Transcript Unit 3.ppt

Unit 3
My First Job
Robert Best
Warm-up Questions
1.Have you ever taken a full-time or parttime job?if the answer is yes, what kind
of job was it? How did you get the job?
Have experienced any job interview?
2.How to achieve success in a job
interview?
3.What are your expectations of the
job?
4.Can you imagine whether the man is
Smart
appearance
Speech
craft
job interview
academic
knowledge
Good
manners
confidence &
modesty
the expectations of the job
1. salary:
as much as possible
pleasant; comfortable; spacious
2. Working
conditions
3. boss
easy-going colleagues
the opportunity to study and
promote
competitive/ challenging stable
open-minded; just ; competent etc
Global Reading
rearrange the order of the pictures
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text structure analysis
Part I
Paras.1
the reason why the young man
wanted to find a job.
setting
Part II
Paras.(2-8)
his disappointing experience
development
to find a job
(plot)
Part III
Para.9
the most important reason why result
he refused the job
(climax)
For the first
part:
True or False
1. The young man got some information about a
job in a London newspaper.
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The story doesn’t tell
us. young man was a college student wanting to
The
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find a part-time job.
. He was waiting Fto enter
3 In
Britain, a degree and working experience are
university.
. very important in job hunting.
T a job as a teacher
The
young
man
applied
for
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because he liked the job.
.Because
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he was short
of money and wanted to do
something useful.
5 When the young man applied for the job, he
. didn’t feel confident.
For the second part:
Complete the Missing Information of the Story
1. Three days later, the young man was asked to show up for an interview.
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2. The journey to the school proved to be long and awkward .
3. The young man was so worn out that he didn’t even feel nervous.
4.After being asked some questions, the young man felt he and the
headmaster had little in common.
5. The young man was supposed to teach twenty-four boys in turn at three
different levels.
6. For such demanding work, the young man’s salary was only ￡12 a week.
For the third
part:
Discussion
1. Did the young man accept the job? Why or
whyNo,
not?
he didn’t. There were two reasons. The
first reason was that the teaching set-up
was too heavy. The second and the more
important one is that he didn’t want to be
an inferior to a woman.
2. What can you infer from the end of the
story?
Michael’s disappointment
School campus
headmaster
journey
disappointment
the hall and walls
the boss
salary
teaching subjects
teaching set-up
the disappointment before the
interviewa train to Croyston
Long and
awkward
journey
station
ten-minute bus ride
a walk of at
least a quarter
of a mile
too depressed
to feel nervous
school campus
Four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, wher
they struggled to survive the dust and fumes .
the disappointment during the
interview Short and fat
Sandy –colored moustache
a wrinkled-forehead and hardly any hai
headmaster
With an air of surprised disapproval
a colonel might look at a private who
bootlaces were undone
fixing me with his bloodshot eyes
“ah, yes” he grunted.
the disappointment during the
interview
the hall
narrow
sunless
the walls
dirty with ink
marks
Smell unpleasantly of stale
cabbage
It was all
silent
the disappointment during the
interview
teaching subject
teaching set-up
no free
all
Saturday
subjects
afternoondivide the class
except
I was dismayed at the
art
into three groups
thought
and teach them in
of teaching algebra and
turn at 3 levels
the disappointment during the
interview
salary
boss
twelve pounds plus lunch
female boss
the development of disappointment
bad
worse
worst
disappointment at journey,
school campus; the
headmaster
disappointment at teaching subjects
teaching set-up and salary
female boss
refuse the job
• The main idea of the story:
• The writer was interviewed by
the headmaster of a school and
was offered a job which was
none too pleasant.
Detailed Reading
• 1. 1 advertise: v.为…做广告
• 1) make known to people by means of mass
media
• They no longer advertise alcohol or cigarettes at
sporting events.
• Many companies will only advertise in the
Sunday paper.
• 2) ask (for someone or something) by placing an
advertisement in a newspaper, shop window, etc.
• I see they're advertising for a new Sales Director.
