超越概念第三册unit2学生用书
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 [?n?t?ɡ??n?st?k] 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.
5.[T] [F] Ruth has made up her mind and she is going to look for another job. Dialogue 2
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.What do you think of working at home?
2.What are the advantages and disadvantages of working at home? Vocabulary
1.fusion [?fju:??n] n. the process or result of joining two or more things together
to form one
2.seep [si:p] v. to flow slowly and in small quantities through sth. or into sth.
3.leak [li:k] v. to allow liquid or gas to get in or out through a small hole or crack.
4.threshold [?θre?h?uld] n. the floor or ground at the bottom of a doorway,
considered as the entrance to a building or room.
5.Sci-fi n. science fiction
6.gadget [?g?d??t] n. a small tool or device that does sth. useful
B Listening
Main Idea
Listen to an interview and take notes to answer the following questions.
1.The first speaker’s name is Liane Hansen, the host and interviewer. How does
Liane Hansen feel about working at home?
2.What is the second speaker’s name? What is the title of her book? What is her
viewpoint towards working at home?
Details and Inferences
Ⅰ.Listen to the interview again and continue to take notes to complete the following exercise.
1.Describe Jackson’s own experience working at home.
2.How does Olivier Marc’s quotation, “Home allows us to create an area of peace,
clam and security, for once we have crossed the threshold and shut the door behind us, we can be at one with ourselves,”support Maggie Jackson’s viewpoint towards the subject?
Ⅱ. Listen to the interview again and circle the best answer to each question.
1.How does the interview’s personal experience illustrate the theme of blurred
boundaries between work and home?
A.Her daughter moved out of her mother’s home to a studio apartment.
B.The interview with Maggie Jackson’s was conduct in the interview’s home.
C.Her technician came to her home to help her conduct an interview with Maggie
Jackson in New York.
2.How many times do you think Maggie Jackson hurried her kids to bed so she
could get back to work?
A.Only once.
B.Several times.
C.Every night.
3.What does Liane Hansen think about the boundaries of her new home office?
A.They have been set physically.
B.They have been set psychologically.
C.They have been set both physically and psychologically.
4.What does Olivier Marc’s quotation mean?
A.The architecture of the home is still important.
B.Home is a place of comfort and protection.
C.We are in danger of our work and home life becoming blurred.
Part ⅠPassages
Passage 1
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.What do you think of job-hunting situations in China?
2.Do you think there is job growth every year in China? Why?
Vocabulary
1.recession [ri?se??n] n. an extend decline in general business activity
2.sluggish [?sl?g??] adj. slow-moving
3.paradigm [?p?r??da?m] n. a pattern or model
4.temp [temp] n.a person, esp. a typist or an office worker, employed on a
temporary basis
5.shrink [?ri?k] v. to become or cause to become smaller in size
6.cautious [?k?:??s] adj. showing or having caution; wary; prudent
B Listening
Main Idea
Listen to the passage to understand the main idea. Take notes and write down the main idea briefly.
Details and Inferences
Now listen again and fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. There’s little dispute that U.S. job growth has been well below normal since the last recession ended in November 2001. But rather than strengthening anytime soon, the labor market may not pick up much, or at all, at least for the (1) , a growing number of labor market experts and Wall Street economists are saying. “I do think we’re in a new era now in which job growth will
(2) for quite some time,”former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said in
a comment e-mailed to CNN/Money. The economy created nearly (3) jobs last year, an improvement from the 2002—2003 period, when there was a net loss of jobs. But that’s still well below the average of any recovery that’s lasted this long since World War Ⅱ, according to Anthony Chan at JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management. “We’re basically missing (4)
jobs at this stage of the expansion. You could even call it the case of the missing
jobs,”Chan said, nothing the job market’s now in a “ .”
Jared Bernstein of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimated that the number was closer to 3 million. With 132.6 million Americans working, according to the Labor Department, and another 7.7 million unemployed, the labor market in the United States is obviously (6)
. Among the factors hurting job growth in the current expansion: companies facing (7) from overseas, especially from China and Latin America; productivity growing at better than double the historical average; (8) ; the growing use of temp workers; (9) . “I can’t see the state of job creation changing for the better anytime soon,”said Richard Yamarone, chief economic at Argus Research in New York. He noted that (10) , on top of health care costs growing well above the pace of inflation.
Passage 2
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.Are you pessimistic or optimistic about the job market nowadays? Why?
2.What do you expect to do as your future job?
Vocabulary
1.household [?haush?uld]n.a domestic unit consisting of the members of a
family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants
2.edge up: to push one’s way into (a space)
3.Hispanic [his?p?nik] n. a Spanish-speaking person
4.reentrant [ri?'entr?nt] adj. reentering; pointing inward n. the people who reenter
5.civilian [si?vilj?n] adj. of or relating to civilians or civil life; nonmilitary
6.cut back: to discharge from a group or number
7.marginal [?mɑ:d?in?l] adj. of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a
border, or an edge
8.prior [?prai?] adj. preceding in time or order
B Listening
Main Idea
Ⅰ. Listen to the passage once and understand the main idea. Take notes and write down the main idea briefly.
Details and Inferences
Ⅱ. Now listen again and decide whether the following statements are true [T] or false [F]. Use your notes to help you and discuss your answer in a small group.
1.[T] [F] The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and
over) continued to trend up over the month, reaching 6.7 million.
2.[T] [F] Among the unemployed, the number of reentrants to the labor force rose
by 805,000 over the month.
3.[T] [F] In April, the civilian labor force participation rate decreased by 0.3
percentage point to 65.2 percent.
