Pre-intermediate Unit 7d

Life Teacher’s notes

Communicative worksheet
With a strong class, ask students to
A job interview improvise the interview in pairs.

1 Write ASTRONAUT on the board. Then

With a weaker class, ask students to work
tell students that you are at a job
in pairs to prepare and write the interview
interview to get a job as an astronaut. Tell
before acting out.
students to ask you job interview
questions. Elicit and answer questions. At
When students have finished, they change
the end, write up any interesting or useful
roles, and move on to the next interview.
questions used by your class.

5 Ask some pairs to act out one of their

2 Ask students to look at the pictures in
improvised or prepared interviews for the
the story. Ask:
class. To create a task for the class, write
Where are they?
the following question on the board and
What jobs are they applying for?
ask students to listen and find the
What questions are the interviewers
answers:
asking?

Does the interviewee get the job?

Elicit ideas and expressions from the
students, for example: astronaut, circus
6 Personalise
performer, acrobat, clown, lion tamer,
Ask students to tell you about any job
explorer, adventurer.
interviews that they have experienced.
Ask them to tell you what questions they
3 Hand out the student worksheets.
were asked and what they said.
Students put the words in order to make
questions, then compare their answers
7 Writing
with their partner. In feedback,
Ask students to prepare a job
brainstorm other questions they could
advertisement for one of the jobs on the
ask.
picture worksheet.

4 Ask pairs to choose roles and to prepare

questions that they could use in the first
interview.