New Words (cont.)
Compel: To force, drive, or constrain 下雨使我们不得不待在室内。 The rain compelled us to stay indoors. Freshman: student in his first year at a college. Cf. sophomore, junior, senior Run-down: old and broken or in bad condition Repay: pay back (money, etc.) Switch: To shift, transfer, or divert They switched the conversation to a lighter subject
profession: job that needs formal qualifications after training, e. g. law, medicine, teaching, acting. —Jeanne has decided on law as her profession. She wants to become a civil rights lawyer and help the poor. —我是一个大二学生，但是我不知道什么职业最适合 我。 As a sophomore, I still don’t know what profession would suit me best.
I didn‟t want to be a candidate for an administrative position, such as the president or vice-president of a university, the dean of a college, the chairman of a department, etc. Administrative: of or involving the management of public or business affairs — Your responsibilities will be mainly administrative. — 她纯粹做行政工作。 She will do purely administrative work.

Certainly I don‟t teach because teaching is easy for me. L5
Certainly I teach not because teaching is easy for me. This is a partial negative sentence — Nor do I teach because I think I know answers. — I don‟t come here to argue with you. I come here to solve the problem.
Convince … of
Useful Expressions
跟上，与…同步 校历 思索，反思 创办一家公司
Keep pace with Academic calendar
Reflect on
Set up a corporation
还债
分红
Repay a debt
12~19 Being a teacher, I can help and see my students grow and change in front of me. 20~21 Teaching offers something besides money and power: love. In addition, seeing students growing, I find myself growing and changing with them too.
Unit Three Why I Teach
You Chengcheng
Warm-up questions
Would you like to a teacher? Why or why not? What do you think are the advantages of being a teacher? What are the disadvantages? What qualities does a good teacher need?
puzzle: make unable to answer, solve or understand; fill with doubt and confusion —We were all puzzled by his recent behavior. —这个女人的病让医生疑惑不解，因为他找出 根源。 —The woman‟s illness puzzled the doctor; he couldn‟t find the cause.

New Words (cont.)
Urban: of, relating to, or located in a city Cf. suburb, suburban, rural Pathway: a track or way worn by footsteps; trail

I didn‟t want to be considered for an administrative position L2
butcher scientist pilot
prosions
行政职务 谋生 职业道德 使…相信…
A administrative
position
Earn a living
Professional ethics

He was puzzled that I did not want ...: money and power L2

A university administrator, as a rule, earns more money and has more power than an average professor and most Americans would be only too pleased to get a „step up” towards these goals. That‟s why the author‟s friend was puzzled that he would reject such a “promotion‟.

Group Discussion
Directions: Work in pairs and explain what you want to be in your future career..
engineer businessman
director
teacher
What do you want to be? doctor
4 5
Global analysis
Pace
My growth Why I Teach
Variety
Freedom Challenge
Love
Ss‟ growth
Learning
New Words
Step-up: Increasing in steps or by stages Sweaty: Covered with or smelling of sweat Profession: An occupation requiring considerable training and specialized study Convince: To bring by the use of argument or evidence to firm belief or a course of action. He was convinced of his error. convince sb of sth/convince sb to do sth We convinced Anne to go by train rather than
Distribute bonus
Useful Expressions
学术刊物

Learned journals
Civil engineering
凭直觉 指点迷津

土木工程 By intuition
Point out a pathway
spark of genius
I teach neither because teaching is easy for me, nor because I have so much knowledge that I must share with my students.
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4~11 I love the teaching profession because teaching offers me a great number of rewards, such as pace, variety, intellectual challenge and the chance to keep on learning.

For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. L8
Teaching
is a profession that makes my eyes red for lack of sleep, my palms sweaty because of nervousness and my stomach sinking because I often feel so disappointed with my lectures.