Unit 3 Getting Ready for the Future Career

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Unit 3Getting Ready for the Future Career
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Pre-listening Questions

• What jobs do you like to do in the future?
• What jobs do you think will be the hottest jobs
  in the 21th century?

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Part I. Warming up

• A. Key words experience applicants bachelors
  degree resume qualified position candidates
• You are going to hear some advertisements for
  certain job vacancies. Listen and fill in the
  missing information.
• 1. Position cook
• Qualifications
• ? experience
• ? work on weekends
• Way of contact call 2359739

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• 2. Vocabulary
• bachelor degrees (B. A/ B. S.)
• bachelor of arts bachelor of science
• resume
• curriculum vitae (C.V.)
• Position English and math teachers
• Qualifications ? a bachelors degree
• ? teaching certificate

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• 3. Vocabulary
• image
• general impression that a person, firm, product,
  etc. gives to the public reputation
• How can we improve our public image.
• administration
• management of public or business affairs.
• Position Marketing Communication Supervisor
• Qualifications ? Business Administration
• ? pc and presentation
• Way of contact 354 16493

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• 4. dynamic
• having a lot of ideas and enthusiasm energetic
  and forceful
• She's young and dynamic and will be a great
  addition to the team.Position Area Sales
  Manager
• Offers to employees careers and extensive
• Qualifications
• ? hardworking initiated quick
• ? challenging
• ? mobile travel extensively
• Way of contact expected salary recent photo
  385 Syracuse, NY 15835

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• 5. Vocabulary
• turnover
• the amount of business transacted during a
  given period of time.
• The company has an annual turnover of 75
  million.
• in excess of
• greater than, more than,
• The book sold in excess of a million
  copies
• mobile able to change class, occupation, or
  place of residence easily and often
• Position Buyer
• Offers to employees
• ? competitive salary and benefits package
• ? career development

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• Qualifications ?business or engineering
• ? 2-3 years
• ? good command of English
• ? communication interpersonal skills
• ? work in teams
• Way of Contact contact phone number a copy of
  diploma to 943 West Avenue Syracuse,
• NY 18640

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• 6. audit
• a formal examination of an organization's
  or an individual's financial records often for
  the purpose of uncovering fraud or inaccurate tax
  returns
• ??, ??, ??Position Accountant
• Qualifications ? accounting or auditing
• ? strong computer skills
• ? 3 years trading companies
• Way of contact education certificate, ID card
  copy photo to 404, South 7th street, NYC

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B. Key words hottest jobs

• Listen and fill in the blanks.
• web designer
• the hottest jobs
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• 1. Vocabulary
• tissue mass of cells forming the body of an
  animal or a plant.
• Tissues have been destroyed and a scar has
  formed.
• Key Tissue engineers
• Skin on the market growing organs in test tubes.

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• 2. Vocabulary
• genetic of genes genetic information
• gene unity in a chromosome which controls
  heredity
• DNA deoxyribonucleic acid (the basic constituent
  of the gene)
• defect fault or lack that spoils a person or
  thing
• therapy any treatment designed to relieve or
  cure an illness or a disability
• molecule smallest unit into which a substance
  can divided without a change in its chemical
  nature.
• A molecule of water consists of two atoms of
  hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.
• Key Genetic programmers
• defects smart certain cancers

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• 3. Vocabulary
• pharmacology
• a scientific study of drugs and their use in
  medicine
• pharmacologic of pharmacology
• livestock animals kept on a farm for use or
  profit, e.g. cattle or sheep
• laden loaded or weighed
• e.g. trees laden with apples
• Key
• Farmers crops and livestock proteins
  vaccine-carrying cows sheep and goats.

