Урок "Your future is your choice"

Your future is your choice

Objectives:

can use vocabulary connected with job adverts;

can exchange opinions and create real-life situations;

can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions, plans and actions;

can analyze the material and the information

Resources:

recordings of arranging the interview

job adverts in various newspapers

 

Lesson Procedure

Warm up

T: I want to start today's lesson with a joke. Listen to it, please.

Mum: Come on, John, eat your breakfast, you'll be late for school.

John: I don't want to go to school. The teachers don't like me, the children       don't like me - even the caretaker doesn't  like me!

Mum: All the same, you must go.

John" Why should I?

Mum: Well, for one thing , you're 45 years old, and for another, you're the Headmaster!

T: Have you often met people, who are not satisfied with their work?

    What are the main reasons?

    What is important in choosing a profession?

    What is important when you work with other people?

Ss: Share their ideas.

 

Vocabulary work

T: Let's explore the following word groups. We will use them today and at our next lessons.

The first group is "How to get a job".

  -make an appointment

  - apply for a job

  -fill in a form

  -a letter of application

 

Another group is "Job adverts:what is offered".

-travel allowances

-accommodation provided

-fringe benefits

-company car

-good pay  and conditions

-accident insurance

-recreation facilities

-salary according to experience and responsibility

 

And one more "Job adverts: what is needed"

 -firm seeks general assistants

-relevant qualifications

-person required for the post of...

-references essential

-staff needed for our branch in...

-experience necessary

-send curriculum vitae (CV)

 

T: Match the questions on the left with the appropriate answers on the right:

 

1. What management responsibilities               A. You can write to my

will I have?                                                          previous employer.

2. Are there any recreation facilities?                B. There is a company flat

                                                                             for you.

3. Have you got references?                               C. I have a university degree.

4. What are the fringe benefits?                         D. You will be in charge of

                                                                               three people.

5.What are your qualifications?                         E. There is a staff sports club.

6. Do you provide accommodation?                  F. You can have free lunch in

                                                                              the company reataurant.

 

T:  When you are looking for a job, which things are the most important to

     you? Put the following in order of importance, and discuss your list with

     your partner.

 

management, responsibilities, accident insurance, pension scheme, good salary, free lunch, good working hours, rewarding work (not boring)

 

Reading         

T: Listen to the situation, please.

Sheila , Alice and Jake are sisters and a brother. They are all unemployed and want to apply for the jobs advertised here. Which job should each of them apply for? Think about qualifications, experience and abilities.

 

SS receive Handouts "Office Vacancies" and discuss the task in groups. Then the representatives of each group give their ideas and reasons for their decisions.

 

Listening

a) Pre-listening task

T: Imagine you are a student. You have 3 months' summer vacations. But you are broke.

*You can't travel because you are broke.

*You don't want to study (not all the holidays!)

*You don't want to stay at home (it's boring)

What should you do?

 

SS: Brainstorm ideas.

 

T: So, you think of a summer job for students.

Here is the situation:

Peter Brinkley wants the job in Spain, so he calls the office for information. Listen to the telephone conversation and note the time and the place of his interview. (See the tapescript "Arranging the interview").

 

T:  -What will Peter be asked at the interview?

     - What does he need to find out?

     Make a note and then listen to the interview that Peter has with the organizers.

Check your ideas.

(See the tapescript "Interview").

 

Role Play

T: Imagine you are applying for some other jobs. With your partner, take turns at being  the student, the telephonist and the interviewer.

Use the ideas from the dialogues you have listened to.

 

Home Assgnment.

Write a letter about the place you have chosen to work in summer. Describe the working and living conditions, your experience and impressions of the place and the work.

 

Closure. Evaluation. Comments