Jobs and Occupations
Aims
Goal: say what you do and ask other people about their jobs — the first question at every party.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: What do you do?
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: What Do They Do?
Read a 110-word text about What Do They Do?
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Job Words
5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: What Is Their Job?
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match Jobs and Places
Matching exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Make Sentences About Jobs
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: What Do You Do? At a Party
Role-play: You meet a new person at a friend's party. You talk about jobs. (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your Mission: The Party Question
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
This plan comes from the Family & People course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.