, critical thinking and creativity
Kristy comes to a guidance counsellor, Mr McDougall, for advice on future jobs.Mr McDougall says there’ll be new jobs related to 1 _______ technology, 2 ____________ and green technology. So he advises Kristy to learn different kinds of skills. First, he thinks 3 ______________________ is important because in the future people may have 4 ______________________________________. Second, using the Internet,
information
bio-technology
the ability to learn new skills
four or five different jobs over many years
Complete the paragraph about Mr McDougall’s suggestions. Use the words and phrares you have learnt.
learning new IT skills and keeping up with 5 ________________________ will be important because these will give people the tools they need in the future. He also mentions 6 _________________. More people may speak
7 _________________________. Lastly, he says 8 ___________________ and 9 ____________ will be crucial in the future.
technology developments
a second language
Chinese, Spanish and Arabic
critical thinking creativity
creativity
Complete the paragraph about Mr McDougall’s suggestions. Use the words and phrares you have learnt.
1. How will jobs change in the future?
A. People will only stay in one job for life.
B. AI will take over many current jobs, and people won’t need to work remotely.
C. AI will replace some jobs, people may change jobs often, and remote work will be more common.
2. What will people need to deal with the job market of the future?
A. Only good academic grades from university.
B. Skills like keeping up with IT, lifelong learning, flexibility and good communication.
C. Ignore new technologies and focus on traditional job skills.
Listen to the dialogue between Lu Yan and her uncle.
3. Where will people work in the future?
4. What do we need in the changing world?
They don’t need to go into an office anymore — they can work from anywhere.
We need to keep developing and adapting, specifically, we need skills like good computer skills, motivation, creativity, hard work, a readiness to learn, and good communication ability; we also need to be flexible and keep up with new technologies.
Talk
Builder
Agreeing
1. Ah, that’s _________________. I know ...
2. ______________. So people ...
3. Yes. I _______________________________. It’s already happening
4. I ____________. That is so important.
Disagreeing
1. _____________ I agree with that.
2. _______________. There is a great change going on in the world.
a good point
Exactly
couldn’t agree with you more
agree
I'm not sure
Not necessarily
Listen and imitate. Complete the Talk Builder.
Do you agree? Why or why not?
Discussion.
A university degree = a good job in the future
Post-listening
2026/3/13
18
Future jobs
Job trends
Information technology
Bio-technology
Green technology
Abilities/ Skills
Learning ability
IT skills
Creativity
Critical thinking
Foreign languages
Summary
2026/3/13
19
Expressions
Agreeing
That’s a good point
Exactly
couldn’t agree with you more
I agree with you there
Which is more important, work experience or qualifications?
Discuss with your partner and write down your conversation using expressions of agreeing and disagreeing.
Expressions
Disagreeing
Not necessarily.
I’m not sure if I agree with that.
Homework
Thank You
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