Making a Career Change
A guided journey from knowing yourself to telling your career-change story with confidence
Who it's for
Written for B1 (intermediate) students who handle everyday English and are ready for longer answers.
Changing career, confidence at work and landing the next job. More Career Development lesson plans
Skills it practises
- Vocabulary: a target word listevery lesson
- Reading: a text or news storyevery lesson
- Controlled practice: gap-fills, matching, sorting and moreevery lesson
- Speaking: discussion questions4 of 5 lessons
- Role-play: a dialogue to act out3 of 5 lessons
- An answer framework to structure what they say3 of 5 lessons
Lessons
- Who Am I at Work?Talk about your values, strengths, and what gives or takes your energy at work47 minFree
- Brainstorming Your OptionsGenerate career possibilities and weigh them up using speculation language53 minOutline
- Your Transferable SkillsName your skills and connect them to a new field with 'Even though I haven't..., I have...'54 minOutline
- Networking ConversationsAsk for advice politely, request an informational interview, and write a good first message1 hr 3 minOutline
- Telling Your Career-Change StoryAnswer 'Why the change?' positively using the Present-Past-Future framework56 minOutline
How to use it in a lesson
- Lessons run 47 to 63 minutes, with a timing on every stage, so you can see before you start what fits your slot.
- Start with "Who Am I at Work?": its whole plan is on this site, stage by stage, with the target vocabulary, free to read and to teach from on any video call.
- For a shorter slot, skip a practice stage or cut the discussion short: the stages are a guide, not a script.
Teach Making a Career Change with your student
Lesson 1 of this course is free. A free account opens it in the interactive player, and the rest of the course is included with Starter. Teaching it live with your student in the Tuton classroom starts with a 7-day free trial.
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