Resumes, CVs and Email Cover Letters - Business English Worksheets and Activities
Here is a handy resume worksheet to help students learn basic resume conventions and practice writing a simple resume. Students begin by reading a job advertisement and resume. Students then identify and underline three details in the resume that are not relevant to the advertisement. Next, students decide whether six statements about resumes are true or false, correcting the false statements. After that, students read a job advertisement and write a resume for the job using their own ideas. Lastly, in small groups, students read each others' resumes and discuss whether they think each applicant would get the job or not.
This comprehensive CV worksheet helps students learn and practice language and vocabulary commonly used in a CV as well as how CVs are written and structured. First, students complete a CV with an appropriate heading for each section. Next, students read a personal profile and answer reading comprehension questions about it. Students then complete CV-related sentences with vocabulary from a box. Lastly, students write their own CV by following prompts and using the language from the worksheet and example CV as a guide.
In this free email cover letter activity, students identify and correct common grammar and spelling mistakes in a cover letter email. This activity provides practice in accuracy and a model for an email cover letter. Working alone, students find and correct six grammar or spelling mistakes in each paragraph of the cover letter email. Afterwards, elicit the answers from the class. Students score one point for each identified and corrected mistake. The student with the most points wins.
In this useful email cover letter worksheet, students learn and practice the key elements of writing an email cover letter. First, students read an email cover letter and complete collocations in bold with the words provided. Students then match sentence halves to create definitions for key email cover letter terms. Next, students complete example sentences from an email cover letter by underlining the correct words. After that, in pairs, students discuss six cover letter-related questions as a lead into the next exercise. Lastly, students think of a job they would like to apply for and create a first draft of an email cover letter by following prompts and using the example email cover letter and language used in the worksheet as a guide.
In this email cover letters worksheet, students learn phrases for writing internal promotion email cover letters and then practice them by writing the body of an email cover letter. First, students discuss two questions about email cover letters in pairs. Students then read a model internal promotion email cover letter and match functions to each part of the email. Next, students complete another email cover letter with other useful phrases. Lastly, students write the body of an internal promotion email cover letter using the information provided and phrases from the worksheet.
Here is an insightful email cover letter activity to help students review tenses and standard phrases in an email cover letter. First, students read the phrase on their card, decide where to put it in the email cover letter, and write it in the space provided. After that, take back the cards from the students. Students then stand up and go around the class telling each other the phrase they have written in their cover letter without showing their worksheets to each other. The other students decide where they think each phrase they hear should go in their letter and write it down in the space. This continues until all the students have completed the letter. Afterwards, check the correct answers as a class and review the tenses and standard phrases.
