Discussing Your Experience and Skills
Aims
Goal: describe your experience in achievement statements — action verb + what you did + measurable result — and deliver a 60-second resume walkthrough built from them.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: What changed because of you?
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Duties don't get hired. Results do.
Read a 131-word text about Duties don't get hired. Results do.
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Experience and Skills Vocabulary
6 items
- Framework6 min
Framework: The Achievement Statement
The Achievement Statement, 3 steps
- Reading10 min
Reading: Model answers: three statements and the walkthrough
Read a 239-word text about Model answers: three statements and the walkthrough
- Practice7 min
Practice: Describe Your Experience
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Fix the Experience Descriptions
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Walking Through Your Resume
Role-play: The interviewer asks you to walk through your resume and highlight relevant experience. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: three statements, one walkthrough
3 discussion questions
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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.
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