• N. advertisement—ad.
local a. 当地的，地方的/ n. 本地人
（或物）
• The village has an excellent local bus
service. 村子里的公交汽车服务很棒。
• the local post office 当地邮局
• The street was full of locals and tourists.
街上都是本地人和游客。
• location n. 地点，场所
• It is a suitable location for a new school. 那
是建一所新学校的合适地点。
• suburb n. 郊区（尤指近郊住宅区）
• They decided to move out to the suburbs.
他们决定搬到郊外去
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post: n.
1) job or position岗位
He was offered the post of ambassador to Indian.
她受聘在新政府中任职.
She was offered a post in the new government.
2) the official system for carrying letters, parcels,
etc. from one place to another邮件
• Your letter must have got lost in the post.
• The winners will be notified by post.
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Collocation:
abandon one’s post
放弃职位
apply for a post
申请职位
desert one’s post
擅离职守
seek a post
求职
free post
免费邮件
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short of 缺乏；不足；
We are short of hands now.
我们现在人手不足。
As for study, people are not short of time,
but of diligence.
• 学习这件事，不是缺乏时间，而是缺乏努
力。
apply v.
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• 1) write or ask for (a job, membership, etc.)
officially申请
• Last week John applied to that famous
university for a job.
• 2) be relevant in the situation; concern
(对…) 适用
• The rules of safe driving apply to everyone
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1) use or put into use运用
We should apply a theory to practice
2) devote (oneself or one's efforts) to something将…投入
自从上学期考试不及格以来，我一直专心于我的学习。
I have applied myself to my studies since I failed to pass
the exam last semester.
apply to + n. (pron.)
apply to-v.
apply for sth.
apply to sb. for sth.
applicant n. 申请者
interview: n.& v.接见，采访；面试，
面谈
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求职面试不能迟到 .
Don't be late for your job interview .
如果有机会，你希望能采访谁？为什么？
Who do you want to interview and why?
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Collocation:
give an interview to sb.
接见某人
have an interview with sb. 会见某人
seek an interview with
请求与…会见
job interviews
(对申请工作者的)面试
prove: v. turn out to be (true)
He proved a very useful friend.
• 事实证明人民的创造力是无穷的
Facts have proved that the creative power of the
people knows no limits.
Pattern:
prove + n.;
prove + adj.;
prove to be...;
prove + that-clause;
prove to sb. + that-clause;
prove of
depress vt. 压抑；使沮丧；使萧条
• 1) make sad; discourage
他很沮丧，因为他没有通过考试。
He was depressed because he had not passed his examinations.
• A rise in oil prices depressed the car market.
• 石油价格上涨使汽车市场不景气。
2) press, push or pull down
If you depress the button there, a robot will come out to serve tea.
3) make lower
• That alone should depress prices.
• 仅这一点就会压低价格。
• depression n. 沮丧；萧条
• Cf.
• oppress?
• pressure?
• survive vt. 幸存；生还；幸免于；比...活得长
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vi. 幸存；活下来
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No one survived the crash.
无人在这次撞击中幸免于难
Most women will survive their spouses.
大多数女性比她们的配偶活得长。
The eight pupils battling to survive in icy seas for
over four hours.
• 4名小学生在冰冷的海洋中挣扎求生超过4个小时
.disapproval: n. unfavorable
opinion or feeling; dislike
• The lady looked at the man with
disapproval.
• 你的同学谈到你的行为时都是不赞成的。
• Your classmates spoke with disapproval of
your behavior.
• The old man shakes his head in
disapproval.
• approval n.
undo: vt.
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1) unfasten (what is tied or wrapped); untie
Let me help you undo the buttons on that jacket.
2) cancel; bring back the state of affairs that existed before
What is done cannot be undone.
The new President undid many rules set up by the former President.
