Lesson plan: applying for a job

Lesson Plan: Applying for a job

Isabel Madrid Segura

Index

Didactic justification

Timing

Methodological choices

Sequencing

Evaluation

Didactic justification

• Vocational training, low level students
• Relevant, significative content
• Practice of the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Develops key competences (multilingualism, entrepreneurship and digital and technology-based)
• Job vocabulary, personality adjectives, interview questions and use of "would" for politeness

Didactic justification

• Vocational training, low level students
• Relevant, significative content
• Practice of the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Develops key competences (multilingualism, entrepreneurship and digital and technology-based)
• Job vocabulary, personality adjectives, interview questions and use of "would" for politeness

Timing

• 1-2 weeks
• Lessons
• Intro: reading and researching about job offers
• Creating the CV: writing lesson
• Preparing for the interview: listening and writing
• Mock interview: speaking
• Mainly in-class, may require some autonomous work

Methodological choices

• Intensive reading: searching for specific information, small texts and follow up questions
• Writing: persuasive-informative texts, CV and interview dialogue
• Listening and reading approach: dialogue transcripts, listen and repeat

• Speaking: small group discussions, repeated oral reading, roleplaying and answering questions spontaneously

Activities sequencing

Introduction

Job offer reading and researching

Job offers and skillset

Each point is suppossed to take up an entire 1 hour lesson. The activities should be introduced after warm-up class routines. The studends are supposed to conduct the research and activities described in-class and only take work home if they do not finish or if they need to rehearse.

Reading, self-reflecting and cooperating

Soft and hard skills: CV

Research and write

Interview examples

Listen, repeat and create

Act it out!

Simulate an interview with your partner

CV example

Provide an already made template or a very concrete set of instructions/points to include in their CV.

+ info

Evaluation

• Small portfolio including:
• New vocabulary glossary
• Job offer
• CV
• Dialogue script
• Oral presentation rubric:
• Body language
• Correct use of interview specific expressions (provided by the video)
• Pronunciation

Thank you!

Act out your interview!

The whole class will act out their dialogues. - They will submit the script so that the teacher can follow the conversation. - The teacher will ask some follow up questions to prompt spontaneous answers related to the topic. - The rest of the students will have to fill in the rubric about body language and speaking in public and then decide if they are hired or not.

In small groups, swap your job offers and evaluate strong and weak points: - Does it have all relevant information? - Is it reasonable? Self-reflection: In pairs, write down 2 strengths and 2 weakeness of your partner and of yourself, justifying why you think they are positive or negative. Compare notes and talk about personal perception in the class. How can you work on your weaknesses? Group research: what are soft skills and hard skills? Why are they important? Create a short poster with examples

Job hunting

Create a CV

Writing and designing: - Choose one of the job offers made by your group. - Using your previously acquired information on soft and hard skills and your analysis of strengths and weaknesses, create a CV with a Canva Template to apply for that job. Include info as shown here:

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Listen to the interview and discuss:- Do you think they are going to hire the applicant? Why/Why not? - Is body language important in an interview? Research in your small groups and make a list of positive and negative behaviour. In the big group turn the list into a body language evaluation rubric.Listen again. In pairs, roleplay the same interview. Now it's your turn: prepare a similar dialogue with a partner for one of your group's job offers. Watch the video for ideas, then rehearse and pay attention to body language!

Prepare for your interview

Job offer example

Read the job offer that appears in your book and answer the following questions:- What kind of job are they offering?- What skills or qualification do you think you might need to apply for the job? - Would you apply? Add new words to your glossary. Research real life job offers and create one of your own for our company (include duties, salary, skills needed, etc.)