Lesson 2，Unit 13

 Personalities and Jobs

Teaching Aims:

1.     To practice listening in order to get information and answer questions.

2.     To practice describing people, personalities and jobs orally.

3.     To acquire knowledge about personalities and jobs and know better about themselves.

Teaching difficulties:

1.     To practice listening in order to answer questions.

2.     To speak about personalities and jobs.

Teaching Aids: computer, projection, and cards

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

T: Today we’ll learn something about personalities and jobs. What job do you want to do?

S: ….

T: Why do you want to be a …?

S: ….

T: Do you think there is necessary connection between “personalities and jobs”?...Yes, everyone has disadvantages and advantages in personalities; for example, someone is brave but impatient and careless, so they are not fit for…

S: Doctors, nurse or teachers.

T: Do you know your own personalities?

S: …

T: Well, let’s do an interesting test to see what personalities you may have. (Show some pictures by projection.) Please watch the nine pictures and choose the one you like best in 5 seconds.

T:  These pictures stand for different personalities. Now read your own result or analysis quickly.

(Show the analysis and ask the students to read it silently and quickly. If they have difficulty understanding some words, they can discuss them with their partners.)

The analysis:

1. People who choose Picture 1 may be light-hearted （无忧无虑的）, open-minded and curious. They are cheerful persons and can be good photographers, administrators, sports players or advertisers.

2. People who choose Picture 2 may be independent, strong-minded and artistic (有艺术气质的). They are individualistic （个人主义的）persons. They can do well in many fields of work such as computer, architecture , fashion or art.

3. People who choose Picture 3 may be sensitive (敏感的)， forgiving and introspective (自省的). They are good thinkers, engineers, teachers or writers.

4. People who choose Picture 4 may be steady-going（稳重的）， practical and reliable. They have openheartedness (亲和力) so they can be good doctors, politicians, sellers or actors/ actresses.

5. People who choose Picture 5 may be fair, strong-willed and confident. They are professional in their field such as police, law, medicine and army.

6. People who choose Picture 6 may be gentle, cautious and easy-going (随和的). They are people to be satisfied easily. They can be good teachers, cooks, farmers or nurses.

7. People who choose Picture 7 may be elegant, confident and analytical (分析能力强的). They usually are well-educated and successful politicians, statisticians (统计学家), scientists or lawyers.

8. People who choose Picture 8 may be romantic, sentimental(情绪化的) and perceptual(感性的). Their life is full of dreams and they do well in writing, art, fashion or entertainment (娱乐业).

9. People who choose Picture 9 may be outgoing and energetic. They enjoy diversified(多元化的) jobs, such as journalists, sportsman or adventurers.

II.  Inputs of words

1. T:  Our society needs all kinds of people doing different jobs. All people’s jobs are important. Without farmers working we will have no grain, meat, vegetables and fruits. Look at the photographs and guess what kind of job they do and what personalities they need to have.

(Give some pictures. Students have given many words including some unexpected answers. The teacher can add some words, such as: confident, creative, sociable, sympathetic, persistent, patient, selfish, intelligent, independent, communicative and so on.

It’s quite easy for students to guess the jobs but the main purpose is to ask students to say out and get familiar with the names of jobs and personalities they have learned.)

2.     The teacher shows more new words and makes sure they understand the meanings of them and are able to pronounce them correctly after the teacher.

athletic, selfish, characteristics, desire, satisfaction, harvest, biology, pineapple, peach, kindness, requirement, airline, aboard

3.     Students do the words exercise---Ex. 1 individually.

Ex. 1 Choose the best word for each sentence from the box.

athletic   confident  creative  independent intelligent  neat outgoing  patient selfish  sharp  diligent  selfless

Ex. 1  Complete each sentence with a word from the key words box.

1). A ___________ person is someone who is sure that he or she can do something or deal with a situation successfully.

2). A person with a _____ mind is able to think and understand things very quickly.

3). ________ person would care only about themselves and not about other people.

4). A ______ person can wait for a long time for something without getting angry or worried.

5). Someone _______ is good at producing new ideas and good ideas.

6). Someone _________ is clever and good at understanding ideas and thinking quickly.

7). Someone _________ likes to meet and talk to new people.

8). Someone ______________ is able to do things by themselves and in their own way.

9). A ______ person likes to keep things tidy.

10). _________people like to exercise and are good at sports.

(Check answers by having students read out the sentences.)

Ⅲ Listening

1. Pre-listening

The teacher asks students to read the questions in Ex.2 and Ex. 3. Then the teacher encourages students to predict what kind of things they might hear.

Ex. 2 Choose the best answer according to what you hear. The material will be played only once.

1) _______ believes that people who work with computers are not athletic but they have to be creative.

A. Li Liang        B. Xiao Dong         C.  Cao Wen

2) The students think that tour guides should be _________.

A.   independent and capable        B. sociable and outgoing

C.   confident and selfless

3) In Li Liang’s opinion, _________ must never give up.

A. cooks            B. doctors           C. farmers

4) ________ wants to be a cook.

A. Wang Shu            B. Li Liang           C.Cao Wen

5) Li Liang thinks a nurse should be ________________.

A. selfless and patient   B. confident and trustable   C. kind and caring

6) __________ wants to be a doctor

A. Xiao Dong        B.Cao Wen          C.Li Liang

Ex. 3 Listen to 3 dialogues and answer questions. The dialogues will be played twice.

Questions for Dialogue 1:

1.     How old isAlice?

2.     How many languages canAlicespeak?

Questions for Dialogue 2:

1.     What is the worst thing during long distance flights in the two speakers’ opinion?

Questions for Dialogue 3:

1.     In which place did Ian actually go to?

2.     Why did Ian lie?

Ex. 4 Listen to the rest 3 dialogues and fill in the blanks in the form. The dialogues will be played twice.

Dialogue 4	Making hay stands for _____ ___ _____ of things which are going well.
Dialogue 5	Singing at work, _____ hands, wearing terrible shirts and having terrible _______ let Jim disliked by his boss.
Dialogue 6	If it’s raining, they will go to the _________, instead.

2. While-listening

1.     The teacher plays the mp3 for students to do Ex.2, Ex. 3 and Ex. 4.

2.     Check the answers by having students read out their answers.

IV  Speaking-----Make them say it

T: Now you are divided into 8 groups, each group is given 2 cards with words which are jobs and the cards should be hidden from other groups. Describe the qualities and skills for the job, and other groups guess which job they are referring to. The group guesses one right gain one score and the group describing it correctly and clearly gains one score, too.

(The teacher does an example of “teachers” for the students at first. Praise students for their wonderful words, phrases and sentence structures they use and at the same time point out their mistakes if time permits.)

V Homework

Write sentences about your best friend and say what job would be suitable for him / her. Give reasons.