Tell Me About a Time… – Job Interview

Speaking cards with behavioural job interview questions for teachers of adult B1-C1 learners and Business English students. The student answers real interview questions with real stories from their working life. The teacher plays the interviewer and stops the student in the middle of the story with a follow-up question, just like a real interviewer does.

• Story Language Cards (B1-B2) – 12 cards: expressions for telling a clear interview story in six steps: start, scene, task, action, result and looking back (One example that comes to mind is…, My job was to…, The first thing I did was…, As a result,…, Looking back, I would have…). Each card has a TRY IT task with the teacher.
• Tell Me About a Time… (B1-B2) – 16 interview cards: too much work and not enough time, a mistake, an unhappy customer, learning something fast, negative feedback, saying no at work. Each card has the interviewer’s question and an out-of-role discussion question.
• Tell Me About a Time… (B2-C1) – 16 interview cards: disagreeing with your manager, a project that failed, influence without authority, decisions with missing information, bad news for a client, an unpopular decision, rebuilding trust.
• Your Interview (B1-C1) – 10 real-life cards: the student’s last interview, a bank of their best stories, a CV skill they have to prove, the question they dread, a replay of a bad answer, a swap where the student becomes the interviewer, and questions to ask at the end of an interview.
• Teacher Probe Cards (B1-B2 and B2-C1) – 32 cards: one card for every interview question, with the moment to interrupt, the follow-up question, a second question to push further and what a strong answer includes.