高等院校研究生英语系列教材课件Unit 1 Planning your future career

高等院校研究生英语系列教材,综合教程（上）INTEGRATED COURSE,Unit 1,Unit 1 Planning your future career,Content,Starting outReading FocusReading MorePractical TranslationFocused WritingFinal Project,Task 1 Step One Work together with your partner and fill in the table with the attributes that you think make a good employer and a good employee on page 2.,Starting outTask 1,Reference:,Starting outTask 1,Step Two Choose the most important three attributes for people in each role, and give your reasons.Reference: employee: good health, cooperativeness employer: good health, great communicative skills,*Good health is the foundation for career development, whatever role one plays. For an employee, cooperativeness ensures the smooth progress of a work project, since many projects involve the cooperation of many workers. As an employer, he must be good at Communicating with different people, which is the guarantee of a pleasant interpersonal relationship in his business, along with the successful building up of the social network.,Starting outTask 1,Step ThreeBased on your work done in the previous two steps, tell each other what you would like to be after graduation, an employer or an employee? Give reasons for your choice.Words or phrases for your reference: run a business, in possession of business, be tolerant of be considerate of , ambitious, a sense of achievement manage, endure, confident, good-tempered, cooperative open-minded, punctual, positive, flexible, generous,Starting outTask 1,Task 2 Read the four cases of job hopping on page 2 and judge whether they are beneficial or disadvantageous to the persons concerned.,Starting outTask 2,Task 3 Read the following two pieces of parental advice on page 3 and discuss with your partner which one you would follow.,Starting out,Whatever you decide to do with your life, make sure its something practical. You will want to be able to make a good living for yourself and your family.2. We dont care what you set out to study; just make sure its something you enjoy.,Starting outTask 3,Job market in USThis years college graduates in US are faced with a hard test of job market . Listen carefully to a report on the high unemployment rate for American youth this summer and do the following exercise:,Starting out,1. The unemployment rate of people at 20 to 42 age bracket in May was 14.7%, five tenths percentage points lower than the national rate . Correction: The unemployment rate of people at 20 to 24 age bracket in May was 14.7%, five percentage points higher than the national rate.2. According to NACE, employment situation in 2007 was more optimistic, with more college graduates finding jobs and with a higher starting pay than in this year.,Starting out,F,T,Exercise Directions: Based on the report youve just heard, tell whether the following statements are True or False, make corrections if they are false.,3. Taking an internship program is an effective way to catch public attention.Correction: Taking an internship program is an effective way to get noticed , and then a job.4. Job market predictions tells that in the next 8 years graduates with a degree in biomedical engineering are promising to secure a good job.5. Sarah Kramer found a job with a major IT company in Washington, after applying to about a hundred and fifteen jobs and going on fifty interviews.Correction: Sarah Kramer found a job with a major consulting company in Washington, after applying to about a hundred and fifty jobs and going on fifteen interviews.,Starting out,F,F,T,Audio scriptJob Marketan Extra Hard Test for New College Graduates 10 June 2010 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. June means one more big test for many students finishing college - a test of the job market. Wish them luck. Americans age twenty to twenty-four faced an unemployment rate in May of fourteen and seven-tenths percent. That was five percentage points higher than the national rate. This week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said his “best guess“ is for a continued economic recovery. But the central bank chief expects unemployment to remain high for some time because of slow job creation. So where does that leave this year's graduates?,Starting out,Audio script The National Association of Colleges and Employers says about one-fourth of those who applied for a job have found one. NACE says that is up a little from last year. But the number is down sharply from two thousand seven, the year before the financial crash. Starting pay is also down. Josh Safran graduated from American University in Washington with a business degree. He is still looking for a job. (JOSH SAFRAN) “Once you get noticed by a company, it gets a lot easier, but its so hard to get noticed because theres so many people looking for so few jobs.“ One way to get noticed is through an internship program, says Reuben Smith-Vaughn, another graduate of American University.,Starting out,Audio script (REUBEN SMITH-VAUGHN) “I know I personally got my job that way. And the people that worked there before me got their jobs that way. So I think its a key when getting a job.“ Internships may offer little or no money. Some students even pay for them. But NACE says ninety-two percent of the employers it asked had plans to hire interns this year. The Occupational Outlook Handbook published by the Labor Department offers job market predictions through twenty eighteen. The highest growth is expected in biomedical engineering. Twenty-two year old Sarah Kramer just got her degree in biomedical engineering from Columbia University in New York. She found a job with a major consulting company in Washington. But her search was not easy.,