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Unit 2 CAREERS

• Sesión 4: A job for life?

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01 A job for life?

UNIT 2.4
A five-year plan 02
Unit 2.3: A
job for life?
1. Utility (Utilidad)

By the end of the lesson,

you will be able to use
vocabulary about jobs for
the future and career
collocations to roleplay a
conversation about
learning skills for the
future.
1. Utility (Utilidad)

REVIEW OF CONTENTS
1. Utility (Utilidad)

Do you think people What kinds of new jobs

Do you think your job
will still be doing the might become more
(or a job you’d like to
same kinds of jobs as common, and what
do) will change in the
today in ten- or twenty- jobs do you think will
future?
years’ time? disappear?
2. Skills and Knowledge (Saberes)

AFTER READING

Ask and answer the following questions.

Does the article reflect what is happening in
your country?

How is your local employment situation similar

or different from that described in the article?

What kinds of changes, if any, would you like to

see regarding the jobs available locally?

Would you like to stay in the same job all your

life? Why or why not?
3. Innovation (Innovación)

Work in small groups.

Discuss the questions.
Why are you learning English? What will this
enable you to do in your work or life in
general?

What other languages do you think will be

useful to know in the future?

Are there skills that you didn’t learn at school

which might be useful for you in the future?
Which ones? Why will they be useful?
4. Accomplishment (Logros)

SELF-EVALUATION
• What did you learn today?
How are you going to use it in
your daily life?

• What do you (think you) need

to review a bit more?
Unit 2.4:
A five-year
plan
1. Utility (Utilidad)

Talk about the last time you applied for …

1. a job
2. a scholarship
3. a credit / debit card

Then answer these questions:

1. Did you do any of the things on
this list?
2. Why are these things important?
2. Skills and Knowledge (Saberes)

PRONUNCIATION
Listen to four sentences from the Useful language box. Notice how
the /d/ sound in these words is not pronounced – because it is
followed by a consonant.

1. could check
2. could prepare
3. good for
4. round to
2. Skills and Knowledge (Saberes)

PRONUNCIATION
Listen and repeat these sentences. Don't pronounce the bold /d/.

1. That would be great.

2. I should be able to get away early on
Thursday.
3. You’ll need to do a bit of research.
4. Will you send the checked form back to me?
2. Skills and Knowledge (Saberes)

PAIR WORK

Choose one of these situations:

a) You need help with your
CV.
b) You need help with
writing a letter.
c) You want to plan a trip
you are both going on.

Plan where, when to meet and what you

both need to bring to the meeting. Try to
use most of the phrases in the useful
language box.
3. Innovation (Innovación)

WRITING

Read the extracts from four job applications. Then answer the questions.

1. What is a career goals statement?

2. Which applicants do you think clearly state their
career goal? What are the goals?
3. How will he or she reach this goal?
3. Innovation (Innovación)

ANSWERS

A short text where candidates say what they intend to be

1. What is a career goals doing or will have achieved in their careers in the next five
years.
statement?
2. Which applicants do you think Applicants A, B and D clearly state their career goal.

clearly state their career goal?

What are the goals?
3. How will he or she reach this
goal?
3. Innovation (Innovación)

A friend who is applying to a

similar job to yours has asked to

help them to write a career goals

statement.

Write a statement which includes two goals.

3. Innovation (Innovación)

GROUP WORK

Compare your
statements and check
that they use formal
language where
possible. Work
together to see if you
can improve the
statements.
4. Accomplishment (Logros)

SELF-EVALUATION
• What did you learn today?
How are you going to use it in
your daily life?

• What do you (think you) need

to review a bit more?
4. References

Reference
•[1]Helen Stephenson, Lewis Lansford
&Paul Dummett (2016). Keynote (Split A) –
Upper Intermediate (1era edición).
2017:National Geographic Learning -
Cengage Learning.
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