Find Your Path - Session 5

Session 5 · What's next?

GIVE IT
A TRY!

Talk about a work experience placement, express your expectations, and compare want, expect and hope.

😀 Feelings💬 Expectations🧩 Grammar detective👜 My perfect placement

50 min · class mission

Today’s goal: I can talk about a work experience placement and express my expectations.

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Session menu

7 steps

Ready for work experience?

Follow the path: react, imagine, compare, read, and speak.

Use the worksheet and reuse the three key structures all lesson long.

WANT
+ someone + to + BV

EXPECT
+ someone + to + BV

HOPE
+ subject + verb

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Ready

1

Warm-up · first day at work!

5 min

How would you feel?

Choose two feelings, then complete the sentence.

I would feel … because ….

Model ideas: because everything would be new · because I wouldn't know anyone · because I could discover a new job

Pair work: share your sentence with your partner.

2

What do you expect?

7 min

Jamie is starting work experience in a vet clinic. For each situation, tick I expect this or I don't expect this. There may be different answers: be ready to justify.

I EXPECT THIS 👍

I DON'T EXPECT THIS 👎

1. see lots of animals

2. the vet shows Jamie how to examine an animal

3. clean the cages

4. give injections alone

5. make coffee all day

Complete the sentence

Jamie expects the vet to …

Selections: 0 / 5

3

Grammar detective

7 min

Detective mission

Read the three model sentences and spot the pattern.

Then match each sentence with the right grammar structure.

Sentence 1

I want my instructor to help me.

Sentence 2

I expect my instructor to explain my tasks.

Sentence 3

I hope I will learn new skills.

WANT

+ someone + to + base verb

EXPECT

+ someone + to + base verb

HOPE

+ proposition (subject + verb)

Spot the structure · then reuse it in the next activities.

4

Work experience stories · Harry & Layla

13 min

Read in your book

Mission 1: find the names and places. Mission 2: choose H, L or B for each statement.

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1. worked in a golf shop

2. worked with a journalist

3. helped customers

4. interviewed people

5. made new friends

6. discovered useful skills

7. had a positive experience

Choose H, L or B, then check.

Harry · golf shop | Layla · journalism

5

My perfect placement

8 min

Choose one place

Complete the frames. Click if you want to reveal a model answer.

Current choice: …

⭐ I want my instructor to…

show me what to do.

🧩 I expect my colleagues to…

be friendly.

💜 I hope I will…

learn new skills.

⛔ I don't want them to…

leave me alone all day.

Speaking prompt: In a work experience placement, I want / I expect / I hope…

6

Placement corners

6 min

Choose your corner

Move to the corner that suits you best. In your group, find one expectation you all share.

Our common expectation: …

Choose one speaker for the group.

7

Exit ticket

4 min

Homework · Work experience wish list

Place / field: .......................................................

I want ..............................................................

I expect ...........................................................

I hope .............................................................

I don't want .......................................................

My future work experience

I would like to do my work experience in …

I expect my instructor to …

I hope I will …

Final reminder

Check your grammar: after expect, do you have someone + to + verb? After hope, do you have a subject + verb?