英语教案上传-伍佳娟.docx

长沙市第一中学英语：伍佳娟
Lesson Plan
WU Jiajuan (Sherry)
Introduction
This lesson provides students with a reading text on the topic of career planning. By introducing the usage of graphic organizers, the teacher enables students to visually organize examples in the text and to realize the close relationship between main ideas and examples. Then the teacher shares her own skills, interests, and values so that students can use this as a model to think of their own situation. At last, students present their self-assessment results by using a variety of phrases, and their partners need to think about career options for them after class.
Learning Objectives:
Students will recognize some job titles.
Students will review using topic sentences to get the main ideas.
Students will learn to use a graphic organizer to visualize the main ideas and the details.
Students will be able to express their interests and abilities in English.
Students will be inspired to think about their decisions on majors and careers in the future.
Students will enjoy learning English in class.
Key Teaching Points：
to make students get to know the usage of graphic organizers.
Teaching Materials:
Reading Text- How to Find the Job That’s Right for You
Worksheet 1- a graphic organizer.
Worksheet 2- a graphic organizer, a list of job titles, and some useful phrases to express one’s skills, interests, and values.
Topic: Career Planning
Procedure:
1. Guessing Game. The teacher explains to the students that they are going to see several photos and that they are encouraged to guess job titles matching these photos.
2. Reading for the Main Idea. The teacher asks students to find the topic sentence and then reminds the students of the strategy to find the topic sentence in a passage.
3. Reading Strategy: Using a Graphic Organizer. The teacher introduces the advantage of using a graphic organizer and presents some common graphs. Then students read the text and complete the graphic organizer on Worksheet 1. They can exchange their answers with their partners.
4. Critical Thinking. The teacher asks students to do their own self-assessment on Worksheet 2. The teacher then shows an example to students. Students exchange their results and think about possible jobs for their group members. Volunteers share their self-assessment results.

Reading Material:
How to Find the Job That’s Right for You
Most career counselors agree: to find a job that you will love, you need to do a self-assessment exercise. Self-assessment will help you discover what you do best, what interests you, and your values. Values are things that are important to you in life. The different self-assessment exercise tools all help you answer these three questions: What am I good at? What do I like to do? What are my values?
The first task is to find out what you do best. Start by thinking about the classes that you took in school. In which classes did you get the best grades? What kind of tests did you do well on? The answers to these questions can help you discover what you do best. For example, people who do well in language and literature classes probably have good communication skills. They might enjoy a job in journalism. People who are good at math and science might think about engineering. And people who excel in art might consider graphic design.
However, sometimes you do well in a subject, but you don’t enjoy it. For example, you might get high scores on math exams, but you really don’t like math. The next step is to think about what you enjoy doing. What clubs do you belong to? What sports do you play? What are your hobbies? Your free time activities can be a clue to your true interests. For example, Berger liked playing with LEGOs and became a toy designer. Bruce always loved playing games, and he became a computer game designer.
Finally, you need to think about your values. When thinking about your values, think about the following: Do you want to help others? Do you want to improve the environment? Lifestyle is important, too. Your lifestyle is the way that you live your life. Is a healthy lifestyle important to you? Do you want a job that isn’t stressful? And finally, don’t forget to think about how important money is to you.
The answers to these questions will help you discover the job that is right for you.

Context-related Words:
counselor: a person who has been trained to advise people with problems, especially personal problems
self-assessment: the process of judging your own progress, achievements, etc.
literature: pieces of writing that are valued as works of art, especially novels, plays and poems.
clue: a fact or a piece of evidence that helps you discover the answer to a problem.
LEGOs: a children’s toy that consists of small colored bricks that fit together.
The text was adapted from Finding the Job That’s Right for You, QUEST 1.