1. Learning Unit15

3. How important is it for people to continue their studies after formal education? Look at the pictures, guess what ages are they? Are they teenage students ? What are they doing?

4. What’s it about the world today that makes it necessary to continue learning? The workplace has changed Works from home

5. Lesson 1 The importance of Life-long learning

6. A Lifelong Learning Person 终生学习 Not just learn to answer … 学习不只是为了按部就班地学习正确答案 - But to reason, learn, apply 而是为了推理、思考、应用 - Know why and how 为了知道为什么和如何做 ?

7. Scan the text then match the paragraphs with their topics paragraphs 1 paragraphs 2 paragraphs 3 paragraphs 4 paragraphs 5 Today’s situation about effective life-long learning Habits and attitudes Ideal place to gain life-long learning skills Prepare yourself

8. Read the text and answer the following questions: 1.Why people have to go back to school to continue their studies? 2.Where is an ideal place to gain life-long learning skills? Why? In order to keep up with the fast changing world school Because there you have support and resources, and you are young and naturally more open to learning

9. Read the text again and judge the true or false sentences. Pay attention to the underlined important words 1.In the past, people often worked in the same job. 2.Now, for people to to school from time to time. 3.Changing jobs has become common practice for many people as they,develop new skills and meet new challenges. 4.If you don’t want to in today’s competitive job market, you have to life-long learning. F T T T from graduation till retirement it isn’t common practice go back aim to enrich their work experiences fall behind commit yourself to

10. 5.Effective learning is collecting formal qualifications,and also about forming habits that help you study, developing attitudes that T 6.Time management,note making, analysis and writing are enough for you to learn effective. F 7.School is an ideal place to gain life-long learning. 8.Not many adults feel too busy to develop learning skills. F 9.To keep ourselves up-to-date with any changes that, we should develop learning skills and learn how to learn. T T a matter of come our way make you receptive to learning.

11. 1.Today,however,everyone needs to learn new things constantly on the job and it is common practice for people to go back to school from time to time in order to keep up with the fast changing world. it is common practice to +v. …… 是平常事 Eg: It’s common practice for women to work and earn money to support their family nowadays. Keep up with 赶上 Eg: You should work hard to keep up with the top students in your class.

12. 2 … as they aim to enrich their work experiences, develop new skills and meet challenges. aim to +v. 致力于做 … enrich +sth, 丰富 Eg: He aims to be a successful writer. 他致力于成为一个成功作家 Eg: The students are eager to read to enrich their knowledge. 学生们渴望着读书来丰富他们的知识

13. ３． If you don’t want to fall behind in today’s competitive job market, you have to commit yourself to life-long learning. fall behind 落后 commit oneself to ＋ sth. ／ doing sth. 保证，许诺 Eg: Conceit makes people fall behind. 骄傲使人落后 Eg: We can’t commit ourselves to any concrete proposal. 我们不能许诺提供任何具体的建议

14. assume v. 假定，认为 assume sth. / (that) clause assumption n. 4. Today you cannot assume that completing a course will give you qualifications that will see you through your career. Eg: If he is not here in 5 minutes, we’ll assume he isn’t coming. see you through 向某人提供足以维持 …… 的东西，帮助 eg:He had enough money to see her through a year abroad.

15. Third Conditional 虚拟条件句 If-clause 条件从 句 Main clause 主句 对现在事实 的虚拟 用一般过去时 did Would/should/could/might/+v 对过去事实 的虚拟 用过去完成时 had +done Would/should/could/might/+ have done 对将来事实 的虚拟 Were to +v/should +v Would/should/could/might/+ v If he had money now, he would travel over the world. If he had asked me for help, I would have given him everything necessary. If I were free tomorrow, I would show him around the college.

16. Third Conditional 虚拟条件句 虚拟条件句 还可以把 “if” 省掉，把相应的助动词 were, had, should 提前。 Were Tom here now(=If Tom were here now), he would overcome this. Had you been more careful(=If you had been more careful), you wouldn’t have made so many mistakes. Should there be an earthquake(=If there should be an earthquake), many people would suffer.

17. 1. Go over the text, be familiar with the content. 2. Go over the phrases and grammar in lesson 1