(课件网) UNIT 7 CAREERS LESSON 3 MEET THE NEW BOSS：YOU 北师大版高中英语选择性必修第三册 MEET THE NEW BOSS：YOU What do you think are the typical features of careers in the past What about in the future What may have caused the changes How can you get yourself prepared Use the phrases below to help you. to follow in one’s parents’ footsteps to stay at one job to work in the same field to be a risk taker to be replaced by to be prepared for to develop new skills to keep a job for the entire working life Activity 1 Preparations needed Features of careers in the past Features of careers in the future Causes of the changes You are going to read an article about future careers. Look at the title of the lesson. Tick（√）the topics that you think will be mentioned. □ How jobs and occupations will change □ How to become an employer □ How to adapt to the new job trends □ How to avoid losing your job in the future Activity 2 Read the article. Check your prediction. Activity 3 Up until the 1980s，people in many countries regularly followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family business or joining the same profession as them. You’d follow your father to sea，onto the farm or into the workshop . You’d follow your mother into the kitchen or sewing room. In your grandparents’ time，there was the prospect of doing the same job from graduation until retirement. How times have changed! Most people now have no intention of following in their parents’ footsteps or even staying at one job for very long. In fact，planning to work in the same field or industry for your entire working life just isn’t practical anymore. One reason for this is technology. The skills you have now are unlikely to remain relevant and be enough to help you through your entire career. In fact，they will probably be out of date very soon. And then what will you do Work hard Win the lottery Hope for the best You might be lucky. These strategies might bring you a nice，comfortable life：working at a job you like，earning a decent salary and retiring while you’re still young and healthy. But most of us today have to look beyond the little box called “career”. If you think you can work eight hours a day and build a career，think again. You might be able to keep your job if you finish what you are asked to do，but this is hardly a recipe for great career success. Instead，you’d better keep looking for smarter ways to do your work. You’ll need to be a risk taker，an innovator，a problem solver，and a hard worker. Keep doing this，and you can become an expert or a specialist in something one day. You have a chance to choose to build a career，rather than being told to stay or to go. Jobs and occupations come and go at an amazing pace these days. If you think you can’t be replaced by software，or your job can’t be outsourced to some robots on the moon，you are wrong. What if your job disappears after working ... ...
