Unit 18 Finding Jobs
ask the students to answer the other three questions on page 136.
t: ok, let’s go on with some other questions of this part. you may talk with your partners first before we have a check five minutes later.
s1: i know many other jobs such as teacher, doctor, nurse, manager, shop assistant, operator, driver, and so on. i would like to be a teacher when i grow up. i’m determined to devote myself to the basic education of our country and try to train as many teenagers for professionals as i can. if necessary, i’ll be glad to go to the mountainous areas to help the poor students there. i don’t know the exact number of jobs in the world and i guess there may be several thousands jobs altogether in the world.
s2: besides the jobs mentioned above, i also know some other jobs like engineer, conductor, professor, inventor, judge, adventurer, traveler, businessman, bookseller, scientist, captain. i would like to become an adventurer who leads a dangerous but exciting life and can travel around to see the world and make great discoveries for human beings. i guess maybe there are more than 10,000 different jobs in the world.
s3: as far as i know there are many other jobs such as farmer, worker, doorkeeper, soldier, officer, guard, guide, film director, actor, actress, street cleaner, bank clerk and so on. i have always been dreaming of being an army officer like my father serving in the air force in beijing. i hope one day i can also fly a plane in the blue sky wearing uniforms and do some research for the military purposes. in my imagination, there are maybe thousands of different jobs in the world.
s4: there are many other jobs like instructor, writer, lawyer, detective, politician, musician, dancer, receptionist, moneylender, gymnasts, athlete, trainer, coach, policeman, postman. in the future i would like to become a great film director like steven spieberg who has created a lot of great works for us film fans. as to the last question, i think there are so many different jobs in the world that the total number may reach up to 20,000.
t: very good!i am glad to see that all of you have great ambitions and i sincerely hope one day your dreams will come true through your hard work. as for the last question, experts believe that there are about 40,000 different types of jobs in the world. so choosing the right one is a difficult job in itself.
step iii speaking
t: next, please look at part of the questionnaire the careers adviser gave james on page 137. i’d like you to answer the questions and then discuss the answers with your partners.
