Qualities and skills at work
Warm-up questions to discuss
Vocabulary exercise. Read and discuss the meaning of the words with the students. Let them do the exercise on their own or together depending on their level of autonomy.
Making dialogues with the words. Pair work. Make up conversations about each other using the vocabulary from previous exercise.
Example.
-What are you like?
-I am very childish.
-Why do you say this?
-Because I keep making silly and childish jokes in the office.
Vocabulary work
Discuss professions with the students, writing them on the whiteboard, asking students what qualities people with these jobs need and afterwards let them do the exercise while sharing the screen and drawing lines to the appropriate definitions.
Let students skim the vocabulary if they are familiar with all the words, if no, let those ones who know, explain or explain yourself, organize short discussion what skills they need in their profession.
Online games
https://wordwall.net/resource/6366991/good-work-skills-or-bad-work-behaviour https://wordwall.net/resource/6497350/employability-skills
What skills are necessary for your particular job in order to be successful?
In case if you have enough time, you can give your students the text for reading, dividing it into different parts and let each student read his peace of the text, presenting his/her information afterwards.
You are going to read an article about the phrases to avoid in your career.
Do you think it is a bad idea to use them at your work? Why?
Read the article and put each phrase above the correct paragraph
Work with the text vocabulary