新编英语教程 3 Unit 1 预习材料

How many of you hold a part-time job? Can you tell us your experience of getting the first job? Were you interviewed by the child’s parents or the head of the school?

II. background knowledge:

British educational system and schools; Victorian house III. key words and phrases:

awkward; dreary; grunt; slim (lean) chance; land (acquire, earn) a job; proceed to; summon; dismay; appall; stare (gaze, gape, glare); diffidently; attach importance to; have sth. in common; a crocodile of; teaching set-up; an air of; constitute (comprise, consist);

III. difficult sentences:

1. I saw in a local newspaper a teaching post advertised at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. (para. 1) 2. …with no experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim.

(para. 1)

3. as a result I arrived… (para. 2)

4. His study, judging by the crumbs on the carpet, was also his dining-room.

(para. 5)

5. It was not so much having to tramp…following by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that… (para. 7) IV. grammar:

Find out sentences employing –ing or –ed participles and –ing or –ed phrases. V. Text II

1. Find out from the text description about the appearance and the expressions of

the interviewers.

2 Find out topics that the interviewers are interested in. 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Blakey?

4. Do you think his answers to the questions satisfying or not? What’s your reason?

How would you answer these questions? V. interaction: job interview

How to conduct a job interview?