Grade 10 Future Plans and Ambitions Vocabulary Worksheet

About This Resource

A three-page vocabulary worksheet for Grade 10 ESL students covering twelve key career and future-plans terms. Students match words to definitions, complete sentences, sort words into categories, and write their own sentences using the new vocabulary.

Overview

This worksheet builds a working vocabulary of twelve career and future-plans terms — ambition, career path, further education, vocational training, entrepreneur, scholarship, internship, promotion, qualification, work experience, goal, and apply for — through four different activity types. Students begin with a matching exercise linking each word to its definition, move to a fill-in-the-blank exercise using the words in context, sort the words into three meaningful categories (Further Study, Work and Career, Personal Drive), and finish with a short personal-writing task using three of the words in their own sentences.

Resource Details

Subject: ESL
Topic: Future Plans and Ambitions
Category: Worksheets
File Type: PDF
File Size: 52.5 KB
Published: 06 Sep 2026
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Classroom Use

Turn the completed Your Turn sentences into a short "guess the word" game: collect a few anonymous sentences (with the vocabulary word blanked out) and read them aloud for the class to guess which word is missing.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Allow students to use the word bank as a reference throughout all four sections rather than only for matching, and reduce the Your Turn task to one sentence instead of three.
ON-LEVEL: Students complete all four sections as designed.
CHALLENGE: Ask students to write a fourth Your Turn sentence that uses two vocabulary words in the same sentence, or to write a short definition of a word in their own words rather than copying the worksheet's definition.

Answer Key & Assessment

Collect the completed worksheet and check the matching and fill-in-the-blank sections against the answer key. Review the Your Turn sentences for correct and natural use of the target vocabulary rather than grading them as right or wrong.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to define twelve career and future-plans vocabulary words.
Students will be able to use the target vocabulary correctly in a sentence.
Students will be able to classify career and future-plans vocabulary into logical categories.
Students will be able to write original sentences using target vocabulary.

Teacher Tips

For the Sort the Words activity, ask one or two pairs to justify a borderline choice (for example, whether "vocational training" belongs with Work and Career or Personal Drive) out loud to the class — it turns a simple sorting task into a genuine vocabulary discussion.

What's Included

3-page student worksheet
Editable DOCX version
Print-ready PDF version
Answer key (2 pages)

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