AdditionAl lifeSkillS leSSon Unit 3 Work and Career: understanding your learning style Objective

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AdditionAl lifeSkillS leSSon
Unit 3 Work and Career:
understanding your learning style
Objective: to provide further practice of this soft skill 
within the area of Work and Career (using different 
techniques to learn a work procedure and some careers 
advice).
The three-step strategy for developing this soft skill is:
Step 1 Identify your main learning style. (Ex. A)
Step 2 Use it to help you learn new things. (Ex. B)
Step 3 Try other styles to help support your 
learning. (Ex. C)
You may decide to highlight this strategy at the 
beginning of the lesson, at the end, or as you go 
through the exercises. However, if you prefer to teach 
this lesson without discussing the underlying soft skill, 
this is also possible. The lesson is designed to be 
engaging and successful either way.
For more information about teaching life skills and ideas 
for how to highlight the soft skill, please refer to p. 29 of 
the Elementary Teacher’s Book.
MateriaLS:
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board and markers
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copies of the instructions for filing new 
documents and the five-step plan for a 
successful interview from Ex. B and Ex.C
(one copy per student) (optional)
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coloured markers (optional)
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sheets of A4- or A3-sized paper (optional)
Lead-in
To set the context for this lesson, write the following 
questions and answer options on the left-hand side of 
the board:
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Do you prefer to study a) alone or b) with friends?
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If you learn a new skill at work, do you prefer to
a) learn it alone or b) learn with people you
work with?
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When you learn something new, do you prefer to
a) think a lot or b) talk a lot?
Give the students a minute to read the questions and 
think about their answers. Take a class vote to see which 
option is the most popular in each case.
Explain that if their answers are mostly a, they probably 
prefer an intrapersonal (solitary) learning style. If 
they answered mostly b, they probably prefer an 
interpersonal (social) learning style. Erase the board and 
write these two learning styles on the left-hand side.
If you wish, ask the students to recall the lesson from the 
Elementary Student’s Book, pp. 40–41 and say what they 
learnt (e.g. 
that different people prefer different learning 
styles, including interpersonal, visual, kinaesthetic and 
linguistic; that using your preferred learning style helps 
you learn better but you can also practise other styles
etc).
Elicit or give the other learning styles visual, kinaesthetic 
and linguistic and add these to the list on the board.