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Unit15Unit15

How important is it for people to continue their studies after formal education?

Look at the pictures, guess what ages are they? Are they teenage students ? What are they doing?

What’s it about the world today that makes it necessary to continue learning?

The workplace has changed

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Lesson 1Lesson 1

The importance ofThe importance of Life-long Life-long

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A Lifelong Learning Person 终生学习Not just learn to answer …学习不只是为了按部就班地学习正确答案- But to reason, learn, apply而是为了推理、思考、应用- Know why and how为了知道为什么和如何做

?

Scan the text then match the paragraphs with their topics

paragraphs 1

paragraphs 2

paragraphs 3

paragraphs 4

paragraphs 5

Today’s situation

about effective life-long learning

Habits and attitudes

Ideal place to gain life-long learning skills

Prepare yourself

Read the text and answer the following questions:

1.Why people have to go back to school to continue their studies?

2.Where is an ideal place to gain life-long learning skills? Why?

In order to keep up with the fast changing world

school

Because there you have support and resources, and you are young and naturally more open to learning

Read the text again and judge the true or false sentences. Pay attention to the underlined important words1.In the past , people often worked in the same job.

2.Now , for people to

to school from time to time.

3.Changing jobs has become common practice for many people as they ,develop new skills and meet new challenges.4.If you don’t want to in today’s competitive job market, you have to

life-long learning.

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T

from graduation till retirement

it isn’t common practice

go back

aim to enrich their work experiences

fall behind commit yourself to

5.Effective learning is collecting formal qualifications ,and also about forming habits that help you study, developing attitudes that

T

6.Time management ,note making, analysis and writing are enough for you to learn effective.

F

7.School is an ideal place to gain life-long learning.

8.Not many adults feel too busy to develop learning skills.

F9.To keep ourselves up-to-date with any changes that

, we should develop learning skills and learn how to learn.

T

T

a matter of

come our way

make you receptive to learning.

1.Today ,however ,everyone needs to learn new things constantly on the job and it is common practice for people to go back to school from time to time in order to keep up with the fast changing world.

it is common practice to +v. …… 是平常事

Eg: It’s common practice for women to work and earn money to support their family nowadays.

Keep up with 赶上

Eg: You should work hard to keep up with the top students in your class.

2 … as they aim to enrich their work experiences, develop new skills and meet challenges.

aim to +v. 致力于做…

enrich +sth, 丰富

Eg: He aims to be a successful writer. 他致力于成为一个成功作家

Eg: The students are eager to read to enrich their knowledge. 学生们渴望着读书来丰富他们的知识

３． If you don’t want to fall behind in today’s competitive job market, you have to commit yourself to life-long learning.

fall behind 落后

commit oneself to ＋ sth. ／ doing sth. 保证，许诺

Eg: Conceit makes people fall behind. 骄傲使人落后

Eg: We can’t commit ourselves to any concrete proposal. 我们不能许诺提供任何具体的建议

assume v. 假定，认为 assume sth. / (that) clause assumption n.

4. Today you cannot assume that completing a course will give you qualifications that will see you through your career.

Eg: If he is not here in 5 minutes , we’ll assume he isn’t coming.

see you through 向某人提供足以维持……的东西，帮助

eg:He had enough money to see her through a year abroad.

Third Conditional 虚拟条件句

If-clause 条件从句

Main clause主句

对现在事实的虚拟

用一般过去时 did

Would/should/could/might/+v

对过去事实的虚拟

用过去完成时 had +done

Would/should/could/might/+ have done

对将来事实的虚拟

Were to +v/should +v

Would/should/could/might/+ v

If he had money now, he would travel over the world.

If he had asked me for help, I would have given him everything necessary.

If I were free tomorrow, I would show him around the college.

Third Conditional 虚拟条件句

虚拟条件句 还可以把“ if” 省掉，把相应的助动词 were, had, should 提前。

Were Tom here now(=If Tom were here now), he would overcome this.

Had you been more careful(=If you had been more careful), you wouldn’t have made so many mistakes.

Should there be an earthquake(=If there should be an earthquake), many people would suffer.

1. Go over the text, be familiar with the content.

2. Go over the phrases and grammar

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