Lesson 13
Talking about your career goals
Write your answers to the following questions in the table
Questions Short-term goal Long – term goal
1. What are your Ex: My short-term goal is to get a job as an Ex: My long-term goal is to become an English
career plans? teaching assistant. teacher.
❖ Your answer: ❖ Your answer:
My short-term goal is to get a job as an English My long-term goal is to become a professional
teaching assistant. English teacher.
2. How do you get Ex: Being a teaching assistant enables me to Ex: Jobs like English teaching can provide me
interested in broaden my teaching horizon from other with some perks such as high salary, flexible
that teachers, develop my teaching skills further and schedule, paid time off and annual training
job? accumulate experience. programs.
❖ Your answer: ❖ Your answer:
Being an English teaching assistant enables me to Jobs like professional English teacher…………
learn teaching techniques, improve my can provide me with a stable career, opportunities
communication skills, and gain valuable to travel and teach abroad, flexible schedules, and
classroom experience. personal fulfillment by helping others succeed.
Lesson 14
Talking about your strengths, weaknesses and work-related challenges
Write your answers to the following questions in the table:
Questions Answers
1. What are your greatest strengths? Ex: I’m very organized as I can keep track of lots of different tasks at a time.
Besides, I have good writing skills and presentation skills.
❖ Your answer:
I’m very adaptable as I can adjust to new environments and challenges quickly.
Besides, I have good communication and problem-solving skills.
2. What is your biggest weakness ? Ex: Sometimes I’m too detail- oriented, which makes lots of tasks pending and hold
me back at work, but that can be useful when I’m writing a report.
❖ Your answer:
Sometimes, I’m too careful, which makes me spend too much, but that can be
useful when checking for mistakes.
3. What is the biggest challenge Ex: I didn’t used to work with a team of more than 10 fellows so I found it
you’ve ever faced at work ? difficult to collaborate with other co-workers when we carried out a big project.
But now I’m a good team player.
❖ Your answer:
I used to / didn’t use to speak confidently in front of others so I found it difficult to
teach big classes. But now I’m more confident when talking to students.