This ESL A1 jobs lesson plan begins with a fun warm-up exercise where students rank different jobs. Next, there are two picture-and-answer tasks before an engaging dialogue exercise.
The listening exercise challenges students to listen to a short audio about Kathy’s job before answering some multiple-choice questions. The past tense is studied before being explored in even more detail through a reading exercise.
The final exercise is focused on speaking, presenting the perfect opportunity for learners to use everything they've learned in the class in a fun and engaging manner.
Exercises:
- Warm up.
- Vocabulary: Jobs.
- Vocabulary: Place of work.
- Dialogue: Who wants a job?
- Listening task.
- Grammar: Past tense.
- Reading: Where did you work last summer?
- Let’s talk.
Homework:
As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL A1 jobs lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of past tense exercises which follows on from the lesson.
Next, they are asked to write a job application email after being given a detailed scenario. In the task, they are given clear scaffolding to support them in structuring their email.
Exercises:
- Grammar: Past tense.
- Job application.
