- •Unit 6 Employment
- •Application Letters and Resumes
- •2. Understanding the main points
- •3. Dictionary skills: Identifying the correct meaning
- •In the article, the word handle is a verb, so only look at the dictionary extract for verbs.
- •Succeed at Your Job Interview
- •1. Using background knowledge
- •2. Understanding the main points
- •3. Activating Topic vocabulary
- •Succeed at your job interview
- •People in Different Jobs
- •Jobs in a Shrinking World
- •Women in Unusual Jobs
- •Balancing Home and Work
- •Value of housework
- •I. Answer the following questions.
- •II. Compare your answers with a partner.
- •The Changing Workplace
- •3. The sentences below could be placed at the end of one of the paragraphs in the text. Discuss with your partner where they could be placed and why.
- •1. Find words in the text that mean the same as the words below:
- •2. Compare your answers with a partner. Explain which parts of the text helped you to find the correct words.
- •Work Trends
- •1. Pre-reading task
- •2. While reading task
3. The sentences below could be placed at the end of one of the paragraphs in the text. Discuss with your partner where they could be placed and why.
There has also been an increase in the use of temporary, part-time, and contract workers. Temporary workers, for example, now compose one-third of the U.S. labor force, and their ranks are growing so fast that they are soon expected to outnumber full-time workers (Castro 1993).
BUILDING VOCABULARY: USING CONTEXT CLUES
1. Find words in the text that mean the same as the words below:
travel to and from a workplace (par. 1) ________________
do not accept (par. 2) ________________
very much (par. 3) ________________
able to be changed to suit the person or situation (par. 4) ________________
money made by a business after taking out costs (par. 4) ________________
free time (par. 5) ________________
predict (par. 6) ________________
difficulties (par. 6) ________________
2. Compare your answers with a partner. Explain which parts of the text helped you to find the correct words.
Text 9.
Work Trends
1. Pre-reading task
Think about the following questions:
Name some of the sectors of employment
Agriculture_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Which sectors employ the most people in your country?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Has the number of employees in the different sectors changed in recent years?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Which sector would you like to work in?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Survey the text. Which graphic is
a line graph?
a bar chart?
a pie chart?
Academic
texts often contain statistics in the form of graphs or charts.
Line graphsshow specific trends in data, often on a time
line
Bar chartsillustrate comparison in trends
Pie chartscompare percentage of a whole piece of data Referring
to these as you read helps you understand the text
Skim the titles of the graphics to get a general idea
Look at the graphics and ask yourself general questions
As you red the text, refer to appropriate graphics