| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this flipped lesson are to:
- explore and practise job interview vocabulary;
- watch a video and discuss what to do in job interviews;
- learn and practise how to respond to common interview questions.
Students study words and phrases related to job interviews (e.g. driven by, weigh up the options, a good fit for, etc.), watch a video for job interview tips, talk about what can make an interview successful and learn about the STAR (situation, task, action, result) method for responding to behavioural interview questions. They also discuss types of questions in job interviews, interviewers’ behaviour and sensitive topics.
This is a Flipped Classroom lesson plan. In a nutshell, it means that the first part of the lesson needs to be done by students at home. Learn more about flipped classroom and how we implement it in these lesson plans in our post.
PRE-CLASS ACTIVITIES
At home, students work on job interview vocabulary (e.g. contribute to, align with, negotiable, etc.) by matching halves to create sentences. Then, they read each sentence again and decide whether an interviewer or an interviewee says it. After that, students choose sentences and complete them with their ideas. Next, they watch a video about job interview tips and complete statements about them.
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
In this part of the lesson, students look at the job interview tips from the video and say which ones they would use in their next job interview. They can also brainstorm more tips if necessary. Then, students read situations related to job interview mishaps or challenges and decide which one would affect the outcome of an interview most negatively and why. In addition, they say which one would be the most uncomfortable for them. After that, students look at topics related to job interviews (e.g. types of questions, online vs offline, interviewer’s behaviour, etc.) and discuss questions about them.
After talking about job interview tips, students complete gaps with words in the correct forms (e.g. grasp, weigh, seek, etc.).Then, students match questions with their answers from the previous task. Afterwards, they read about the STAR approach, a structured method for answering behavioural interview questions. Finally, students look at different situations and choose one to discuss using the STAR approach. They also use job interview vocabulary in their answers.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students read descriptions of different types of formal meetings and come up with statements they might hear during each of them. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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Hey there!
You know what, I guess people who make these videos are not actually aware of what language learners really need.in order to have a great performance doing job interviews. It’s not a matter of how to behave, but, how to keep a professional conversation with the interviewer. Most applicants have already done that at least once, in their native language. These videos and lessons should focus more on real interview questions and answers examples. The issue here is practicing the language, not the posture.
I’ve already seen this video before, and I don’t think it’s worth using for what this lesson proposes.
I wish you guys provided us teachers with something more helpful.
Thanks for the attention.
Ah, and another point I forgot to mention is that most interviews, nowadays, are done remotely, which makes these tips on behavior useless.
Hey, Agnaldo! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You’re right that the video doesn’t focus on online interviews and some of the tips shared there wouldn’t be applicable (still online interviews are not devoid of non-verbal communication). Nevertheless, there’re are some tips and ideas for answering common interview questions, which I believe are universal.
In terms of the lesson itself, we do focus on practising language for interview-specific situations in (I believe) meaningful way – just look at exercises 7-10, where your students will be able to role play some interview scenarios.
BTW we do have a short lesson about online interviews but it’s a CRC lesson focused on speaking. It’s called How to do an online job interview right.