Unit 5 Launching Your Career Period 6 Using language—Reading comprehension and language focus教学设计-2025-2026学年人教版高中英语选择性必修第四册

Teaching and Learning Design

Book4 Unit5 Launching Your Career

教学设计

Period 6

Teaching and learning contents: Using Language—Reading comprehension and language focus

Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives:

By the end of this period, the students will have been able to:

1) Read and comprehend the 3 different kinds of texts related to applying for a summer job for general ideas and detailed information;

2) Learn about the new language items in the 3 texts;

3) Learn about the stylistic features of job advertisements, cover letters and resumes.

Teaching and learning important points:

1) Reading comprehension of the 3 different kinds of texts related to applying for a summer job;

2) Learning about the new language items in the 3 texts;

3) Learning about the stylistic features of job advertisements, cover letters and resumes.

Teaching and learning difficult points:

1) Reading comprehension of the 3 different kinds of texts related to applying for a summer job;

2) Learning about the new language items in the 3 texts;

3) Learning about the stylistic features of job advertisements, cover letters and resumes.

Teaching and learning procedure:

Step 1 Leading in and warming up

Activity 1 Leading in

1. Lead into the teaching topic by asking the students to answer the following two questions.

Do you want to have a summer job?

Do you know how to apply for a summer job?

2. Introduce the learning objectives of this period. 

Step 2 Reading comprehension

Activity 2 Reading comprehension

1. Scan the titles and forms of the 3 texts to find out: What type of texts are they? What are these three different texts about?

  They are a job advertisement, a cover letter and a CV. The first text is a job advertisement looking for

helpers at a summer camp. The second is an application letter for that job as a camp helper. The third is the CV of the job applicant.

2. Read the text “SUMMER CAMP HELPERS WANTED!”, answer the questions, fill in the table and then summarize the stylistic features of a job advertisement.

1) Answer the questions:

What job is advertised?  Camp helpers.

What kind of person is wanted for the job?

  Has a good level of English;

Has good organizational and teamwork skills;

Has a passion for Chinese and international culture;

Has experience with animals;

Has a friendly, welcoming attitude, and good handwriting.

2) Fill in the table according to the job advertisement. 

Job responsibility	to supervise and/ or help out in a variety of tasks and recreational activities.
Job requirement	Personality and attitude	active and outgoing a friendly and welcoming attitude
	Language skills	a good level of English
	Experience and skills	experience with animals good organisational and team work skills

3) Guide the students to summarize the stylistic features of a job advertisement.

Basic elements: job responsibility, requirement, (payment), and contact information.

Language feature: the language is simple, easy and clear.

3. Read the cover letter and the CV to complete the following tasks.

1) Answer the following questions.

(1) What kind of person is required for the job?

An active and outgoing person who is passionate about Chinese culture and would like to meet and help young people from other countries.

(2) What experience does the applicant have with foreign languages? How has the applicant displayed her knowledge of Chinese culture?

She has travelled to several English speaking countries and her English is at an intermediate level. She has a certificate in Chinese Calligraphy and taught after-school classical calligraphy classes.

2) Guide the students to summarize the stylistic features of a job letter.

Basic elements: purpose, ability and skills, experience, promise and prospect, personality and attitude, willingness, looking for a reply.

Language feature: the language is simple, easy and clear.

3) Go through the CV and find out its function and language feature.

  Function: To prove or give support for what has been mentioned in the cover letter, and to offer more detailed personal information.

Language feature: listing the facts in categories and in order.

4. Read the cover letter and CV again, find out how the applicant responds to each of the job requirements to fill out the table, and discuss whether the applicant is a good match for the job and why.

1) Fill out the table.

Job advertisement	Application letter	CV
A good level of English	at an intermediate level	PETS 3 English qualification
Good organisational and teamwork skills	Volunteered at local library Captain of school table tennis team; knew how to lead and decide on priorities	helped organise city tour for visiting students from Canada
A passion for Chinese and international culture	Excited about the prospect of welcoming exchange students to our country keen to give them a warm welcome and an experience they will always remember	visited UK on high school exchange programme
Experience with animals	Yes.	Worked during holidays at local pet shop
A friendly, welcoming attitude, and good handwriting	proficient in Chinese calligraphy	certificate in Chinese calligraphy

2) Have a discussion: Do you think she is a good match for the job? Why?

  Suggested answer: She speaks intermediate-level English, has proficiency in Chinese calligraphy, helped to organize a three-day tour of her city for visiting exchange students, worked during holidays at local pet shop, and visited UK on high school exchange programme. She seems to be a good match for the job, as she appears to have all the necessary skills and qualifications.