Unit Three Career Planning
Background1. Decision Making and Career
2. Ignorance is bliss
If you stay ignorant, you’ll feel happy
It is similar in China.
Summary
The career planning is the keystone of the passage. It is not
necessary for you to do as others in career planning because
different people have different idea about it in different stage.
Then the author analyze some common mistakes of young
Students, such as complacency, defensive avoidance
He shows the keys to career planning:
1.Study yourself. 2. Write your career goals down.
3. Review your plans and progress periodically with another
Person. 4. If the career doesn’t fit you, you can start over.
What are they?
Director surgeon air hostess pilot cook/chef conductor
Lawyer receptionist policeman butcher doctor/physician
Auto-repairman scientist/ research worker nurse
Exercise 1
Cause: Most jobs have an image or a stereotype attached to
them.
Effect: Young people may choose their careers under the
influence of these false images. They may even avoid certain
careers because they have a negative image.
Evidence: Produced by a survey into children’s attitudes to
different professions.
Respondents: Children
Method: Questionnaire--- asking them which statement was
most true about each of the ten professions: physicists,
lawyers, economists, mechanical engineers, electrical
engineers, and civil engineers
Purpose: To find out the children’s impressions and
prejudices
Exercise 2
Interviewer: And the results?
Sociologist: Well, they were rather striking concerning one
profession in particular, the poor old physicist(engineer).
Of all the jobs listed (mentioned), he came out really much
Worth (worse) than you might expect. The last (vast) majority
of children (19%<90%>in the case of the mechanical
engineers) thought that engineering had (was) a “dirty job”.
They also thought the job was of “low station(status)” and
“subordinate”; that is, the engineer is more likely to give (take)
Orders than to take (give) them. Oh, and secure (insecure) too.
The lonely (only) other person they thought more likely to
actually lose his job was the sales representative. But, I must
say there were good points too. Engineering was sensed (seen)
to be “ interesting, well-paid” work.
Interviewer: Hmm, not such a busy (rosy) picture, really.
Sociologist: No… but it got better when the children were
asked about how they imagined the engineer as a person. The
majority of the children chose negative (positive) comments,
accept (except) that they thought the engineer was likely to be
poorly rather than well dressed.
Exercise 3
1) The survey showed that among the ten professions, the lawyer came out first, followed by the accountant, the scientist, the physicist, the economist, the civil engineer, the electrical engineer, the mechanical engineer, the sales representative and the estate agent.
2) The most serious implication of the survey is the children’s ignorance of the importance of the engineer’s role in society.
Exercise 4
Samples
1) --- The lawyer seems to be rich and enjoy a high status in the West. But it’s not the case in China.
2) --- The accountant must be very careful and cautious.
3) --- The scientist and the physicist are always knowledgeable, but lead a simple life.
4) --- The economist is good at analyzing the economic strategy and planning his money.
5) --- The sales representative always tries to sell his products. He is usually talkative and persuasive.
6) --- The estate agent seems to make a lot of money.
7) --- The engineers deal with practical work. They must be very diligent, but don’t enjoy a high status in China.
I often have prejudices against the sales representative and
estate agent. I think they often persuade and even tempt
people into buying their products which are not so good as
they say.
3) They are:
--- pay;
--- reputation;
--- social status;
--- personal interests;
--- public opinions;
--- working environment/ conditions.
课文赏析及写作风格 本文是一篇说明性文章。 作者开篇便提出问题 : 择业
计划并不一定要遵循常规的或合乎逻辑的步骤。然后作者便从各方面列举事例,证明这一观点。到文章结尾,作者总结全文告诉我们:任何人都不能预计自己的未来,但我们却可以塑造自己未来的事业。
写作风格 列数字课外阅读I 课文赏析 如果知道毕业后想干什么工作,就应该在毕业前找一
份工作,这是文章的中心思想。人的一生要经历许多事,但是找一个有助于我们未来生活的暑假工作非常重要,这是作者对我们的建议。
写作风格 这是一篇叙议结合的文章,全文朴实自然,文风平易
近人,读来亲切万分。II 课文赏析 在你做职业规划时,要尝试许多不同的工作,适应不
同的环境,主动承担各种任务。有六种基本职业:现实型职业、常规型职业、研究型职业、艺术型职业、社会型职业、领导型职业,最重要的是因材择业。
Vocabulary&Phrase&Sentence
Acceptable
Accept & receive
She received his invitation to dinner, but didn’t accept it.
Bliss blissful bliss-less
Bliss& happiness& joy
When he heart that he was admitted to Peking University, his
heart was in a bliss.
