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1. Group Discussion
2. Word Web
3. Warm-up Questions
4. Blank Filling
5. Background Information
A qualified teacher in America
Becoming a teacher in China
Academic Calendar
Ivory Tower
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Aldous Huxley
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Group Discussion
Directions: Work in pairs and try to figure out the occupations of the people in the
pictures.
engineer
businessman
director
teacher
doctor
What do you want to be?
butcher
programmer
salesman
scientist
pilot
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Word Web
Directions: What words will occur to you whenever we mention the word “work”?
Write down as many words as possible, then fill in the blanks with them.
business
career
trade
task
work
job
profession
labor
occupation
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occupation profession task trade
job as a waitress.
1. Finally, Mary got a ___
2. He tries not to let his ________
business interfere with his family life.
3. In those days people would leave school at fourteen to learn a _____
trade .
labor .
4. Building still involves a lot of manual ____
profession are
5. The report notes that forty percent of the lawyers entering the _________
women.
6. She didn’t return to ____
work until her children began school.
_____ .
7. When he retires he will be able to look back over a brilliant career
task is to improve the economy.
8. Our main ____
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Warm-up Questions
1. What do you want to do after graduation?
2. What do you think of taking teaching as a career?
3. Do you think that teachers are highly respected and valued in your society?
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Blank Filling
Directions: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with the missing words.
The teaching profession varies from country to country. In many countries
teaching is a highly respected
________ and prestigious profession. In Japan, for example,
__ in the United
____ better salaries and benefits than teachers do
teachers receive much
prestige , but their salaries are
States. In developing nations, teachers often have _______
often meager (不足的) and their working
______ conditions are generally poor. In some
nations, such as Ireland and Spain, the Roman Catholic Church participates
_________ in all
aspects of education, including teachers’ training. All of the countries, particularly the
developing nations, lose many of their most qualified
_______ teachers to more lucrative
positions in _________
commerce and industry.
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A qualified teacher in America
1) Subjects
A person who is preparing to become a teacher is supposed to learn the
following subjects:
A. liberal arts subjects (mathematics, English, history…)
B. courses of a particular focus on future subject (s)
C. professional education courses: educational psychology, methodology,
philosophy and history of education
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2) Teaching practice
Almost all the schools require teaching
practice, in which the student teacher, under
the supervision of an experienced classroom
teacher, participates in actual classroom
procedures.
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3) Qualifications
Elementary and secondary public school
Every elementary and secondary public school teacher in the U.S.
must have a teacher’s certificate (a license indication that the holder is
qualified to teach) granted by the government of the state in which he
wishes to teach. Most of the states require four years of college education
for elementary teaching certificates; all the states require at least four
years of college education for secondary teaching certificates.
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College and university
College and university teachers are not required to take education
courses or to obtain teaching certificates. However, a doctor’s degree in a
field of specialization is almost a necessity for a teaching career in most
institutions of higher education.
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Becoming a teacher in China
Directions: Listen to the following passage and retell it with the words given.
In the past, becoming a teacher was comparatively easy for graduates,
because, at that time, teachers’ status in the society was very low and their
salary was very meager and therefore, not many graduates except those
graduating from normal universities would choose to become teachers.
However, with the growing awareness of the importance of education and
also of teachers, teachers’ status and their treatment have been improved,
and their values are more recognized. Consequently, more and more
graduates want to become teachers, especially college teachers.
Therefore, the competition becomes more and more fierce. Nowadays, the
requirements for teachers are also rising. Basically, those requirements are
very much like those in America.
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Academic Calendar
Academic calendar refers to the
calendar used in an institution of
education. It is a list of important
events during the school year, such as
when school terms begin, when
exams are administered and when
commencements are held.
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Ivory Tower
“Living in an ivory tower” usually depicts the
intellectuals who live only for their work and don’t
care much about social and political affairs, They
concentrate their entire efforts on the quest for
what they perceive to be scientific or artistic truth.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and writer (1830-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader of the philosophical movement
of transcendentalism (先验说, 超越论). His essays had a strong influence
on both American and European readers and writers in their study of
man’s relation to life. In a speech entitled “the American Scholar,” he
called upon American students to “Know Thyself” and “Study Nature. ”
In the essay “Self-Reliance” he stresses the importance of sturdy
independence in thought and action.
