Lesson Plan: Finding a Job and Avoiding Job Scams

Lesson BasicsClass level: Low Beginning Topic: Finding a Job and Avoiding Job ScamsLength: 2 hours

Objective(s): Discuss and practice different ways to find a job and warn against job scams.Benchmarks from Virgnia’s Adult ESOL Content Standards:Speaking: S2.1b, S2.1c, S2.2a, S2.4b Reading: R2.2a, R2.2d, R2.3b

Linguistic Skills:Orally give personal informationAnswer and ask questionsRead a want adParticipate in group discussionsExpress an opinion or position or predict an outcomeand follow oral and written directions.

Workplace Competencies:Identify, organize, plan, and allocate resourcesParticipate as a team member and be able to work in a culturally diverse environmentUnderstand how social, organizational, and technical systems work and to function effectively within them.

Materials/Equipment: Wordsearch worksheet (attached) Work from Home sign Cloze Exercise with Ads Ways to find a Job Handout Want ads from the Internet and newspaper

This lesson assumes that you have done a lesson on filling out a Job Application. Now the student is ready to find a job, and this lesson explains the many ways to do that.

Stages of the Lesson Plan

Warm Up/Review Today is ___________. The weather is_______________. News? (I use this to begin every class.)

Wordsearch: Use the Wordsearch grid provided to have students work in pairs trying to find the following words: help, wanted, hiring, apply, sign, ad(vertisement), employee, employer, scam.

Introduction/PresentationGo over the pronunciation, meaning, and any needed explanations of the word search words.

Show picture of workers outside Home Depot. Discuss – is this a good way to find a job?

Show picture of enlarged “Work from Home” type ad (or sign) – Ask: Is this a good way to find a job? (Probably not, because it’s “too good to be true”. They usually ask you to buy something, and then you don’t make any money at all.)

What are good ways to find a job?Ask: Do you have a job? How did you find your job?

Show additional ad pictures (newspaper and internet ads worksheet).

Guided Practice Step 1: Ways to Find a Job: Write the words for each picture on the line under it. (There are several different signs with slightly different vocabulary to discuss.) The teacher models and the students copy.

Step 2: Hand out pictures of ways to find jobs – from the above exercise. I suggest giving your best students pictures of scams because they will use the negative statement. Have each student decide what method of finding a job is shown in their picture. Have each student present their “way” by using the sentence: I will _____________________to find a job. OR I will NOT reply to “work at home” ads to find a job. Write on the board the sentence format that you will want them to use. Leave a blank to be filled in by them. Practice doing this a few times in pairs. Students show their picture and say the phrase to the other student. Then, have everyone in the class present their picture to the class while saying the phrase. Write all the phrases on the board and practice saying these orally.

Communicative PracticePart 1:Line Dialog: Have students line up in two equal lines facing each other. People in line (group) A hold up their pictures to show to the person facing them in line (group) B. The person in line (group) B says what the picture that the person in line A is showing, illustrates. For example, if the person in line A shows a picture with someone making circles around newspaper want ads, then the person in line B should say: “I will look at want ads to find a job”. Once the person in line B has responded with the correct sentence, they move to right in order to face the next person in line A. This giving of an oral response and then moving on to the next picture and person is repeated until everyone has had a chance to go through the line completely. When a person gets to the end of the line, they need to come up to the front of the line to continue the activity.

Part 2:One of the easiest ways to find a job is to ask your friends for advice. Model the dialogue and write it on the board:

Friend 1: I am looking for a job. Friend 2: I saw a Help Wanted sign yesterday. Friend 1: Where? Friend 2: It was at Walmart.

Then have students divide into pairs and practice the dialogue. If there is time, have them stand up and mingle asking others for advice about finding a job.

Application/Extension _______________________________________________________________________________ Do the cloze exercise that uses the phrases from “Ways to Find a Job”.

Suggest to learners to watch for signs, talk to friends, and find out if there are any jobs available. Take a picture of the signs you see, or write down what the signs or your friends say, so we can talk about it next class.

Evaluation/Assessment

Circulate during Guided and Communicative Practice to evaluate comprehension and mastery of the material. Provide help as needed.

Is this a good way to find a job?

Newspaper and Internet Ads:

Ways to find a Job: (Write the words under the pictures.)

1. 2. 3.

_______________________ ____________________ ______________________

4. 5. 6.

_____________________ ___________________________ _______________________________

7. 8. 9.

_____________________ ___________________________ _________________________

10 11. 12.

________________________ _________________________ ________________________

Watch for Signs Look at Want Ads Search the InternetTalk to Friends Go to Job Fairs Call Companies on the TelephoneAsk if they are hiring Reply to “Work at Home” ads

Cloze Exercise using the phrases from “Ways to find a Job”

Listen and write the word:

1. ________________ for signs

2. Look at Want ________

3. Search the________________

4. ___________to Friends

5. Go to __________ Fairs

6. Call Companies on the__________________

7. ______to the Virginia Employment Commission

8. _______ if they are hiring