Un-un一是英语本民族前级,常加在形容词、副词、分词、动词和名词
之前;第一,表示否定意义.第二.表示“反动作”.即“相反的动作”。
• unbind解开,释放uneover揭开……的盖毛: unhouse。把·一赶出屋外
uncage放”一出笼 unearth由地下掘出unbotton解开钮扣 等
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• smell of: give out the smell or scent of
有…的气味；闻出…的味道
• There is a smell of fried chicken in this
room.
• The air was filled with the smell of flowers.
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stale : adj
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1) not fresh不新鲜的
Don’t eat those stale biscuits.
流水不腐。
Running water never gets stale.
2) no longer interesting or exciting陈腐的 What you
heard about Tom is quite stale.
Collocation:
feel / get stale
对…没兴趣
stale beer
走气啤酒
stale news
过时消息
stale debt 失时效债务
• judge by / from: base one's opinion of (sth.) on
(sth.); form an opinion based on (sth.); form an
opinion about根据…作出判断
• He was extremely attractive, judging by the
newspaper photograph.
• Judging from what you say in your letter, you
don't sound well.
• A man should be judged by his deed, not his
words.
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• I mumbled something about not attaching
too much importance to them.
• 我含含糊糊地说了一些不必太重视游戏之
类的话。
attach vt. 使依附；贴上；系上；使依恋
vi. 附加；附属；伴随
1) attach importance to ---consider sth. to be important or significant;
treat as important 认为.....重要
• 我们要把发展经济的工作放在第一位.
We should attach primary importance to the development of economy.
Our teacher attaches great important to listening comprehension.
• 2) fasten (to), fix, nail贴上；系上,附加
• Attach a recent photograph to your application form.
• 3)join附属
• Several hospitals are attached to this medical school.
• attach oneself to依附; 参加(党派等); 热爱, 依恋
• attach to认为有(重要性、意义等); 归因于, 适用于
• …attached, please find[书信用语]附上…请查收
be attached to连在…上, 附属于; 热爱, 依恋
attachment n. 附属物，附件；爱慕
vital adj. 至关重要的；生死攸关的；
有活力的
• These measures are vital to national
security
• Water is of vital necessity in the desert
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She's a very vital sort of person.
• 她是个精力旺盛的人。
• play a vital role in......
• have ... in common (with): share together or
equally (with)在....有共同之处
• We like the same things. I think we have a
lot in common.
• Though they are twins, they have few
interests in common
consist of 由…构成
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Computer systems consist of hardware and software.
计算机系统由硬件和软件组成。
The cake consists mainly of sugar, flour and butter.
consist in?
Happiness consists in being contented with what one has.
快乐在于满足于一个人所拥有的东西。
• consist v. （由…）组成，构成/ compose v. 组成，构成
/ comprise v. 由…组成，由…构成/ constitute v. 组成，
构成
range from… to: vary from … to;
vary between certain limits
• range v. 变动（在一定范围内）；排列 / n. 范围
• Prices range from ￡6 to ￡10. 价钱从六英镑到
十英镑不等。
• Range the books by size. 把这些书按大小分类
排列。
• The cost is thought to be in the range of $1-5
million a day. 人们认为每日费用为100万至500
万美元。
• The teaching set-up filled me with fear
• 整个教学计划把我吓坏了。
• in turn 依次，轮流
• His policy was to beat each enemy in turn.
他的方针是各个击破。
• 理论的基础是实践，又转过来为实践服务.
• Theory is based on practice and in turn
serves practice.
• “two subjects at which I had been completely
incompetent at school. “Why does the author use “at”
before “which-clause”?
• It has something to do with the word “incompetent”.
Usually we use “be (in)competent at / in sth.”. According
to the grammar, we can put a preposition before “whclause”.
• More example:
• The problem about which I consulted you has now been
solved.
• He is clever and quick at his work, for which he is
honored with the title of a model worker.
• incompetent a. 无能力的，不胜任的
• He is an incompetent candidate.他是一个不合格的候选
人。
• competent a. 胜任的，称职的
be competent for sth.(doing sth.);
be competent + to v.;
be competent as sth.;
be competent at / in sth.
