What’s your job like?

Lesson overview

In this lesson, the students:

  • enrich their vocabulary (adjectives connected with jobs and job interviews)
  • read a variety of job listings and discuss their work preferences
  • write their own job listing
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Vocabulary and writing

A vocabulary-packed lesson with all the positive, negative and neutral adjectives to describe a job (e.g. demanding, rewarding, lucrative). To start, your students will read job adverts with highlighted words. It’s also a perfect reading task for FCE / B2 First – multiple matching style. Their role is to match the job posts to Anna, Beatrice, Charles and Dax, who presented themselves in a short text. After reading, we continue with vocabulary-focused exercises. Matching words from the text to the definitions and using them in sentences. Make sure they understand the meaning perfectly by asking them job-related questions with the adjectives. Finally, writing a job post offer – either as a finisher or optional homework.

This lesson contains

  • a lesson plan for students in PDF for download (Student’s Brick)
  • a lesson plan for teachers with key and teaching notes in PDF for download (Teacher’s Brick)
  • an online presentation in Google Slides (Online Brick)

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