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LESSON PLAN


Teacher: Mihaela Constantina Vatavu
Date: June 11
th
, 2014
School: Colegiul Economic Administrativ Iasi
Class: 11
th
(B2 upper intermediate)
Title of the Lesson: "Jobs and Careers"
Lesson length: 50 minutes
Skills: reading, speaking, writing
Aids: notebooks, worksheets
Lesson Aims:
To introduce job-related vocabulary
To enrich students vocabulary connected to work environment
To encourage students to guess the meaning of new vocabulary from contextual clues
To develop speaking micro-skills
Objectives: by the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:
Use the vocabulary related to jobs and careers in sentences of their own
Use the topic related vocabulary in order to find out information from their peers
Express opinions on the topic

Techniques: conversation, dialogues, pair work
Types of interaction: frontal, pair work
Assumptions: the topic will raise the students' interest.


Aids/Materials: blackboard, worksheets
Assessment: oral, marks
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Lesson Stages

Stage Stage Aim Procedure Inter-
action
Time
Warm Up To create a pleasant
atmosphere
T greets the students and introduces herself. T asks the students to introduce themselves by
first name
T: Ss 3
Lead in To introduce the topic The teacher announces the title of the new lesson and writes it on the blackboard: Jobs and
Careers. Ss are asked to write it down in their notebooks.
Vocabulary: T asks the Ss to say what job or profession they want to have in the future, and
then gives the difference in meaning between job, profession and occupation.

T:Ss
Ss:Ss
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Activity 1 Presenting the core of
the topic vocabulary
T writes three headings on the blackboard (Getting a job, Working, Leaving/losing a job),
each one corresponding to a column and asks Ss to give as many words and phrases as they
know related to the three sections (e.g. application, full-time job, period of notice, etc.)

T:Ss 10
Activity 2 Controlled practice T asks students to do exercises 1 and 2 in their worksheets so that the vocabulary presented
in the previous stage could be practiced. Teachers role: controller
T:Ss 10
Activity 3 Presenting additional
vocabulary
T asks students to brainstorm for skills and qualities related to jobs in general and elicits the
skills related to the teacher profession (students use the information from exercise 3 in their
worksheet). Ss use the model to describe the skills required in other jobs.
Ss:Ss
T:Ss
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Activity 4 Controlled practice Ss do ex. 4 in their worksheet T:Ss 2
Activity 5 Pair work T introduces the activity Guess my job by questions. One member of each pair of students
is given the name of a job they should interview the other person for. Without telling their
partner what job they are being interviewed for, they should ask suitable questions for that
job. Their partner can answer with true answers or their imagination, as they wish.
Ss:Ss 10
Class
Presentation
Students present their
pair work
Students who guessed the job present their questions, as examples, to the class.

Ss:Ss
T:Ss
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Evaluation The teacher evaluates
the students
The teacher evaluates some of the students who have been active during the class orally and
gives them marks.
T:Ss 2
Follow-up The teacher assigns the
homework
The teacher asks the students for the next class to do ex. 6 in their worksheets T:Ss 2 mins