学术英语(社科)_Unit 3.pptx
Unit3Unemployment
ContentsReadingTextATextBViewingSpeakingResearchPaperWriting
TextALead-intaskWhilereadingAfterreadingtasksUnemploymentandItsNaturalRate
Lead-intaskCriticalthinkingReferenceanswersTheemploymentrateofmyuniversitygraduatesisveryhigh.Theuniversityhasanemploymentcentertohelpstudents.Whatdoyouknowabouttheemploymentrateofyouruniversitygraduates?Whatdoesyouruniversitydotohelpgraduatesfindrightjobs?1
Lead-intaskCriticalthinkingReferenceanswersInternshipisveryimportantforjobseeking.Whatdoyouthinkyoushoulddotogetanidealjobaftergraduation?2
WhilereadingThefocusedissueunemploymentReadingtaskWhatisfrictionalunemployment?
Languagesupport“Office”inthissentencemeansapositioninalargeandpowerfulorganization,especiallyagovernment.Itcanbeusedinphrases“runforoffice”(=trytobeelected)or“takeoffice”(=begintoworkinaposition).WhilereadingItisnotsurprising,therefore,thatpoliticianscampaigningforofficeoftenspeakabouthowtheirproposedpolicieswillhelpcreatejobs.(Para.1)
LanguagesupportWhilereadingEvenifsomefrictionalunemploymentisinevitable,thepreciseamountisnot.(Para.9)Paraphrase:Evenifwecannotavoidfrictionalunemployment,wecandosomethingtoinfluencetheextentoffrictionalunemployment.
Languagesupport“Wordofmouth”isthepassingofinformationfrompersontopersonbyoralcommunication.WhilereadingNewspaperads,Internetjobsites,universityplacementoffices,headhunters,andwordofmouthallhelpspreadinformationaboutjobopeningsandjobcandidates.(Para.11)
Languagesupport宾语从句中的比较结构“nobetter”省略了后半句,补充完整是“thegovernmentisnobetterthanprivatemarketatdisseminatingtherightinformationto…”。插入语中的“worse”也是同样的情况:“…mostlikelythegovernmentisworsethanprivatemarketatdisseminatingtherightinformationto…”。WhilereadingThesecriticscontendthatthegovernmentisnobett