Talking about jobs
Overview
Welcome to our adult beginner ESL lesson plan on vocabulary related to professions. This is the first of three lessons that aim to enhance your students' knowledge of language associated with jobs and the workplace.
The lesson plan encourages your students to work in groups and participate in various classroom activities requiring minimal resources. Additionally, we include a warm-up exercise, sample boardwork and a recommended homework task to encourage students to reinforce their learning beyond the classroom. We end the lesson with a classroom game to further solidify the target vocabulary.
Lesson Outline
Warmers
Giving personal information
Ask each student a few simple questions based on everything they have learned in the course so far.
Classroom activities
Use of the board
Elicit vocabulary from your students that relates to professions.
Making a statement
The students will work in pairs to think of statements about characters drawn on the board.
Extraction
The students review the different question structures we can use when having a conversation about working life.
Interview time
The students will practise talking to another person about what they do.
Suggested homework
The students have to write about someone close to them.
Classroom games
Pictionary
Players have to draw images of the newly learned vocabulary on the board while their teammates guess what they are.
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180+ ESL lesson plans
8 Distinct language levels
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