For teachers - Working abroad

Working Abroad uses the experiences of real people, both experts and non-experts, to explore some of the cultural and linguistic challenges of living and working in a foreign country - and offers a lot of practical hints and tips to help those who are thinking of taking the plunge. We've created a bank of downloadable classroom worksheets to help you and your students get the most out of the series. We've also written a list of quick and easy teaching ideas and activities that require little or no preparation, - most of them can be used with almost any part of the series:
Teaching ideas (45 K)
We hope you find these worksheets useful - do please send your comments and feedback to us at teachingenglish@bbc.co.uk.

Listening

These worksheets have been written to accompany specific programmes. Each of them focuses on one or more listening skills.
Worksheets:
Programme 2 (3.8 MB mp3)
Prediction & comprehension - dealing with different voices
Worksheet (41 K)

Programme 3 (3.8 MB mp3)
Comprehension - multiple choice questions
Worksheet (47 K)

Programme 4 (3.8 MB mp3)
Comprehension - true/false questions and follow up discussion questions
Worksheet (37 K)

Programme 5 (3.7 MB mp3)
Comprehension - true/false questions and follow up discussion questions
Worksheet (65 K)

Programme 6 (3.7 MB mp3)
Text organisation - ordering sentences. Follow up activity: Stereotypes discussion
Worksheet (40 K)

Reading

These worksheets are based around the reading texts related to the different people featured in Working Abroad. Each worksheet focuses on a specific reading sub-skill.
Worksheets:
Federico: the Person
Comprehension through comparisonOrdering events
Worksheet (35 K)

Andre - the Person
Comprehension questions
Worksheet (43 K)

Maralde - the Experience
Comprehension questionsComprehension through comparison
Worksheet (36 K)

Adam - the Person, the Job and the Experience
AnagramsSentence insertion
Worksheet (48 K)

Chris - the Experience
PredictionComprehension - true/false questionsFollow up speaking activity
Worksheet (44 K)

Writing

These worksheets provide guidance and practice on writing different types of text. The theme of each writing task centres on an aspect of working abroad.
Worksheets:
Worksheet 1 Proofreading
Worksheet (34 K)

Worksheet 2 Email
Worksheet (40 K)

Worksheet 3 Formal and informal tone
Worksheet (36 K)

Worksheet 4 A guide to your culture
Worksheet (39 K)

Speaking

These speaking activities provide consolidation and practice of the vocabulary, structures and concepts featured in the series.
Worksheets:
Worksheet 1
Roleplay: job interview
Worksheet (33 K)

Worksheet 2
Ranking discussion: what's important when you're working abroad?
Worksheet (28 K)

Worksheet 3
Pronunciation: minimal pairs
Worksheet (29 K)

Worksheet 4
Pronunciation: sentence stress
Worksheet (33 K)

Worksheet 5
Mingling activity: find someone who...
Worksheet (31 K)

Worksheet 6
Clarifying meaning
Worksheet (34 K)

Grammar

These worksheets provide explanation and practice of some of the structures which are found in these programmes.
Worksheets:
Worksheet 1
Conditionals
Worksheet (38 K)

Worksheet 2
Articles
Worksheet (34 K)

Worksheet 3
Verb forms
Worksheet (34 K)

Worksheet 4
Error correction
Worksheet (42 K)

Vocabulary

Use these worksheets to recycle and practise key vocabulary from the series.
Worksheets:
Worksheet 1
Crossword
Worksheet (38 K)

Worksheet 2
Crossword (easy version)
Worksheet (38 K)

Worksheet 3
People
Worksheet (57 K)

Worksheet 4
Adjectives
Worksheet (37 K)

Worksheet 5
Idiomatic expressions
Worksheet (34 K)