Unit 1: Your life and work

Workplace Skills

• Prepares for job interview
• Completes application
• Requests letter of recommendation
• Describes skills and abilities

Life Skills

• Engages in small talk
• Gets to know someone
• Asks for references

Civics Concepts

• Appropriate job interview dress and demeanor

Social Language

How to:

• initiate conversations
• give and accept compliments
• get to know someone

Grammar

• The present perfect continuous
• Gerunds for describing likes, dislikes, and skills

SCANS Competencies

• Interpersonal: Interprets and communicates
• Information: Organizes data

SCANS Foundation Skills

Listening

Understands:

• small talk
• interview questions

Speaking

• Role-plays a job interview
• Relates a personal experience

Reading

Reads:

• application forms
• advice about interview etiquette

Writing

• Completes employment applications
• Charts job skills
• Writes a composition

Thinking

• Classifies behavior as appropriate and inappropriate

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates courtesy and sociability
• Demonstrates self-management