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The job that changed my life: Past tenses (narratives)

⏭️ Future Perfect & Future Progressive
💼 Careers & Job Satisfaction
📖 ESL Reading & Writing Activities
A2 ESL lesson — Let's get to know each other: Present Simple and personality vocabulary
This lesson is based on an Oxford study predicting that 47% of jobs could be automated by 2035. Students practice Future forms (Future Perfect and Future Progressive) to talk about completed actions and ongoing processes at a future point in time.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Learners focus on using the Future Perfect to describe what will have been achieved and the Future Progressive to describe what will be happening in the future. Activities include gap-fills, sentence transformations, and scenario-based predictions.

VOCABULARY BUILDING
Students expand vocabulary related to careers, job satisfaction, and workplace change, learning expressions to discuss employment, technology, and professional goals.

SKILLS & ACTIVITIES
Learners read about the Oxford study, join debates on automation and human work, and role-play workplace scenarios. Writing tasks include creating predictions about future careers and reflecting on job satisfaction in the age of technology.
This ready-to-use ESL lesson plan is designed for adults, combining grammar, vocabulary, and communication tasks to build both accuracy and fluency.
Fill-in-the-blank activity — Present Simple "to be" exercise
Picture-based grammar task — is or are with different subjects
Reading passage — Present Simple and personality adjectives in context
Audio listening task — speaking activity, write five sentences including one false

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