E-mail and Job Application.ppt

e
feizaopao007@
job
E-mail address
tomatoes
Fast reading
Read through this story and discuss the following aspects about it:
Characters:
The problem the man has:
The solution to the problem:
an unemployed man, his wife and his three teenage kids
Because he doesn’t have an e-mail, he can’t find a job.
By selling tomatoes, his family has made lots of money and achieves great ess.
What’s the main idea of this story?
A man can’t find a job, because he doesn’t like e-mail.
Because the man doesn’t have an e-mail, he achieves great ess.
An unemployed man doesn’t find a job because of no e-mail. Although not having an e-mail, he achieves great ess by selling tomatoes.
d. A man achieves great ess by selling tomatoes, so he doesn’t need an e-mail.
Careful reading
Read the whole story carefully, and discuss the following questions in groups.
Group A the changes of instruments the
man uses to sell tomatoes:
Group B the changes of the man’s wife:
Group C the changes of his two sons:
Group D the changes of his daughter:
Group A the changes of instruments the man uses to sell tomatoes:
a cart
a truck
________
several trucks
_________
a fleet
a crate
_________
Group B the changes of the man’s wife:
watches TV all day
is buying tomatoes for the man
supervises a warehouse
3. Group C the changes of his two sons:
have dropped out of high school, hang around with the local toughs
have left their neighborhood toughs ,
help the man with the tomato business
manage two tomato farms
4. Group D the changes of his daughter:
has dropped out of high school
is taking night courses at munity college
Retelling
Imagine you are the daughter of this man, tell others the changes your family has experienced during these five years using the given information:
live in a poor family and drop out of high school
father go to look for a job
unfortunately, fail
no choice but to sell tomatoes
father make lots of money
take night courses at munity college
mother