文档介绍：Unit 4 Personal Progress & job-hopping
Teaching steps
Ⅰ. Brainstorming
Ⅱ Reading
Ⅲ. Text explanation
Ⅳ Discussion and Exercises
Ⅴ. Post-reading
Ⅶ. Extended information
Brainstorming
Discuss the elements they may consider in choosing their jobs.
An ideal job=:
job security+ good pay+
comfortable environment+
team spirit+ chance to get promoted+
day-care service+ overtime work+ holidays etc.
LOGO
Post-Reading
1
is important for you in a job? And why?
2
job do you like to take, a well-paid job you dislike or a poorly paid job you enjoy?
3
you prefer to be an employer or an employee? Why?
Read and answer the following questions:
Text-reading
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.
is of great importance in personal progress in many parts of the world?
are the traits leading to ess in the United States?
can be said about the relationship between employer and employee in some countries?
Text-reading
do Americans think they are justified in jumping pany pany?
will a er probably start at a lower salary?
Explanation of text
Part 1(Para. 1)
Introduction: The employment practices in America are different from those in many other countries.
① Personal influence is not essential in getting ahead in the United States.
② In the realm of personal progress, the willingness to work hard, scholarship or skill, initiative, an agreeable and outgoing personality, all of these are considered to be the traits which lead to ess.
Difficult language
1 One needs a “godfather”,a “sponsor” means one needs someone to support economically and help him/her move forward in society.
2 trait : a particular quality of a person
3 move upward: to rise in rank / get promoted
Explanation of text
Part 2 (Para. 2)
Other Nations’ view on job-hopping
In some nations it is considered disloyal to quit a job
① Deep reciprocal loyalties between employee and employer.
② Lifelong job security and family honor are