Collocations: Career & Life Goals

What is this lesson about? This career goals collocations ESL lesson plan helps B1–B2 learners build the vocabulary they need to talk about ambition, growth, and achieving personal and professional goals. Students practise real-world collocations such as follow your passion, stay focused, overcome setbacks, and achieve success through interactive activities.

What language will students learn? Learners study eight essential collocations:

• Work towards a goal

• Pursue a career

• Follow your passion

• Aim high

• Identify your strengths

• Stay focused

• Overcome setbacks

• Achieve success
  

How do students practise? The lesson develops fluency and accuracy through:

• Warm-up discussion questions about ambition and motivation.

• Definition and collocation matching to clarify meanings.

• Sentence gap-fills and transformations for contextual fluency.

• Tense challenge to reinforce grammar while practising collocations.

• Speaking tasks to personalise collocations through career and life experiences.
  

Why is this lesson useful? By the end, learners can:

• Use collocations to describe career plans and personal goals.

• Express ambition, perseverance, and motivation with confidence.

• Connect grammar, vocabulary, and speaking in one integrated lesson.

• Reflect on real-life goals while building fluency.
  

Who is it for? This lesson is designed for intermediate adult learners (B1–B2). It’s particularly suited for learners preparing for workplace English, career development, or wellbeing-focused ESL contexts.