work and education vocabulary
Natural English Intermediate
Your partner is a university career counsellor. Ask them as many questions as you can about the consequences of taking the different options below, including how your options will change depending on your marks in your finals (distinction, merit, first, two one, two two, third, scrape through, fail).
- A gap year
- A postgraduate qualification (A PhD or Masters)
- A PGCE (postgraduate certificate in education)
- A low level position in a big company in the nearest big city
- A graduate job in a smaller company closer to home
- Studying abroad
- Applying for a scholarship to study abroad
- Temporary office job
- Factory, warehouse or other manual work
- Setting up your own company
- Try to get a job through alumni association contacts
Change partners and ask the same questions to another career counsellor.
As a class, discuss how their answers are different, and whose advice is better.
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