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Unit 6 Job Hunting: first jobs, the STAR plan and articles

Week 13 · Unit 6 Job Hunting (A): an article on finding work today (reference only), word forms (qualify, employ, succeed, professional, compete), resume / polished / footprint / generic / approach / attitude, a role-play of career advice, interview words and the STAR plan (our own read-aloud text), a / an / the and no article · 3 lessons
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Finding work today: reading, word forms and advice

English Secondary 1 Term 1, Unit 6 opener and Lesson 1: pp. 80–83
GoalRead an article about a first job at fifteen, give reasons from the text, correct false statements and use word families.
New words
apply · to ask formally for a job or a placeexperience · knowledge or skill that you get by doing somethingemployer · a person or company that gives work to othersreliable · able to be trusted to do what you sayattitude · the way you think and behave towards somethingsucceed · to do what you wanted to do
Explanation

In an article that gives advice, the main ideas are often in the first sentence of each paragraph, and the advice is given with words such as should, need to, the best way is and make sure. To answer a question with a reason from the text, write your answer and then add because or the text says …. To correct a false statement, find the sentence in the text, change only the wrong word or number, and keep the rest. Many words belong to a family: succeed (verb), success (noun), successful (adjective), successfully (adverb). To choose a form, decide the part of speech of the gap: after a, an, the or an adjective we need a noun; before a noun we need an adjective; with a verb we need an adverb; after a subject we need a verb. Check the spelling of the changes: create, creation, creative, creatively. Your book has an article about the job market on page 81. Read it after this lesson and find the main ideas and the advice.

VerbNounAdjectiveAdverb
succeedsuccesssuccessfulsuccessfully
createcreationcreativecreatively
helphelphelpfulhelpfully
carecarecarefulcarefully
Worked examples

Finding your first job at fifteen is not only about money. Most countries do not allow teenagers to work full-time, so the best start is a small, safe task: helping at a school sports day, tidying books in a library or volunteering at a local club. These jobs give you experience, and experience shows employers that you are reliable. Before you apply, write down your skills. Are you good at talking to children? Do you keep things tidy? Then ask an adult to read your short application. If you succeed, you will learn how to work in a team and how to arrive on time. If you do not, ask what you can improve and try again.

Read the article. A grown-up can read it aloud first.
Main idea: a first job at fifteen is a small, safe task that gives experience. Advice: write down your skills, ask an adult to read your application and ask what you can improve if you do not succeed.
Reason from the text: Why do employers like experience? Because it shows that you are reliable. Correct a false statement: “Teenagers can work full-time.” The text says most countries do not allow it, so the correction is: Most countries do not allow teenagers to work full-time.
Word forms: “If you succeed, you will learn how to work in a team.” The verb is succeed. The noun is success, the adjective is successful and the adverb is successfully: She finished the project successfully.
Class activity

Skills list. Write a list of five skills you have (for example I am good at helping younger children). Next to each skill write a small job where you could use it. Then write three pieces of advice for a friend who wants a first job. Use the pattern You should … because …

Practice
1
What is the main idea of the article?
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Why do employers like experience?
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Correct the false statement: “You should not tell anyone about your application.”
4
Complete with the right form: She finished the poster ___ . (success)
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Complete with the right form: He is a very ___ boy; he always helps. (help)