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    This document provides guidance on talking about skills and strengths. It encourages learners to think about the skills needed for work, study, and hobbies. Learners practice describing skills using adjectives and forming sentences about their own abilities. Dialogue exercises have learners discussing skills and assigning roles in a charity event based on people's strengths.

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    Talk about skills and strengths

    A2.1

    Talk about skills and


    strengths
    After this class, you'll be able to talk about things
    you are good or not good at.

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    Talk about skills and strengths

    What skills do you need for your work/study/hobby?

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    Talk about skills and strengths

    Transform the sentences

    1. baking/he/great/is/at .

    2. terrible/at/they/time management/are.

    3. a/public/is/confident/she/speaker.

    4. a/you/team/OK/at/are/organizing?

    5. he/what/good/is/at?

    6. painters/are/professional/all/we.

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    Brainstorm
    Adjectives to describe skills

    Positive Neutral Negative

    excellent alright awful

    In pairs, form sentences using each adjective that are true for you, eg. I am excellent at rock climbing.
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    Two truths and a lie

    In pairs, think of two truths about your skills and one lie.
    Take turns to guess the lie.

    A I am amazing at playing the guitar. I am terrible at maths and


    I am OK at giving speeches.

    B I know you are a musician so the first one must be true.


    Hmmm… I think you are actually bad at giving speeches!

    A False!

    B Oh no! Then you must be great at maths!

    A Also false! The lie was that I am amazing at playing the


    guitar, I’m actually a music producer and I can’t play guitar at all!

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    Complete the text


    When I was younger I studied Art at university and
    thought of myself as someone imaginative but ____. I
    learnt many ____ skills such as painting, sculpture,
    graphic design and even sewing. ____, I also learnt many
    other skills such as developing a concept, teamwork, ____
    thinking and how to communicate my ideas with others. I
    worked as a sculptor for several years but I ____ it difficult
    to work on my own all the time. I discovered that all those
    years working on my artistic projects had ____ me
    excellent project management skills. Now I work as a
    project manager for a local educational charity and I love
    it!

    given however creative


    found critical unorganized

    British English learnt


    QAE learned

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    Ask and answer

    ● What skills did you have when you were younger?

    ● What skills have different jobs/study programmes given


    you?

    ● What is something you would like to be better at?

    ● What is something you think you will never be good at?

    ● Which of your skills makes you suited to your


    job/study/hobby?

    ● What skills do people in your family have?

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    Complete and play the dialogue

    Hi everyone, we need to organize this year’s


    charity fundraiser! First of all we need some
    live music, who wants to (1)____that! Arum has great music taste and knows a lot
    of local bands, she should take (2)____ of that!
    Excellent. Next we need someone who can
    cook something cheap and tasty to feed a
    crowd. I’m (3)____ to do that. My family is huge so I’m
    (4)____ good at cooking food in large
    quantities.
    Perfect. Talking about the food being cheap,
    we need someone to take care of the (5)____.
    How (6)____ Adamu? He is very organized and
    good with numbers.

    about pretty happy budget organize charge

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    Prompt/question

    ● In your group, imagine you are organizing an event


    to raise money for charity.
    ● You have a limited budget.
    ● Assign roles to everyone based on their skills.
    ● Plan your event. Include:
    ○ Entertainment
    ○ Decoration/venue
    ○ Advertising
    ○ Food
    ○ Management roles
    ● Explain to the class what roles everyone has and
    why.

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    Today I’ve learnt a new...

    CULTURAL
    WORD EXPRESSION
    TAKEAWAY

    Remember to
    save the chat!

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    And now? Practise more with Babbel!

    With your Babbel App With our podcasts With our magazine

    Remember to
    save the chat!

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