Nightmare jobs (Inside Out, p 41)
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide review of employment lexis
Subsidiary Aims
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To give students freer speaking practice and review lexis related to employment
Procedure (40-65 minutes)
I will write "WHAT IS YOUR JOB?" on the WB and ask their jobs. If there are a few interesting job titles I will put them on the WB.
Link from lead-in example.I will show the photos on the WB and ask them to guess the job titles. They discuss their answers in pairs. I will hand out the exercise 1 and Ss will do it by matching the photos with job titles from exercise 1. I will share my bad experience with them. This is followed by handling out the article.
I will explain the meaning of "Nightmare Jobs". This is a part of guessing the meaning of the words, a sub-skill practice. Ss read the article to infer the vocabulary. I will clarify some words and go round offering help with them where necessary. I will not explain the words that will be subject of the next exercise. I will ask them about the bad experiences from the article when they finish reading.I will do a small exercise to get the summary from the article by drawing an empty diagram on the WB with names, worst things and worst jobs as titles. I will ask students to come to the board and fill the rest: "Names/Worst Things/Worst Jobs"
I will modify the exercise 3. Before giving handouts, I will write the synonyms of these missing words on the WB and the first capital of the words that we look for. I will ask them to search them in the article. I will go around and monitor them to see if they are OK with it. If they find it difficult I will write my examples on WB and do it together WC. Ss will move on the exercise 3. I will mention Ss that these sentences are not from the article. They will try to find the missing word. I let Ss try them with in pairs. I will monitor the situation 10 minutes and do the exercise on the WB.
Ss will discuss this topic and finish with the speaking exercise. I will get Ss to relate the topic and personalize their experiences with exercise 4. I will get a few FB from Ss and finish the class.