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Life Skills Lesson Plan
Life Skills Lesson Plan
16 plans Starter You just never know What jobs did these celebrities do previously? Here are a list of celebrities and previous jobs. Pupils could guess what they used to do. Tom Cruise - paperboy/was going to train as a priest! Pamela Anderson - fitness instructor Jennifer Aniston - waitress (Warren Beatty - rat catcher) Orlando Bloom - worked on a pigeon shooting range Boy George - Tescos (he was sacked for choosing to wear the stores carrier bags) Sean Connery - milkman Coolio - firefighter Simon Cowell - teaboy/worked in mail room (of EMI music)/had just two O levels!!! Cindy Crawford - studied chemical engineering Johnny Depp - pen salesman Danny Devito - hair stylist Walt Disney - ambulance driver Lady Gaga- worked in a greek restaurant Whoopi Goldberg - bricklayer/bank employee Mick Jagger - porter in a mental hospital/sold ice-cream Angelina Jolie - wanted to be a funeral director Matt Le Blanc - carpenter Madonna - worked in Dunkin Donuts Marilyn Monroe - worked on an assembly line - in a munitions factory (she was spotted there) Ozzy Osbourne - worked in a slaughterhouse Brad Pitt - drove limos/moved fridges Pink - flipped burgers and cleaned toilets at McDonalds Jo Brand - psychiatric nurse Elvis Presley - truck driver J K Rowling - researcher/school teacher Katherine Jenkins - primary school teacher Sting - labourer/tax officer and then became a teacher Steven Spielberg - kept insects from fruit trees Rod Stewart - grave digger
Quick discussion of event/positives/negatives Please ask pupils to fill in an evaluation form. All information is for this school only and is confidential.
Pupils have a number of choices to make about their future. They need to be thinking and planning this now. Whether to begin a new course at a sixth form or college, or enter employment and training, these options will give pupils a sound base on which to build a career.
Idea improve your interview s!ills !plain to the students that they will be role1playing a 6ob interview. Working in threes& ask the students to agree the 6ob that they will be interviewed for. )ne student will be the interviewer& one will be the interviewee and the final group member will be the observer who provides constructive feedback.
Idea " - #ersonal $evelopment %ollage ach student will need a piece of poster board or large sheet of construction paper& glue stick& scissors& a marker or crayons and maga5ines and/or newspapers to cut images and words from. :ave students fold their poster board or construction paper in half. ;e!t tell students to write on one side of the paper <:ow I See =yself ;ow.< )n the other half& instruct them to write <:ow I Would 3ike "o See =yself.< ;e!t have students cut images and words out of the maga5ines and newspapers to represent each side of their collage. ncourage them to write on their collage as well. *fter the collages are created and have had time to dry& set up classroom chairs in a circle and have students share their collage. ,iscuss ways each student can achieve personal goals of how they would like to see themselves in the future. #lenary If you had to choose one person in the class to be> a doctor a teacher a policeman a fireman a lawyer a pilot a banker a soldier who would it be+ Investigate why+ What skills/attributes has this person that led you to make that decision+
Please thank everyone for their (on the whole) excellent behaviour at the event.