Unit seven Choosing a profession

Look at the pictures and write the job titles in the space.

cooks in a sells fruit and repairs cars looks after children

restaurant vegetables

 

makes furniture answers the phone plays roles in a writes for a newspaper

out of wood movie

journalist greengrocer mechanic actor secretary chef carpenter babysitter

1. Write sentences as shown in the example using the words above.

A journalist is someone who writes for a newspaper.

Vocabulary: job titles

Remember! Job titles in English are often formed from verbs. He paints. He is a painter. He drives a taxi. He is a taxi driver. I teach in a pre-school. I am a pre-school teacher.

Read the job descriptions below and write the job title.

e.g.: He designs clothes. He is a designer.

Job description	Job title
He owns a business.	He is a business owner.
He gardens.
She manages a restaurant.
She photographs people.
He operates the phones.
She supervises the office.
He prints newspapers.
She inspects buildings for safety.
She sings.

Which of these jobs would/wouldn’t you like to do? In pairs, decide on the top three and the bottom three. Tell the class the reasons of your choice.

Reading

What is the most important thing for you when you do a particular job? Choose the working environment you like most.

Work indoors	Work outdoors
Work with people	Work with information
Travel	Work in office
Work with hands	Work with mind
Work by myself	Work in groups
Work in busy places	Work in quiet places
Make things	Sell things
Wear a uniform	Wear street clothing
Work 12 months a year	Work seasonally

Read the text below and choose correct definitions for the underlined words and phrases.

request for admission a person who raises money for charity a worker who is hired to perform a job a person hired to take care of something

The Best Job in the World

It's probably the best job in the world. The Australian tourism bureau has finally selected somebody to live on an island and write about life.

The new employee will live in a fantastic house on a paradise island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef for six months and get paid $110,000 to do it. The only requirement is to write a weekly blog. That's right, weekly, not even daily.

Within the first 48 hours of the contest, the tourism group received more than 7,500 online applications. In the end, 34,000 people applied. Each made a 60-second video resume. They were told to be creative and they were creative.

Sixteen finalists flew to Australia for the final selection. The job requirements are quite simple: the ability to speak English and swim. Anthony Hayes from Tourism Queensland said the idea had helped to attract millions of dollars into the industry.

The tourism bureau announced the winner: Ben Southall, a 34-year-old British. As caretaker, Southall will live at Blue Pearl, "a beautiful three-bedroom home on Hamilton Island with beautiful views of the Whitsunday Islands, modern facilities and furniture."

Southall once worked as a tour guide in Africa, but most recently he has worked as a charity fundraiser. In his application video, he expressed a love for adventure, and presented photographs of himself riding an ostrich, running a marathon, scuba diving and kissing a giraffe.

(ABC News by Nick Watt, May 6, 2009)