Jobs. English Lesson Plan

Jobs Vocabulary Lesson Plan

Class:   8  

Lesson Time:   45  minutes

English level:   Pre-intermediate 

Expected number of students:   15

Context:  Understanding and recognizing selected Jobs.

Teaching aids: White/chalk board, On Screen 3 student’s book, job word cards and definition cards, running dictation texts.

Learner objectives:

For all students to speak in English using the jobs studied and to use English to describe how the jobs are done, when they are done and who does them. Students should also have the opportunity to practice correct pronunciation and spelling.                

Procedure 

1. Before class starts, the teacher will need to write the names of the jobs to be used during the lesson. 

The teacher begins by asking the students what jobs they know.  Also ask them to describe the jobs.

2. Student’s book activity.

Ask the students to complete the spider gram (lesson 1b, ex.2, p.12)

1) Ask the class to work in pairs to complete the spider gram by writing the job word next to the correct corresponding label.

2) Next have the students report their findings.  Assign each pair of students one or two job vocabulary words to translate   until all of the jobs have been translated.

3. Matching activity.

Hand the students out the word cards and the definition cards and ask them to match the cards by looking for each other. Once they have found their card-partner, they have to sit down together at the same desk.

Then the students work in pairs: have them make short sentences using the jobs studied.

• It might be that the students will match a few of the words incorrectly. Ask the class if they agree. 

4. Speaking practice.

 1) The students work in closed pairs. Ask one pair of the students to read aloud the dialogue on the board. Then other pairs practice the dialogue replacing another job word.

 2) Mingle speaking activity. Arrange the students in open pairs by providing mingle activity (students walk around the classroom looking for their random partner. Then they have a talk with the partner).

5. Running dictation.

One person at a time has to run up to the text, read the sentence, memorize it, run back to the rest of the team and dictate it. If someone can’t remember, he\she runs to read it again. The teams compete for the championship, but that doesn’t mean that they have won! They must check each other’s dictations.

6.        Wrap – up. Summarizing  

Running dictation material

My cousin Helena has a good job. She works in a computer shop. She knows a lot about computers and she can help customers to choose the right one. Her boss likes her very much. He says that she works well in a team and she’s good at selling. She sells a lot of computers every week! At the moment her young sister, Magda, is working in the same shop. But it’s only a summer job for her. Magda doesn’t work long hours. She starts at 9.30 and finishes at 12.30. Today Helena is teaching Magda about some new computers they have in the shop.

Matching activity material

Banker sb with an important position in a bank

Engineer sb who builds machines or vehicles

Graphic designer sb who designs pictures and texts for magazines, advertisements

Journalist sb who writes for newspapers or magazines

Judge the official in control of a court who decides how criminals should be punished

News presenter sb who presents the news on television

Office manager sb who is in charge of an office

Paramedic sb who has been trained to do medical work, bot who is not a doctor or a nurse

Professor sb who teaches at a university

Surgeon a doctor who is specially trained to perform medical operation

Tutor sb who teaches privately or at a college