Your Transferable Skills

B1 · Intermediate54 minCareer DevelopmentLesson 3 of 5 · Outline

Aims

Name your skills and connect them to a new field with 'Even though I haven't..., I have...'

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: What Are You Actually Good At?

    3 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Nobody Starts From Zero

    Read a 202-word text about Nobody Starts From Zero

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Skills Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Which Skill Is Hiding in the Task?

    Matching exercise, 7 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Even Though I Haven't...

    Word-ordering exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix These Skill Statements

    Error-correction exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Explaining Your Skills to a Hiring Manager

    Role-play: An informal chat with a hiring manager in a new field (3 lines)

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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.

transferable skillevidencegapadaptablecoordinateattention to detailpick up (a skill)underestimate

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