Advanced Career English 高级职业英语读写教程1 Unit 1

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Section 1 Getting Things Ready
The learning environment
★The lesson is the usual teaching mode. ★Time spent in class takes up most of students’ learning time.
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★Lectures, tutorials, seminars and lab sessions are features of university teaching. These are conducted face to face and, increasingly, online.
★Students have to learn to manage their unstructured time outside contact hours.
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Activity 1: Listen and Write.
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Assignments ★Students are expected to take a more ★Students are expected critical and questioning attitude to to reproduce the core the knowledge they acquire knowledge they have throughout the course of their learnt. university studies. ★Teachers set smaller and more frequent assignments, and correct and comment upon them. ★There may be fewer but longer assignments.
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How to Adapt to College Life Quickly When you first enter your college, you will find that differences between high school life and college life are great. In high school, we usually depend on our parents and teachers to solve all kinds of difficult problems. At college, however, we have to rely exclusively on ourselves. What is more, we have to learn how to get along with our classmates and roommates. Almost every college freshman experiences some level of nervousness and anxiety. But don’t worry, here are some tips to help you adapt to college life as quickly as possible.
Adapting to New Environments
Reading and Writing
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Unit 1 Adapting to New Environments
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Section 1 Getting Things Ready
participate v. 参加，参与 adjustment n. 调整；调节 final n. (大学的) 期终考试 depend on 依赖, 依靠 rely on 信赖, 依赖 figure out 弄明白；想出
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Reading and research requirements ★Teachers direct ★University lecturers usually give out students to what they long reading lists. They may point specifically have to out what is essential to read from read. Reading only the list and what is desirable to read the set textbook is but not crucial. often enough. ★Students need to develop good ★Students may use the research methods and skills using Internet and periodical indexes and online newspapers for databases, as well as Internet search research. engines.
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The learner
★Schools take some responsibility for students’ ★Students are regarded as adults and fully learning in various ways. responsible for their own academic success Teachers regularly or failure. monitor student progress, and even report to parents.
Question 2
In order to help adapt to college life, what tips are given to the freshmen?
Question 3
Are you enjoying your college life? Why or why not?
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Activity 2: Read the passage in Section 2 and complete the following paragraph. High school life and college life are different from each other in many ways. For example, parents and teachers help students 1._____ solve difficult problems in high school, while at college students have to rely on themselves for almost everything. Thus, freshmen tend nervous and anxious when they first enter to feel 2._______ college. In order to cope with anxiety and 3._______ adapt to college life as quickly as possible, it is necessary for freshmen to talk to others, try to make new friends and helpful try new things. It is very 4. _______ for freshmen to make a study plan to make good use of college time, have fun and enjoy 5._____________. their college life
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Secondary school Subjects ★Students are introduced to a subject and are expected to become ★Selected aspects (not increasingly knowledgeable about it all) of a subject are during their university study. taught in a carefully Students are exposed to a wide structured way. range of information, principles, theories and debates in their field. ★University staff select and structure ★Teachers direct the most important aspects of a students to the most subject. Lectures and seminars take important information students systematically through and ideas in a subject. these concepts. University
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Question 1
What are the chief differences between high school life and college life?
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Activity 1
Activity 2
Listen and Write
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Read and Think
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Comparison between Secondary School and University Secondary school and university differ in several ways. These differences relate to academic requirements, namely, how subjects are presented and structured, reading and research requirements, assignment characteristics, the learner, and the learning environment. Academic requirements in secondary school and in university are compared in the table below.
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Section 1 Getting Things Ready
In this unit, you will learn：
about the differences between high school life and college life how to make adjustment to college life how to make a study plan