LEVEL B2 UNIT 4

Northlatam English Program

LEVEL B2

Unit 4

Career choices

Lesson A

Vocabulary and grammar

Lesson objectives

Vocabulary: Careers, personal skills and qualities.

Grammar: Review Present tenses.

What are the factors to consider when choosing a career?

Opening discussion

Vocabulary: Career and employment

Drag and drop the concepts in the correct picture.

unemployed

retired

interview

resign

apply for

find a job

Vocabulary practice

Put the following events in Josef's career in logical order.

Vocabulary practice

Match a verb 1-10 with a noun a-j to make collocations for describing skills and qualities.

Use the collocations to complete the sentences below.

Grammar

Present tenses

Grammar practice

Grammar practice

Lesson B

lISTENING AND READING

Lesson objectives

Listen to someone talk about career choices.

Reading: Ten tips for creating a career.

1. What should young people consider when choosing a career? 2. What obstacles can someone face when choosing a career?

Opening discussion

Listening

Listen to the information and fill in the missing gaps.

Choosing a career is one of the biggest ____________ we make in life. It used to be that we _________ only one career. People ___________ start a job when they were 18, 19 or 20 and stay in that same career for life. Their ___________ path was quite straightforward. Nowadays, it is normal for people to __________ careers, five, six, seven times. New technology and globalization ____________ things change quickly. We need to study and _______________ with all the changes. I’ve had four different careers now. I like moving from one job to another. It means life never _________ boring. It’s much better to keep ___________ different things in different careers. I have no idea what career I’ll __________ next. Perhaps one that doesn’t even ______ today.

would

exists

chose

learning

choose

change

gets

decisions

keep up

means

career

means

Reading

Read the article and find which two tips can be summarized as:

1. Move towards your long-term goal in small, easy stages. 2. Make sure that preconceived ideas about success and failure are not preventing you from reaching your goals.

Reading

Read the article again and summarize each of the eight remaining tips.

1. __________________________________________________________________________.
2. __________________________________________________________________________.
3. __________________________________________________________________________.
4. __________________________________________________________________________.
5. __________________________________________________________________________.
6. __________________________________________________________________________.

Lesson C

WRITING

Lesson objectives

The structure of a CV and the use of appropriate language

Writing and organizing a CV

Discussion

Discuss why you agree or disagree with the following statements about writing CVs or résumés.

1. You should never use more than one page.
2. You should describe your experience first, then your qualifications.
3. You should list five or six people who can be contacted for a reference.
4. You should always include a photograph.
5. There should be too many details about your hobbies and passions.
6. You shouldn't include unnecessary personal information.
7. You should mention your exceptional academic results.

Structure of a CV

Decide in what order you expect the following categories to ocurr in a CV. Then read the CV below to check.

Additional skills

Position of responsabilities

Qualifications

Personal details

Work experience

Writing a CV

Read the facts about about Justin Collier and match them to their correspodning category used in Robert Khan's CV.

• Personal details
• Positions of responsabilities
• Qualifications
• References
• Voluntary roles
• Work experience
• Additional skills

Writing a CV

Using the previous CVs organization, write your CV using relevant language and expressions.

Lesson D

practical case

Lesson objectives

Discussion: Advantages and disadvantages of gap years and career breaks

Case Study: Give a presentation about gap-year activities

Discussion

What are the advantages and disadvatages of taking a year off before or after university?What other gap year activities can you think of from the ones listed below?

Adventure travel

Getting a part time job

Au Pair

Reading

Read the advertisement and answer the questions.

1. Who can apply for a gap-year placement and when?
2. What are the four benefits of a gap-year placement mentioned in the advertisement?
3. What kind of work is available?
4. Do you get paid/ have to pay?
5. How do you apply?

Discussion

Read the four descriptions of gap-year placements. Explain which one would you'd prefer to go on and why?

Presentation

Prepare a presentation for a gap-year placement. Include descriptions of the official language, placement, job description and working week. Be creative. Design a poster and tell the class about the experience. Then the class will choose the best options.

Thank you!