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Henry David Thoreau
American writer, philosopher, and naturalist (1817-1862)
Born in Concord, Thoreau was educated at Harvard University. In
the late 1830s and early 1840s, he taught school and tutored in
Concord and on Staten Island, New York. After graduation from
Harvard University in 1837, Thoreau started a school that was perhaps
the first in America to introduce field trips for nature study. In 1845 he built a small
cabin at Walden Pond with his own hands and lived there until 1847, spending 27
cents a week for food to supplement the vegetables he raised. In 1854, he
published his masterpiece Walden or, Life in the Woods. In Walden, Thoreau
records his life in the woods and describes freshly and vividly the changing seasons
and other natural events and scenes that he observed. Thoreau had kept a journal
since 1837, and this journal formed the basis for several books published after his
death.
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Aldous Huxley
English novelist, essayist, critic, and poet (1893-1963)
In his later works he expressed concern that the pursuit of
material possessions was taking place at the expense of
individual freedom and a respect or nature. He satirized such
trends in Brave New World (1932), a novel set in a future
world where individuality is deliberately stifled. In Island
(1962), on the other hand, he presents his utopia, a libertarian
community living in close harmony with its natural
environment.
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1. Part Division of the Text
2. Scanning — Reasons to Teach
3. Further Understanding
Part 1 Questions and Answers
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Part 3 Sentence Detecting
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Main Ideas
While all Americans are taught to want money and power,
I want to teach and this greatly puzzles my friends.
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I teach neither because teaching is easy for me, nor
because I have so much knowledge that I must share with
my students.
3
4~11
I love the teaching profession because teaching offers me a
great number of rewards, such as pace, variety, intellectual
challenge and the chance to keep on learning.
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12~19
Being a teacher, I can help and see my students grow and
change in front of me.
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20~21
Teaching offers something besides money and power: love.
In addition, seeing students growing, I find myself growing
and changing with them too.
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Scanning — Reasons to Teach
Directions: Go over the text quickly and find out the reasons why the author teaches.
the pace of the academic calendar
1. __________________________________________________________
variety (Teaching is a profession built on change.)
2. the
__________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________
the freedom to be his own boss (the freedom to do things in his own way)
4. __________________________________________________________
the opportunity to keep on learning
5. __________________________________________________________
the opportunity to teach his students to play their roles in the real world
6. __________________________________________________________
the opportunity to share with his students the happiness of their success
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joy of seeing his students grow and change in front of his eyes
7. the
__________________________________________________________
the power to help his students grow and change
8. __________________________________________________________
the love teaching offers, the love of learning, of books and ideas and the
9. __________________________________________________________
love a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life
__________________________________________________________
and begins to breathe
__________________
10. __________________________________________________________
the feeling of remaining young while teaching
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Questions and Answers
1. According to the author, what is the goal most Americans are taught to
achieve in life?
Most Americans are taught to manage to achieve money and power when
they grow up.
2. Do you think an administrative position has anything to do with money
and power?
Yes, it involves the management of the staff and affairs of a university,
which tends to offer a higher pay than teaching.
3. Give Examples for administrative positions in a university.
President of a university, faculty director, dean of studies, director of
teaching and discipline etc.
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Blank Filling
Directions: Read the second part of the text carefully, then fill in the blanks.
Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my
carpenter , writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye
living: mechanic, ________
______ , sweaty-palm
__________ ,
sinking-stomach
ready to teach no matter
_____________ profession. Red-eye, because I never feel _____
preparing . Sweaty-palm, because I’m always _______
nervous before I
how late I stay up ________
enter the classroom
________ , sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking________ that I was even
stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced
boring than usual.
more _____
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Sentence Detecting
Directions: Find out the concluding sentence in this part that summarizes the reasons
why the author teaches.
So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to
keep on learning.
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Listing
1) The two most important reasons why the author teaches are:
A. _______________________________________________________
His students grow and change in front of him.
author helps his students to mould their characters.
B. The
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2) The names of his students that offer the reasons why the author teaches.
Vicky
1) _______________________________________________________
George
2) _______________________________________________________
Jeanne
3) _______________________________________________________
Jacqui
4) _______________________________________________________
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Question and Answer
What does teaching offer besides money and power?
It offers love, not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the
love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher’s life
and begins to breathe.
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Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: Why am I a teacher?
Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments? Answering these
questions is not a simple task. Let’s see what the author says.
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