Unit 1
Jobs and Occupations
Discussion
·How would you categorize jobs by occupation (for example, jobs in accounting, engineering, information technology, to name a few)?
·How would globalization affect the job market? What challenges does a job applicant face and what qualification is an applicant require to have in order to compete in the global job market?
·What do you think of “home office”or working at home?
Section ⅠListening Strategies
Listening for the Main Ideas (Part Ⅰ)
Part ⅠDefinition
Efficient listeners listen to acquire the main ideas from the message. You should, therefore, concentrate primarily on the main points rather than small details. If your goal is to understand what the listening text is mainly about and to recall, at a later time, no more than 25 percent of what you have listened to today, you should strive to concentrate on the key concepts rather all the details.
There are several ways you can become in identifying the main ideas. First, understand clearly the purpose and direction of your listening task. For the current purpose, you will strive to get the main idea of the entire message and understand the main concepts in the text. Second, you can get familiar with the positions where most main ideas would occur. For example, it may occur in the title, or shortly after
the introduction of the topic, or it may even be repeated throughout the speech since the speaker would often repeat main points. The main points may be stated again in the summary of the speech. It is also possible that the main ideas are subtly implied and suggested, so you should listen to the whole text and guess the meaning from the context.
Part ⅡConsolidation
Listen to the passage and write down the main idea.
Section ⅡListening Comprehension
Part ⅠDialogues
Dialogue 1
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.Why would you think enthusiasm is very important for a job?
2.Why would you think interpersonal skills are necessary for a particular job? Vocabulary
1.antagonistic [ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk] adj. showing opposition
2.strike up: to cause to start a conversation, singing, playing, etc.
B Listening
Main Idea
Listening to the dialogue and take notes to answer the following questions.
1.Do you think this is a naturally—occuring conversation or a conversation in a
movie? How can you tell?
2.Where do you think this conversation most probably takes place? Who are the
two female speakers? What is the first speaker’s name? What is the second speaker’s name? What is this conversation all about?
3.What do Ruth and Barbara feel about their own jobs respectively?
4.What do you think Barbara’s problem with her job?
5.What is the narrator’s comment on Ruth and Barbara respectively?
Details and Inferences
Now listen to the dialogue again and decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F].
1.[T] [F] Barbara is unhappy with her job because of her boss.
2.[T] [F] Barbara’s unhappiness with her job has nothing to do with her company.
3.[T] [F] For Ruth, it is tiresome and unpleasant to meet the public because of her
hostile attitude.
4.[T] [F] Ruth had the same feeling with her job as Barbara at the beginning.
