Preparing young people for working life

C1 Advanced · Speaking Collaborative · Cambridge Ready original exercise

Talk with your partner for about two minutes about the question in the middle, using the ideas around it. Then you have about a minute to reach a decision together.

For the next two minutes or so, I'd like you to talk together. Here are some experiences that young people might have before they start work and a question about them. Take a moment to read them through.

Preparing young people for working life

doing a part-time job

volunteering

work experience placements

playing in a sports team

learning to manage money

In the next minute or so, try to agree on which experience would be most valuable for someone about to leave school.

Now, discuss with each other how useful these experiences might be in preparing young people for working life.

How useful might these experiences be in preparing young people for working life?

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