This document outlines a 4-lesson course aimed at high school students to improve their skills for finding employment opportunities in another language. The key objectives are for students to understand the job market, enhance job searching abilities, and learn how to interview and prepare documents like CVs and cover letters. Lessons include searching online for relevant information, developing job searching strategies, creating a wiki page with resources, role playing interviews, and providing feedback. Students will explore opportunities, requirements, and conditions for living and working in various EU countries. Assessment involves observation of student work individually and in groups presenting dossiers about different EU country job markets.

1. MªCruz García Sanchis
Curs Capacitacio Ensenyament Llengua
Extrangera
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2. *
-Area: FOL
-Lessons: 4
-Ed. Level: High Vocational training

3. *
Legal objectives:
Students should be able to select employment
opportunities, identifying the different possibilities of
insertion and learning throughout life.
(http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2008/01/15/pdfs/A026
39-02666.pdf)
Other aims:
To understand the job market
To enhance students´ ability to search a job
To improve students´ capability to pass a job
interview and to write a proper CV and covering letter
To learn about work in the EU

4. * Search for relevant
information through Internet
* Develop strategies for job
searching
* Write some documents with
relevant information about
job searching and work in EU.
* Create a wiki page
* Elaborate a CV Europass and a
cover letter
* Role playing a job interview
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Students will share all the
dossiers, resources, and useful
information that they find in a
wiki. Each student will
develop their own wiki page
so they will create a common
resource for everyone. Finally
they will give feedback about
every student´s wiki page.

5. *
* Web resources:
* https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/es/home
* https://ec.europa.eu/eures/page/homepage?lang=en#
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glUd1g06PnU
* http://passthejobinterview.com/blog/top-10-most-common-interview-
questions-and-answers/
* Vocabulary resources:
* http://www.esolcourses.com/content/englishforwork/jobvocab/jobsearchvo
cab1.html
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/getthatjob/
* Wiki page: www.wikispaces.com
* Job searching vocabulary list
* Connexions UK sheets about getting a job

6. *
• Vocabulary related to job
searching, job application
and job interview
• A2 Grammar topics
• Critical thinking skills
• Presentation skills
• Writing skills
• Things to consider
before moving abroad
• EU citizenship
• Arriving: housing, tax,
health insurance, card
• Living and working
abroad
• Work in EU
• Europass
• Eures network
• Key EU websites and
programmes
• Making critical
judgements on working
abroad
• Investigate job
conditions around EU
• Search, analyse and
discuss information
Cognition Contents
Communi
cation
Culture
Student learning outcomes

7. * Prior to starting the unit, I
gave my students a dossier
with some useful vocabulary
about job searching and the
job market.
* I also gave them a document
made by Connexions UK
http://www.connexions-
northumberland.org.uk/) with
some helpful sheets to help
them through the steps of
getting a job
* 1.- Students write down some
of their own thoughts about
the pros and cons of working
in the EU
* 2.- In pairs, each student
could read what the other
wrote and they can combine
their answers into one
written statement
* 3.- Finally they can practise
presenting their conclusions
to the class
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8. *
*1.- Individually, each student will search for information
about working in EU, mainly in Eures network website and
choose a country.
*2.- Once every student has chosen a country, we organise
small groups around each country. Every group should
look for job information, arriving, living and working
conditions in the selected country and prepare a brief
dossier to upload in the wiki. Once the dossier is done,
every group will prepare a presentation about the
country.
*3. Every group will share their presentation with the class
*4.- Finally, the class will discuss which country offers
better work and living conditions.
Main Activities

9. *
*Eures videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLcA1FiZD
GE
*Read and critique:
http://elpais.com/especiales/2013/expatriado
s-por-la-crisis/
Reinforcement/extension

10. *
*Diagnostic: Teacher observes students in warm
up activities
*Formative: Teacher observation and students
self assessment through worksheets
*Summative: Students will elaborate a dossier
and will make a presentation to the class. Both
activities will be assess by a rubric
Assessment

11. *
*Vocabulary list
*Personal notebook with key expressions and
self assessment worksheets
*Tablets or portable computer
*Web resources:
https://ec.europa.eu/eures/page/homepage?l
ang=en
Material/resources