ABSTRACT
Unit 2 discusses how teachers can identify the key skills and competencies that their students will need to make a successful job application. It shows how they can use sample key application documents such as CVs and application letters as the organising principles for designing lessons to help their students draft their own documents in simulated environments. Such documents serve as the core materials for their lessons, although teachers are also guided on how to search for other sample documents that may meet their students’ need more effectively. Following the teaching-and-learning cycle presented in the Introductory Unit, Unit 2 ends with ideas and suggestions for assessing students’ newly developed skills. To this end, the unit offers a set of Can-Do statements that students can use for self-assessment and an integrated task that can be used for both formative and summative assessment. The unit also includes reflection activities for the reader to make links between the theories discussed in the chapter and their own pedagogical practices, and extension tasks based on video clips and extra materials on the main topics of the unit. This is complemented with cultural and technology notes, language corners, and insights from research, all related to the discussions in the unit, and an annotated bibliography at the end of the unit.
