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INTRODUCTION

An inventory in each unit provides a useful overview students to discuss in class and, if desired, to respond
of all the employment sector vocabulary, and a multi- to in writing. These questions encourage students
page Skills Check provides comprehensive practice to to relate the workplace context to their own lives and
support the occupational vocabulary and workplace experiences, to share opinions, and to engage in
communication lessons. Following the Skills Check, critical thinking.
each unit provides a cloze activity, a career research In Lessons 4 and 6, each workplace communication
assignment, a reading, an academic lesson, and a and job performance conversation has an
listening activity. accompanying activity at the bottom of the
Part C (My Career Journey) helps learners synthesize page. These are designed to promote general
their self-exploration of interests, characteristics, and communication skills for employability through
work styles/values in Part A and their explorations contextualized practice with common situations that
of the health employment sectors in Part B. They occur in the employment sector.
learn about career ladders and lattices, the different • Role-play scenarios prompt students to work with
forms of education and training available including a partner to create and present new interactions
apprenticeships, the ways to approach a job search, based on the functional communication skills
how to use social media, and suggestions for creating featured in the lesson conversations. These
resumes. As they work through the Part C lessons, scenarios include communication between co-
students create a career lattice, a personal career workers, between employees and supervisors,
pathway, an education plan, an elevator speech that and between workers and patients/customers.
briefly describes their skills and goals, a resume, and a • Questions about workplace values and
LinkedIn profile. They develop their digital technology expectations get students talking about important
skills as they use online open career resources such employability concepts such as taking initiative,
as the careeronestop.org website and use search giving and responding to feedback, coping with
engines to explore job listings, check their reputations difficult situations, and other aspects of work
on the Internet, and find videos about preparing for attitudes and behavior.
job interviews. In a final set of lessons, students learn • Brainstorming activities encourage students to use
tips for successful job interviews, they create and lesson conversations as springboards to think of
rehearse answers to the most common interview other situations that may occur at the workplace.
questions, and they practice mock interviews in class.
• Personalization questions invite students to share
Structure of the Part B Units about their own experiences with situations
depicted in the conversations.
Each unit begins with eight numbered lessons and
sections. Three lessons focus on health employment • Critical thinking “What would you do . . .?“
sector vocabulary presented in a picture dictionary questions prompt students to think about
format, followed by three lessons that offer problem situations that are posed in some
communication practice in the sector’s workplace conversations and to share their solutions.
contexts, a unit inventory section with lists of key After the Skills Check, each unit provides the following
vocabulary and expressions, and a skills check section activities:
with review activities. • A Career Vocabulary cloze activity synthesizes
Lesson 1: Occupations and worksite locations the occupation names, worksite locations, job
Lesson 2: Job responsibilities responsibilities, and equipment, tools, and objects
Lesson 3: Equipment, tools, and objects that are introduced in the first three lessons of
Lesson 4: Workplace communication the unit. Students review key vocabulary as they
Lesson 5: On-the-job instructions complete a narrative description of the unit’s
Lesson 6: Job performance opening scenes.
Section 7: Unit inventory • A Career Research lesson offers a framework
Section 8: Skills check for students to research an occupation featured
At the bottom of pages in Lessons 1–3, there are in the unit. The positions are listed by job zone
vocabulary practice instructions and questions for so that students can choose an occupation that
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