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ESL Lesson Plan: A Perfect Resume / Cv

A Perfect Resume / Cv

Lesson Overview

This ESL resume lesson plan begins with a fun warmer which challenges students to think of reasons why people leave jobs before opening up a discussion. Next, quotes taken from an intriguing video are analysed, containing a series of vocabulary exercises at each stage and discussion questions. 

This is followed by a series of fun true or false…

This ESL resume lesson plan begins with a fun warmer which challenges students to think of reasons why people leave jobs before opening up a discussion. Next, quotes taken from an intriguing video are analysed, containing a series of vocabulary exercises at each stage and discussion questions. 

This is followed by a series of fun true or false questions, and thought-provoking questions. Afterwards, learners can use their knowledge to annotate and review mock resumes. Then, there are two super useful exercises which relate to the topic of the class. Finally, the lesson culminates with a synonyms task. Exercises:

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up task.
  2. Video quotes analysis.
  3. Video discussion. 
  4. Resume analysis.
  5. Idioms. 
  6. Debate.
  7. Synonyms task. 

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL resume lesson plan. Students are challenged to read an interesting article which is linked to the topic of the lesson, before being asked to write answers to challenging questions. Exercises:

  1. Article. 
  2. Writing task. 

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