This ESL A1 jobs lesson plan begins with a fun warm-up exercise where students rank different jobs. Next, there are two picture-and-answer tasks before an engaging dialogue exercise. 

The listening exercise challenges students to listen to a short audio about Kathy’s job before answering some multiple-choice questions. The past tense is studied before being explored in even more detail through a reading exercise.

The final exercise is focused on speaking, presenting the perfect opportunity for learners to use everything they've learned in the class in a fun and engaging manner.

Exercises:

1. Warm up.
2. Vocabulary: Jobs.
3. Vocabulary: Place of work.
4. Dialogue: Who wants a job? 
5. Listening task. 
6. Grammar: Past tense.
7. Reading: Where did you work last summer? 
8. Let’s talk.

Homework:

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL A1 jobs lesson plan. Students are challenged to complete a series of past tense exercises which follows on from the lesson. 

Next, they are asked to write a job application email after being given a detailed scenario. In the task, they are given clear scaffolding to support them in structuring their email.   

Exercises:

1. Grammar: Past tense.
2. Job application.