Exploring Job Options
ESL Lesson PlansExploring Job Options

Exploring Job Options

This ESL lesson plan encourages teens to imagine their future careers in an individual setting, focusing on listening and speaking skills. Through reading and discussion, A2-level learners explore different professions, including builder, journalist, and charity shop assistant, and identify the skills needed for each. The lesson includes interactive video exercises and matching tasks, enabling students to reflect on personal goals while practicing future simple structures.

Skills

  • Can make him/herself understood in an interview and communicate ideas and information on familiar topics, provided he/she can ask for clarification occasionally, and is given some help to express what he/she wants to.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
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Read the text describing Tom, Anna and Mike.

What do you think could be a good job for each of them?
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Tom is 16 years old and loves to write stories. He always asks many questions and likes to know what is happening in the world. Tom is good at talking to people and finding out interesting information. Anna is 17 years old and loves to help people. She volunteers in her free time. Anna likes to organize clothes and other items for donation. She is very friendly and always has a smile on her face. Mike is 18 years old and he likes to build things and fix things that are broken. Mike helps his dad with fixing things around their home.
Your answer:
2

Watch the video and answer the questions.

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Glossary

4

Match the halves to find the best jobs for Tom, Anna and Mike.

5

Discuss the following questions.