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Conversation skills: Job interviews

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Intermediate+/B2
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Profession
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45-60 min
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Overview

In this third lesson on the topic of profession, students will get the chance to practise job interviews. It serves as a fun way to introduce students to interview skills in English, enhancing their confidence and preparedness for real-world job opportunities.

We start with a review of the homework from the previous lesson, using boardwork to reinforce key concepts. Students will then engage in a series of low-resource classroom activities. These activities include discussions about unusual professions and mock job interviews for these roles. To wrap up, we’ll play a group game inspired by an old UK game show.

Lesson Outline
Warm-up
1Review homework
Activities
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Boardwork
1It's not for me
2Role play
Games
1Family fortunes
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Warmers

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Review homework

One at a time, students discuss the reading task assigned during the previous lesson.

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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

This is sample board work for the homework review activity. Your board will reflect the ideas given to you by your students. See the warm-up activity for more details.

As each student discusses their homework, record any vocabulary that you feel is appropriate to the upper-intermediate level. The boardwork below shows one way that you could do this.

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It's not for me

Students will have a discussion about some unusual jobs.

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Role play: Job interview

In pairs or groups of three, students will plan and act out a job interview scenario for one of the roles discussed in the previous activity.

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Suggested homework

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Classroom games

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Family fortunes: Careers

An adapted version of a classic UK game show that can be played in the classroom.

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