Survival of the fittest
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn about environmental changes of career in the future and relative requirements in need
2. Practice students’ reading and speaking skills
3. Learn and apply reading strategy— text with sentence gaps
4. Consider what students should do to adapt to these changes
5. Increase students’
Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Lead-in
1. Ask 2 questions: 1). After graduation, what major do you plan to choose?
2). Have you decided which job to take in the future?
— do a career planning
2. Introduce the situation and importance of career planning by a chart and come to a conclusion
— success favors only the prepared mind.
3. How to make a career planning:
1). internal factors: personal advantages and interests
2). External factors: environmental changes — the fittest survive
Step2. Reading
1. introduce today’s main task: hold an interview about environmental changes
Suppose you are a professor from Nanjing Normal University, today you come to SCZ to attend an interview about the environmental changes of career. Others play the role of journalists to ask as many questions as possible about environmental changes.
2. skimming the passage
Where do you expect to read such an article?
What does this passage mainly talk about?
3. reading strategy:
1). Introduce some skills:
① topic of paragraph with a sentence gap
② read backwards and forwards to find clues ( nouns, pronouns, adjectives)
③ read missing sentences to highlight clues and linking words
④ match sentences to information in different sections of the text
2). Take gap1 as an example
3). Let students do the 5 gaps left to consolidate the reading strategy
Answers: a, b, f, e, c.
4. canning the passage
Answer questions:
1). What is “future shock”?
2). What job areas have become more important? What less?
3). How will jobs change?
4). How will companies change?
5). What skills will be extremely important?
6). What is the driving force behind these rapid changes?
7). How will the way we work change?
5. Analysis of the structure of the whole passage
Part1. 1-2 para
Part2. 3-6 para
Part3. 7-9 para
Part4. 10 para
Sum up the main idea of each part.
Step3. Interview
Suppose you are a professor from Nanjing Normal University, today you come to SCZ to attend an interview about the environmental changes of career. Others play the role of journalists to ask as many questions as possible about environmental changes.
