| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this ESL advanced lesson plan, your students will try to think what makes them employable. This time, the worksheet is based on two videos: the first one shows a group of professionals answering the question about employability and the second one is a short interview with Tony Walker, Deputy MD from Toyota. Students can learn some new vocabulary connected with skills they need to get a job, and start a comprehensive discussion about professional skills.
C1 / Advanced60 minStandard LessonUnlimited Plan
DISCUSSION AND VIDEO 1
This advanced lesson plan starts with a discussion on the term employability. Students need to think which aspects provided in the worksheet are connected with it. Then, they move to the first video in which a group of experts answer the same question.
VOCABULARY AND VIDEO 2
Next, there is a task on vocabulary. Students need to match words from box A with words from box B to make common phrases. Then, they should match them with their meanings. The expressions in this exercise appear in the next video, so it’s important to make sure that your students understand them. Before watching the second video which is an interview with Deputy MD from Toyota, students try to answer questions which will then appear in the video. After that, they can move to the video and see how Tony Walker has answered them. The worksheet finishes with a debate which can be conducted in pairs or groups, depending on your class.
EXTRA TASK – SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE WORKFORCE
Additionally, there is one extra task (see Teacher’s version) especially prepared for more advanced students or professionals. It pertains to the skills that according to the Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute will be needed in the future.
RELATED WORKSHEET – CRAFTING ELEVATOR PITCH
For this lesson plan we have also created an extra worksheet that supplements the lesson by adding a task where students need to talk about their skills and achievements. The extra worksheet focuses on crafting a perfect job interview elevator pitch, i.e. a short speech to answer the dreaded interview question: tell me something about yourself.
WORKSHEETS
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Very useful topic. I like the way it’s been organized. It guides the lesson quite fluently. thanks!
I’m happy to hear that! Thanks for your comment!
Great lesson! I’m anxious to see how it works in class.
This is such a great lesson and it was very effective with my classes. The only problem is that the exercise on Top Skills for The Future Workforce is missing from the students’ version of the lesson. Rather embarassing in the middle of a lesson but we solved the issue by taking a photo of the Teacher’s version and sharing it around the class. Please could you include this exercise to the Student’s lesson. Many thanks for a really useful and enjoyable lesson.
Hi! Great that you find this lesson so useful and that your students enjoyed it 🙂 Regarding our extra tasks, we only add them to the teacher’s version so that teachers can decide whether they want to use them, have time for that during class or whether a given task is suitable for their students. With this particular task, the info about it was only given in the lesson post, I’m sorry about that. We’ve just added a note about it also to the teacher’s version. And btw we’ve also updated the layout of the worksheets so that they’re more visually appealing now 🙂