4.[T] [F] About 2.4 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in
April, who were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
5.[T] [F] Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because
of school attendance or family responsibilities.
Passage 3
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.Can you give some suggestion that can help the government ease the tension
of people’s job-hunting efforts?
2.Could you give some advice to the university students on how to become more
competitive in job-hunting?
Vocabulary
1.patchy [?p?t?i:] adj. irregular in quality, occurrence, intensity, etc.
2.redundancy [r??d?nd?nsi:] n. the state or condition of being redundant or
superfluous, esp. superfluous in one’s job
3.unblock [??n?bl?k] v. to remove a blockage from (a pipe, etc.)
4.GCSE:General Certificate of Secondanry Education in the British education
system
B Listening
Main Idea
Listen to the passage once and understand the main idea. Take notes and write down the main idea briefly.
Details and Inferences
Ⅰ.Now listen again and answer the following questions. Then work with a partner to discuss the answers.
1.According to the passage, what will the AACS offer? What does AACS stand for?
2.How many areas will the AACS be piloted prior to the national launch in 2010?
3.According to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, what kind
of people mainly faced barriers which held them back in life?
4.What did the educational or organization Edge and the Skills commission find
in March?
5.According to your understanding, what is the whole passage mainly about?
Ⅱ. Now listen to the passage again and decide whether each statement below is true [T] or false [F]. If a statement is false, change it into a true stamen. Discuss your answers in a small group.
1.[T] [F] A small fee will be charged for those who attend the “one-stop-shop”
service, but the service will be freely available to those most in need from 2010.
2.[T] [F] After the national in 2010,the AACS will be piloted in ten areas.
3.[T] [F] According to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, many
people, particularly mothers, the low-paid and the unemployed, faced barriers which held them back in life.
4.[T] [F] Research by the department found that adults who gained a vocational
qualification at GCSE level were more likely to go to further learning, leading in turn to higher wages.
5.[T] [F] A study by the educational organization Edge and the Skills Commission
found government-backed careers advice for youngsters and adults was successful.
Part ⅢNews
News 1
Vocabulary
1.seminary [?sem??neri:] n. a college where priests, ministers are trained. Listen to the news for the main idea first. Listen again and answer the following questions.
1.What is the shooting called by the authorities?
2.How many people were killed in the shooting?
3.What is the exact place of the shooting?
4.What killed nine people inside the Middle Eastern country in 2006?
News 2
Listen to the news and get the main idea first. Listen again and decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F].
1.[T] [F] Clean-up crews are working overtime in Ohio, after a winter storm
slammed the state over the weekend.
2.[T] [F] About 20 inches of snow fell on both Cleveland and Cincinnati.
3.[T] [F] The Midwest was struck by heavy snow.
4.[T] [F] All the vehicles were prohibited from hitting the road.
Part ⅣDictation
You will hear a short passage three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole passage. Second, listen and write. Third, listen to the passage again at a normal speed and check your work. Finally, you will have 2 minutes to complete your work.
Part ⅤVideo Clip
Watch the video “Leadership Trainer Builds International Youth Activist Movement”
and take notes. Then discuss the important of student exchange among countries in today’s global village.
Section ⅢListening for Fun
You are going to hear several people give their opinions on whether employers should monitor their employees while at work. Listen to the four viewpoints on workplace monitoring. Listen again, and share your notes and reactions in small groups.
Section ⅣSupplementary Listening
Listen to the passage and write down the main idea.
Section ⅤStory Series
A Listen to Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and answer the following
questions.
1.What is the main purpose of this book, according to the author?
2.How is St. Petersburg portrayed?
3.What kind of person is Aunt Polly, as introduced in Chapter 1?
B Listen to Chapter 2 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and answer the following questions.
1.What narrative mode is used in the novel?
2.Why did Tom try again and again to attract other kids paint the fence?
3.What kind of law of human action did Tom discover, according to the story? Notes:
Unit 2
Artistic Issues
Discussion
·How much do you know about art history?
·How much do you know about the categories of art?
·What do you like best the art?
Section ⅠListening Strategies
Listening for the Main Ideas (Part Ⅰ)
Part ⅠDefinition
You can learn to identify transitions that the speaker uses to introduce or discuss the main idea. These transition devices could be sentences, phrase or words. The following are some examples.
The list of sentences includes:
“I want to make one impression on you, and that is…”
“Today, we are going to discuss…”
“Simply stated, the issue is…”
“Let us today examine why…”
“Today, we will be covering…”
“There are three methods that we…”
“Our subject this evening is…”
“And so we can conclude that…”
“In conclusion then, I want you to understand that…”
“To summarize…”
“In summing up, we must remember that…”
“As can be seen…”
“Following this step is…”
“A somewhat similar method is…”
The list of phrases of words includes:
“first”
“along with”
“not only…but also…”
“finally”
“next in important”
“in addition to this”
“on the other hand”
“also”
“above all”
“of even more importance”
“in connection with this”
“equally important”
“together with this”
Part ⅡConsolidation
Listen to the following passage and try to identify transitions that the speaker uses to introduce the main idea.
Section ⅡListening Comprehension
Part ⅠDialogues
Dialogue 1
A Prelistening
Discussion
1.What is your experience on painting?
2.Can you draw pictures using computer tools?
Vocabulary
1.collage [k??lɑ:?,] n. (picture made by) fixing pieces of paper, cloth, photographs,
etc. to a surface
2.replicate [?repl??ke?t] v.to make or do something again in exactly the same
manner
B Listening
Main Idea
Listening to the dialogue and write down the main idea briefly.
Details and Inferences
Ⅰ. Listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions.
1.Why wouldn’t Shona consider herself an artist?
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