3. English: Review interview exercises

Keystage: KS4

Subject: English

Resource type: Lesson

Skills: Teamwork

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In-Tray Exercise: In this activity, students will become Trainee Accountants applying for a job as at Hawk UK, a professional services firm. As part of the recruitment process, you attend an assessment centre and have been tasked with reviewing and summarising the proposal from Gravenstoke Museum with a group of other candidates.

Career Spotlight

Trainee Accountant

Skills Builder Links

Teamwork step 6
I contribute to group decision making.

Curriculum Table

England: The national curriculum (England)Reading
Pupils should be taught to understand and critically evaluate texts through reading in different ways for different purposes, summarising and synthesising ideas and information, and evaluating their usefulness for particular purposes.
Scotland: SQA National 5 EnglishCritical reading
Summarising: candidates show understanding of the writer’s ideas, narrative events or characterisation through summarising/explaining using their own words.
Wales: WJEC GCSE in English language specificationReading skills
Demonstrate independence in synthesising and summarising information effectively from a range of texts.

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