Clerical
Clerical error clerical staff clerical work
He was an inferior clerical.
Complacency
Complacence complacent complacently
Complaisant
Complacency pride
Contingency
Contingence contingent
Contingency & necessity
In case of contingency; contingency fund ;
Contingency reserve
Crystallize crystal
Crystal crystallize
Downward
Give the rope a downward pull
Go downward politically
Children of six and downwards
Efficient
Effective
Effectual
A lawyer needs an ____ secretary.
A. Inefficient B. efficient C. effective D. sufficient
estimate:
Estimator estimation underestimate overestimate
1.assess;
The age of this prehistoric skeleton is estimated at 30 000
years.
2. Esteem regard
He is highly esteemed among his fellow workers.
3.predict
By rough estimate
The time and labor required may less than the estimate.
Flaw
Flawless error/ mistake/ defect/ fault
Indecision is the biggest flaw in her personality.
He made a lot of mistakes in his essay.
Sorry, it was my fault that everyone missed the train.
He was a pitiable man with physical defects.
Foresee
Fore father forego foreground
Foremost foresight
Things turned out to be exactly as he had foreseen.
In the foreseeable future.
Formula
Formative formularize formulate
Formula formulas formulae
A formula for making soup
Formula of integration
Frantically
Be frantic with
He was frantic with fear.
Frantic applause at the end of the opera.
Hastily haste hasten hasty
Hastily hurriedly anxiously quickly rashly
Make haste in haste
More haste, less speed.
Hasty avoid hasty conclusions
I ate a hastily prepared sandwich and shot out the door.
Hop hopper hop-grass jump leap skip
Hop: hop a ride
Implication
Imply implicative implication
Implication suggestion
He used a metaphor, but I couldn’t understand his implication.
The low level of current investment has implications for
future economic growth.
Instability
Stability stabilize stabilization stable
Invent
Invent create discovery
The first safety razor was invented by the company founder
King C. Gillette in 1903.
Luxun created a good many worthy literary works.
Logical
Logical reasonable
A logical conclusion
A logical result
Dialectical logic
I can not understand the logical of her deed.
The scientific quest is grounded in reason and ___ inference
from known facts.
A. Logic B. practical C. magical D. logical
Moral
Morality moralist moralize
Moral standards moral culture a moral obligation
The moral of the story is that “Solidarity is strength”.
The ___ of the story is “No pains, no gains”.
A. Mental B. moral C. morale D. mortal
Occupation
Occupy occupant occupancy occupational
job /work employment Occupation /profession career
When we fill in a form, we will usually write down our name,
Address ___, etc.
A. Job B. occupation C. employment D. profession
Procrastination
Procrastinate procrastinator
pursue pursuable pursuance
Pursuant pursuant to the rules
Our party pursue the lofty goal of realizing communism
In pursuit of
Without guidance, we could not ___ with the chapter, so we
had pause for the teacher.
A. Pursue B. pursuit C. persist D. push
Stigma stigmatize be stigmatized as a coward
Stigmas stigmata
Stigma insult abuse spot dirt
Trend trendy tendency
Many elderly people are now not used to the ___ of modern
living, which they consider is away from the old customs.
A. Tendency B. tend C. trend D. treat
PhraseAt stake: at risk
Your investment will be at stake if the government policy
Changes.
Every so often:
Every so often I would go to the countryside and visit my
grandma.
In case
1.even/ provided that
In case he comes, let me know.
2.for fear that
Please remind me of it again in case I forget.
Resort to
In times of difficulty, I can resort to my mother.
Start over
Let’s start over from the beginning to see if anything goes
wrong.
Take stock of
It was time to take stock of the situation.
Talk over
The obedient child always talked things over with his parents.
I have something important to talk over with you.
Talk about
Talk to/ with
Talk sb. Into doing
Talk around
Talk out
Talk big
Talk at sb.
Sentence1. Career planning includes gathering information about
themselves and about occupations, estimating the probable outcomes of various courses of action and finally choosing
alternatives that we find attractive and feasible.
Alternative that we find attractive and feasible
Find sth.+adj.
Everyone should keep the class room clean.
I think it difficult to cope with this situation.
2. These flaws seen to be associated with the patterns people use to cope with problem.
Associate A with B= connect A with B
Cope with deal with
It’s difficult for a new driver to cope with traffic in this city.
3. People who ignore challenging information about the choices they make demonstrate complacency.
Challenge challenging information
Demonstrate = show; indicate
4. When confronted with a decision and unable to believe they can find an acceptable solution, some people remain calm by resorting to wishful thinking or daydreaming.
Be confronted with=be faced with
Resort to= turn to