Lesson 13

Talking about your career goals

Write your answers to the following questions in the table

Questions Short-term goal Long – term goal
Ex: My short-term goal is to get a job as an Ex: My long-term goal is to become an English
teaching assistant. teacher.
1. What are your
career plans? v Your answer: v Your answer:
My short-term goal is…………………….. My long-term goal is……………………..

Ex: Being a teaching assistant enables me to Ex: Jobs like English teaching can provide me
broaden my teaching horizon from other with some perks such as high salary, flexible
teachers, develop my teaching skills further and schedule, paid time off and annual training
2. How do you get accumulate experience. programs.
interested in that
job? v Your answer: v Your answer:
Being a(n)…………….enables me to…….. Jobs like………… can provide me with……..

Lesson 14
Talking about your strengths, weaknesses and work-related challenges

Write your answers to the following questions in the table:

Questions Answers
Ex: I’m very organized as I can keep track of lots of different tasks at a time.
Besides, I have good writing skills and presentation skills.

1. What are your greatest strengths? v Your answer:

I’m very…………..as I………….. . Besides, I have good……………skills.

Ex: Sometimes I’m too detail- oriented, which makes lots of tasks pending and hold
me back at work, but that can be useful when I’m writing a report.

2. What is your biggest weakness ? v Your answer:

Sometimes, I’m too……………, which makes………………., but that can be
useful when……………….

Ex: I didn’t used to work with a team of more than 10 fellows so I found it
difficult to collaborate with other co-workers when we carried out a big project.
3. What is the biggest challenge
But now I’m a good team player.
you’ve ever faced at work ?

v Your answer:
I used to / didn’t use to…………so I found it difficult to………… But now I……...