Life skills B2 Unit

Evaluating jobs James (3 skills)

  Before watching
Tope (3 skills)
1 Circle one or both letters to show how the words
and expressions relate to jobs.
Q: personal qualities you need
G: things a job gives you 3a 09 Try and answer the questions from memory.
Then watch again to check or complete them.
1 challenges Q / G 2 communication skills Q/G
Who …
3 creativity Q / G 4 flexibility Q/G
1 has to make boring things interesting?
5 patience Q / G 6 presentation skills Q/G

7 prospects Q / G 8 responsibility Q/G
2 likes working in a team?
9 satisfaction Q / G 10 training Q/G
11 variety Q / G 12 workload Q/G
3 helps people with real-life issues?
  While watching
2a 09  VIDEO SKILLS  Read the video skills box. Then copy 4 was influenced by a teacher?
the table. Watch the video and complete it with
brief notes. 5 likes doing manual work?

6 had doubts about the workload of his profession?

3b Which of the three jobs would you most like to do?

Deana James Tope Why?
Deana James Tope
  After watching
Job
4a Look again at the skills that the three speakers
need for their jobs. How many of these skills do
Reasons for you have? Which ones do you think you could
choosing job develop? Are there any that you think you’ll
never have? Why?
What he/she
likes 4b SKILLS 4 LIFE  Write an advert for your perfect job.
Follow these steps.
1 First, make a list of your skills. Use those you
identified in 4a, and then add more. Now make a list
VIDEO SKILLS: Recognising emphasis of the things you would look for in a job, even if you
1 Verbs and adjectives: I love, I’m passionate about don’t have a specific job in mind.
2 Adverbs: always, constantly, definitely, actually 2 Look at your lists and invent the perfect job to
match your skills and expectations. Then think of a
3 Expressions: First and foremost, … Most importantly,
name for this new job.
… At the end of the day, …
3 Write an advert for your new job.
4 Sentence structure:
What I love about … is …
The things I really enjoy are …, REFLECT ON IT
not just … but also …
Why can it be so difficult for young people to know
not … at all
what they want to do when they finish studying?
I do like … but …
How can they solve this problem? Think of
different ways.
2b 09 Watch again and make a note of the skills
the speakers need. Write the number of skills
given, if you can.
Deana (6 skills)

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