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• 4. Vocabulary
• modify change slightly, esp. to make it less
  extreme or to improve it.
• fiddling trick
• Key
• food monitors
• fast-growing fish and freeze-resistant fruits

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• 5. Vocabulary
• handyman
• person who is clever at doing household repairs,
  etc or who is employed to do odd jobs
• daunt discourage sb. frighten
• video cassette recorder VCR
• digital versatile disc (DVD)
• 3-D three dimensions
• toaster electrical device for toasting slices of
  bread

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• abuse wrong or bad use
• diagnostics finding out the nature of an illness
  by observing its symptoms
• ambient on all sides surrounding
• hijack seize control of a vehicle, esp an
  aircraft in order to force it to go to a new
  destination, to take its passengers hostage or to
  steal its cargo

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• Key Hot-line handyman
• reprogramming
• power up
• giving abuse
• home electronics
• video phone

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• 6. Key
• narrow casters
• personalized
• media and advertisers
• tastes and smells

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Part II. Painting for pay

• Key words college student business experience
  summer student painters real business world
  responsibilities

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Vocabulary

• tuition
• fee paid for education
• payroll
• list of people employed by a company and the
  amount of money to be paid to each of them
• contract
• legally binding agreement

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• Pennsylvania A state of the eastern United
  States. Pennsylvania played a crucial role in the
  American Revolution and in the formation of the
  new republic. Harrisburg is the capital and
  Philadelphia the largest city.
• Toronto the capital and largest city of Ontario,
  Canada, in the southern part of the province on
  Lake Ontario.
• the largest city in Canada
• Indiana A state of the north-central United
  States.

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• A. Pre-listening discussion
• 1. Have you ever had a part-time or full-time job
  in summer? If yes, what jobs have you had? If no,
  are you going to get one in the future?
• 2. Is it common for students in your school to
  have a part-time job?
• 3. Do you think it is good for students to have a
  part-time or full-time job in summer? Why or why
  not?

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• B. Listen to the passage. While listening, focus
  on the major points and then choose the correct
  answers to complete the following sentences.
• 1. B.
• 2. A
• 3. B
• 4. A
• C. Listen again and decide whether the statements
  are true or false.
• 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T 7. F

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• D. Listen again. Focus on Mark Laratondas
  responsibilities at Student Painters. Fill in the
  blanks below by using key words.
• 1. Hiring painters
• 2. Doing advertising
• 3. Providing equipment
• 4. Taking care of payroll
• 5. Writing contract
• 6. Doing final inspection with customer

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Part III. Choosing a Career

• I. Vocabulary
• career
• profession or occupation with opportunities for
  advancement and promotion.
• I chose a teaching career.
• draw up
• to write out
• The Declaration of Independence was drawn up by
  Thomas Jefferson.

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• bear in mind
• remember
• Please bear these questions in your mind when you
  are reading the text.
• partially
• not completely partly
• aptitude
• natural ability or skill
• She has an aptitude for music.

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• weigh
• consider carefully the relative value or
  importance of sth.
• The patients family has to weigh the advantages
  of the operation against the risk involved.
• long-term ??
• prospects
• chance of success outlook
• The job has no prospects i.e. offers little
  possibility of promotion.

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• a fund of
• a stock of or supply of sth.
• a fund of jokes, knowledge, experience
• contentment
• state of being content
• He left with a smile of contentment.
• haphazard
• careless without plan or order
• The books are spread on the desk in a haphazard
  fashion.

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KeyEX.A

• Question 1 15 to 20 years
• Question 2 my abilities and aptitudes my
  interests and aims
• Question 3. find success and satisfaction
• Question 4. the immediate advantages the
  long-term prospects

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• Question 5. my guidance counselor, my parents,
  teachers and my headmaster
• Question 6. have I made a real study of jobs?
• Question 7. regard a means of getting money my
  future happiness and contentment a combination

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EX. B

• 1.       determine/ friends/ husband or wife/
  where you live/ recreational activities/ other
  aspects.
• 2.       weak points/ strong ones/ what kind /
  you want to be
• 3.       what / other people / important and
  challenging/ talk to people/ watch/ at work

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• 4.       satisfaction/ not just start years to
  come/ importance of education/ promotion/
  preference/ education persons
• 5.       experience/ benefit/ help / think about/
  stimulate /really want to do/ offer suggestions/
  take advantage of/ qualities and qualifications
• 6.       read about / study/ over and over again

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Part IV. Short Talk on Listening Skills

• Key 1. unpleasant frustrating understand
  stops gone writing down or speaking out
• 2. comprehension and production3 communication
  stages the gap The inability should not
  cannot comprehend it the first goal
• 3. some possible traps equal attention all the
  details a limited amount of select and
  simplify really important remember essential
  a purpose grasp the key words and the main
  points complicated simple a much smar