【正文】 . 9. Work in pairs and discuss the following topics. Share your parttime job experience with your partner A: Have you ever worked parttime? B: Yes. I once worked as a ... on weekends. How about you? A: I worked as ... I really enjoy this experience. Reference Parttime jobs students can do on and off campus A: What parttime jobs do you think students can do on campus? B: Well, we don’t have many opportunities. Parttime jobs are not easy to find on campus. Generally we can help a little in the school library, in the student canteen, in the laundry or do some cleaning to make some money. Working in the library is more interesting, I think. We can get familiar with the library system and book arrangement. This may be helpful to us when we need to find something. A: Then what about offcampus jobs? B: We have more chances to take parttime jobs off campus. For example, we can work as waiters or waitresses, shop assistants, tour guides, babysitters, and tutors. We can also help panies to hand out the sales fliers. But many students work as tutors instead of other jobs. The money is good, the work is not hard and the parents are usually very nice to the tutors. What do you think? Benefits students can get from doing parttime jobs A: What benefits can we get from doing parttime jobs? B: Oh, quite a lot. Doing parttime jobs can help us to gain some practical experience, to know more about the real world, to make some new friends, and most important of all, we can earn some money. Do you agree? A: Yes, I quite agree. I think, besides what you’ve mentioned, we can also gain confidence by doing parttime jobs. For example, I have been working as a tutor teaching a fifteenyearold girl. She needs to improve her oral English. And my work is to talk to her in English. Before that, I was not quite sure whether I could do it well or not. And I also felt at a loss on how to improve her oral English in an efficient way. After talking to her for the first time, I got to know that she loves music very much. The next time I brought some wonderful English songs to her and we enjoyed the songs together. Then we began to talk about music. I was surprised to find that she could talk quite a lot even though sometimes she could not find the exact word to express herself. But we could understand each other. That’s OK. I really felt a very strong sense of acplishment. B: That’s very interesting. I can see you enjoying the job. Share your parttime job experience with your partner A: Have you ever worked parttime? B: Yes. I once worked as a cleaner. I clean the classrooms every other day. At first I really didn’t want to take this job. I was afraid that my classmates would look down upon me. But I needed the money. So I took it. A week later, I found no one ever laughed at me. By and by, I became used to it. And I came to understand we all have our own responsibilities to take. No matter what kind of job you do, you must do it well and you can learn a lot from it. A: Maybe you are right. I have worked as a waiter, a salesman, library assistant and others. I didn’t stay too long with a job. Of all those jobs, some were boring, some were too hard, and most of them were illpaid. Now I am a program developer in an IT pany. All the colleagues are young people. We are all very creative guys. New ideas are always encouraged. And people working there enjoy more freedom than in most other panies. It’s challenging and interesting. I really enjoyed this experience. I Got the Job! I was really nervous when I went to my first job interview, but I made sure that I arrived on time and was properly dressed. With a smile on my face and a good firm handshake, I handed my interviewer my r233。 and hoped for the best. Realizing the importance of maintaining eye contact, I persevered while answering all of the questions to the best of my ability and hoped that he didn’t notice how much my hands were shaking. Some of the questions he asked were the same ones as I’d practiced with my roommate the night before, which really helped with my selfconfidence. Gradually I became less nervous, and even asked an intelligent question at the end of the interview. It wasn’t as bad as I had expected, and best of all, I actually got the job. Ex. 10. Write a short passage of at least 100 words about your first job interview or the job you would like to have. Sample Passage B ? Think About It ? Read About It 1. When do you think you can live on your own? I think I can live on my own as soon as I bee a college student. Reference: 2. What does the author think about living on his own? He thinks by living on his own he can be more responsible, more decisive and more creative. Reference: 3. How often do you review your lessons? Generally speaking, I try to review my lessons once a week by doing some exercises and listening to the tapes. And I will go over all the lessons once more before the final exams. Reference: Read About It ? Language Points ? Content Awareness ? Language Focus ? Reading Skill Practice Living on My Own The first time I decided to leave home was when I was a sophomore in high school. I was having trouble getting along with my parents. I had about a hundred dollars in my pocket, and so I thought about leaving home. It took me only three weeks away from home before I started to feel homesick. Living on my own is a totally different experience for three main reasons: being more responsible, more decisive and more creative. First of all, I have learned that living on my own requires that I bee more responsible. My parents usually assign my work and duties which I have to keep up with almost every day. When I fail to do my assigned work, I only get scolded. However, now that I am on my own, I have to deal with my duties without being t