1. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Lesson 16 Building a Successful Career

2. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Task 1 What is “a successful career” in your opinion? Step 1 Key words and phrases □ a. making enough money □ b. making achievements that your family can be proud of □ c. realizing your value □ d. having achieved your goal of life □ e. enjoying doing your work □ f. having flexible work hours □ g. having a job with little responsibility, but making good money □ h. having many opportunities to travel □ i. becoming famous

3. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Task 2 How do you build a successful career? If you want to be successful, you must _______. A. be loyal D. be organized B. be honest E. be competitive C. be confident F. be committed Why?

4. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 advice respect your boss and coworkers be confident develop good relationship be organized be loyal to the company be competitive Step 2 How to Be Successful

5. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 makes your job more difficult in your mind Why makes people avoid competition? Fear takes away your confidence

6. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 How can we beat our fear? list the things you fear to do do those things Do the things you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Do it now

7. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Learn more My Fear List ( ) 1.I dare not walk in the dark alone. ( ) 2. I dare not sing English songs. ( ) 3. I’m afraid of talking to strangers. ( ) 4. I fear to jump into the swimming pool. ( ) 5. I fear to speak my mind in class. ( ) 6. I dare not speak to the class. ( ) 7. I don't dare to take a taxi alone. a. I will try to listen more and practice more. b. I will try to do it with the help of a teacher. c. I will try it next time. d. I will have a good preparation and speak in class next time. e. I will try my best to talk to them next time. f. I will try to speak it up in class. g. I’m going to have a try this afternoon. c a e b f d g

8. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Study the following lines quoted from a poem and then discuss the questions. Step 3 Be the Best of Whatever You Are If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail; If you can’t be the sun, be a star; It isn’t by size that you win or you fail; Be the best of whatever you are.

9. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Questions 1.What does the sun mean? 2. What does the star mean? 3. What is the most important thing for one to be successful according to the poet? Do you agree with him?

10. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Listen and choose the advice given by the expert. Dr. Lin, we will soon graduate. We'd like to ask you for some advice. My first question is... how do we have a successful career? □ 1. Try to be yourself in your work. □ 2. Try to make friends with your boss. □ 3. Do the job you like and money will follow. □ 4. Develop good people skills and good work habits. □ 5. Try to make more money at the very beginning. □ 6. Don't put off your work until tomorrow. □ 7. Try to be organized. √ √ √ √ √

11. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Adjectives competitive considerate active reliable successful Step 4 Language Work Nouns action reliability success consideration competition Study the table and put the adjectives and nouns into the right places. VerbsAdjectivesNouns createcreativecreativity succeed compete consider act rely successful considerate competitive active success reliable action consideration competition reliability

12. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 Select the suitable words from the above table to fill in the blanks. 1.The businessman is very successful. He _________ many years ago. His _______ makes him more confident. 2. He dares to compete with his classmates. He is very __________ in his study. He likes ___________. succeeded success 3. The students are very ______ in their own play. They all _______ in the play. 4. He considered all the possible problems before doing business. He is very _________. 5. He is a _______ person. You can always rely on him. 6. He always creates interesting toys for the children. He is very _______ and children like his _________. competitive competition active act considerate reliable creative creativity

13. 华东师范大学出版社中等职业教育分社 You should be able to say and write: Knowledge Check 1. at least three pieces of advice for a successful career 2. three things that you fear to do and then say what you’re going to do with them

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