She is competent for her work.
Is he competent as an accountant?
Mary is competent in her field.
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leisure: n. free time; time at one’s
own disposal
• 你空闲时间做些什么？
• What do you do in your leisure time?
• at leisure有空, 闲着无事; 从从容容地
• at one‘s leisure空闲的时候; 方便时
wait sb.'s leisure等待某人有空时
• draw / get / receive one‘s salary领取薪水
boost / raise salaries增加薪水
cut / reduce / slash salaries 减少薪水
live beyond salary 入不敷出
• salary, wage，pay & fees
• salary,这些名词都可表示“工资、收入”之意。
指按年定下，按月或星期平均给予的报酬，指脑力劳动者的
薪水。
wage，多用复数形式，指按小时、日或星期的报酬，通常
指体力劳动者的工资。
pay是个通用词，可取代salary与wage。
• fees指提供某种服务收取的固定费用。
• 1. Tax and insurance are deducted from
your wages .
• 2. Teachers, government officials and
clerks receive salaries
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• 3. School fees are high in that country.
• 4. He doesn't like the job, but the pay is
good.
protest
• vi. express strong objection (often used together with
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against, at, about )
• He protested to the boss that he was overworked.
• n. statement of objection
• The tourists protested about the bad service at the
restaurant.
• Steel workers made / lodged / entered a protest against
wage reduction.
• The delegate walked out of the conference room in
protest of the proposal.
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Collocation:
enter / lodge / make a protest提出抗议
under protest被迫地; 持异议地; 抗议地
without protest乖乖地; 心甘情愿地; 毫无反
对表示地
• protest against抗议, 反对, 对…表示不满
• constitute vt. form; make up
• Seven days constitute a week
• Nine planets constitute the solar system.
• straw n. 稻草；麦秸
• It seemed as if the words were merely
straw. 好像那些话只是些废话。
• That's the last straw. 我再也受不住了！
• 1) sth. expected or considered probable; possibility可能
性; 前景
• Unfortunately, there is little prospect of seeing these big
questions answered.
• 遗憾的是，几乎没有可能看到这些重大问题得到解答。
2) chances of future success成功的机会; 前途
• There are bright prospects for you if you accept the
position.
• I chose to work abroad to improve my career prospects.
• 我选择到国外工作，以增进我的事业成功的机会。
• ultimate a. 最后的；最终的；终极的
• What was his ultimate goal? 他的最终目标
是什么?
• The sun is the ultimate store of power. 太
阳是能量之本。
Useful Expressions
1. 申请
apply for
2. 地方报纸
local newspaper
3. 教师职位
teaching post
4. 在…郊区
in a suburb of
5. 手头拮据
be short of money
6. 做…的可能性很小
the chance of doing sth. is slim
7. 结果
as a result
8. 太沮丧以至于不感到紧张
too depressed to feel nervous
9. 挣扎着活下来
struggle to survive
10. 繁忙的大街
11. 布满皱纹的前额
busy main road
a wrinkled forehead
12. 不以为然的神态
with an air of disapproval
13. 散发出气味
smell of
14. 根据…判断
judging by
15. …的极为重要的组成部分
a vital part of
16. 重视…
attach much importance to
17. 没有多少共同语言
have very little in common
18. 从…到…不等
range from … to …
19. 教学计划
teaching set-up
20. 轮流做…
do sth. in turn
21. 享受闲暇之乐
enjoy leisure
22. 终于使人不能忍受的最后一击
the last straw
After-class Work
• 1. Role Play
• Directions: This story can be performed in
groups. Student A, B, C, … act as Michael,
Michael’s parents, headmaster, headmaster’s
wife and so on. The first episode (幕) takes
place in Michael’s family where Michael tells his
parents his plan to apply for the position in the
school. The second episode takes place in the
headmaster’s study.
• 2. Write a paragraph of 100-120 words.
• Direction: Imagine you will go for a job
interview, how can you do it successfully?