Power verbs are used to make your resume sound more impressive.

1. Power Verbs
Vocabulary for Resumes
English 3: Chapter 5

2. Resume and Power
Verbs
• A resume is a document
that you give to a business
when you are asking for a
job.
• It provides background
information about you.
• Power verbs make your
resume more impressive.

3. • Develop English
skills
• Develop an
application
• Develop lesson
plans
to improve or make
something better
to create something new

4. • Provide after school
tutoring
• Provide books to
students
to give something to
someone

5. • Accomplish student
goals
• Accomplish assigned
tasks
to complete something

6. • Create student
activities
• Create artwork
• Create an app
to make something using
your own ideas

7. • Enhance student
scores
• Enhance the
quality of care
to improve something
to make something
better

8. • Utilize technology
in the classroom
• Utilize math skills
• Utilize problem
solving skills
to use something

9. • Achieve all A’s
• Achieve my goals
• Achieve a sales
target
to finish or win
something by working
hard

10. • Manage a classroom
• Manage business
meetings
• Manage a large
company
to govern or control a
group of people

11. • Arrange the desks in
straight rows
• Arrange a meeting
on Tuesday
• Arrange a schedule
to organize something
to make plans for a
future event

12. • Communicate with
parents
• Communicate in
French
• Communicate with
co-workers
to exchange thoughts
or feelings by writing
or speaking

13. • Participate in a
parade
• Participate in
classroom discussions
• Participate in a race
to take part in something
to work with others

14. • Organize my desk
• Organize a competition
• Organize playground
activities
to put in order
to setup according to a
system

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