Jaxtina - TC - Activity Book - Lesson 13

Jaxtina - TC - Activity Book - Lesson 13

​​Are you career-ready? & Career alternatives

by Ngọc Minh Nguyễn

​Unit 4 Overview

• Talk about career readiness, career alternatives, and employability skills; talk about creative activities for adults, leisure activities for a weekend, and “do nothing” time.

• Use thinking skills: summarize, analyze and understand.

• Read about being ready for a career and about ‘kidults’.

• Use strategies to start and keep talking by giving negative answers, expressing doubt, and describing images;to repair talking by describing an activity, agreeing with a proposal, and explaining a concept.

• Use problem-solving skills to create a business plan for an entrepreneur.

​Lesson Overview

​Content Objectives

​Students will be able to

• write about a person who has been successful with a non-traditional career path.

• ​talk about skills, abilities, training, and qualifications

​Language Objectives

​Students will

• learn vocabulary about career and success.

• ​learn about present perfect with “already”, “yet” and “just”.

• ​learn about the difference between present perfect and simple past.

• ​practice pronouncing /j/ and /ʤ/

Open Ended

Practice 2. IN PAIRS. THINKING SKILL – Summarize. Read the article. Together, describe in your own words the three main factors in being career-ready

​Practice 2 - Answer key

​The three factors are:

• knowledge

• skills

• personal characteristics.

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

1. improve

• a. make something better

• b. understand

• c. know about

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

2. career-ready

• a. prepared to work

• b. ready to go to college

• c. having skills for a specific job

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

3. knowledge

• a. only academic information

• b. the opposite of opinion

• c. the facts you know about a topic

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

4. ability

• a. a fact

• b. a skill

• c. a characteristic

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

5. solve

• a. find a solution or an answer

• b. understand

• c. think about

Multiple Choice

Practice 3. READING SKILL – Understand vocabulary in context. Choose the meaning of the words in bold from the article in Practice 2.

6. qualifications

• a. grades in school

• b. skills or experience you need for a job

• c. hobbies

​Pronunciation

​career-ready /kəˈrɪər ˈred.i/

degree

knowledge /ˈnɑːlɪdʒ/

qualifications /ˌkwɒl.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

skill

training

​apply for a job /əˈplaɪ fər ə dʒɒb/

career path /kəˈrɪər pɑːθ/

get a promotion /ɡet ə prəˈməʊ.ʃən/

hires

benefits

get a degree /ɡet ə dɪˈɡriː/

get a raise /ɡet ə reɪz/

the corporate ladder /ðə ˈkɔː.pər.ət ˈlæd.ər/

Open Ended

Practice 6. IN PAIRS. Number the list in order of importance to you. Then share your list. Add more things, if possible.

1. a good salary 2. the chance to learn new things

3. the chance to get frequent raises

4. good benefits like a company car, health insurance, or long vacations

5. the chance to get promotions and climb the corporate ladder

​MAKE IT REAL

​In America English, people often use the simple past instead of the present perfect:

Did you eat yet? = Have you eaten yet?

I just bought a car. = I ‘ve just bought a car.

I already did my homework. = I’ve already done my homework.

Open Ended

Practice 9. Discuss the questions as a class.

1. Do you need a business degree to have your own business?

2. In general, do you need a college degree to have a successful career?

​Practice 10 - TRUE FALSE

​1. Carmen’s business sells food.

2. The business was very small when she started it.

3. Carmen studied business in college.

4. She graduated from college.

5. She started making ice cream as a hobby.

6. Customers like the flavor that Carmen has just created.

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​Practice 11

​bored, excellent, fantastic, great, not interested

1. Carmen’s opinion of the ice cream: __________

2. The interviewer’s opinion of the ice cream: __________

3. How Carmen felt one summer: ______________

4. Carmen’s attitude toward college: _________________

5. Carmen’s opinion of her sister’s idea: _____

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​Practice 12. THINKING SKILL

​Analyze. Compare how Carmen felt about learning about ice cream to how she felt about learning about architecture. How does motivation help you succeed?

​Practice 13

​Listen and say the words. Pay attention to the sound of the first letter.

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​yard year yellow yes yesterday yet you young

jacket jet job John juice Julie jump just

​Practice 14. IN PAIRS.

​Listen and repeat. Then practice reading together. Correct each other’s pronunciation when necessary.

1. Julie bought a yellow jacket yesterday.

2. Yes, you can have some juice.

3. Have you met John yet?

4. James has just started a new job in New York.

Open Ended

Practice 15. IN PAIRS. Make a list of any skills, abilities, training, and qualifications you have.

Do you think you’re career-ready?

​Practice 16. IN PAIRS.

​Discuss your lists and decide who you think is the most career-ready. Use the Confident Communicator box to help you.

​CONFIDENT COMMUNICATOR: KEEP TALKING

When we give negative answers, we often add reasons or further information.

A: Have you graduated yet?

B: Not yet. / No, I haven’t. / No, but I’m going to graduate this year.

A: What have you done to improve your knowledge in social work?

B: Nothing (yet). / I haven’t done anything (yet), but I’m going to do an internship.

Open Ended

Practice 17. Make notes and write about a person you know about who has been successful with a non-traditional career path.

- Who is the person and what did he/she do?

- Did that person go to college?

- How did the person prepare for his/her career?

- What else has the person done?