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