3G
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Unusual jobs
Label the jobs in the pictures, using the words below.
clown croupier greeting card writer IMAX screen cleaner
paparazzo pet psychologist stunt person tea taster
water-slide tester zoo dentist
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B
Discuss these questions.
1 Which job do you think is the best? Why?
2 Which job do you think is the worst? Why?
3 Choose three of the jobs. What do these people do and what qualities are needed
to do the jobs?
C
Work in a group of three. You are going to write an advert for one of the jobs in A.
Plan your advert, using the headings below to help you.
Job title
Place of work
Duties
Qualities needed
Hours of work
Salary
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3G
Unusual jobs
Aims To give students the opportunity to work in a group to
produce a job advert. To extend vocabulary related to jobs.
Time 15 minutes + extra time for the adverts to be written
and collated
Materials 1 handout for each group of three students;
students need access to computers to produce their advert
• Divide the class into groups of three, give each group a copy
of the handout and ask them to do task A. Check answers,
ensuring they can pronounce the jobs correctly.
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greeting card writer
clown
pet psychologist
water-slide tester
tea taster
6paparazzo
7 stunt person
8croupier
9 zoo dentist
10 IMAX screen cleaner
• In task B, students should discuss the questions in their
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group. Encourage them to use a range of expressions for
giving opinion (Lesson C) and a variety of vocabulary to talk
about qualities (Lesson F). Get feedback.
For task C, each group needs to select / be given a different
job from A to write an advert for. Give students time to plan
the content of their advert and make notes on the handout.
Students then write their advert, using a word processing
application, such as Microsoft Word.
When students have finished, get a couple of volunteers
to collate all the adverts onto one A4 page. A copy of this
should then be printed out for each group. If computers are
not available, the adverts can be hand-written, stuck onto
one page and photocopied.
Tell students to read all the adverts and discuss in their group
which job they would apply for and why.
As an extension task, students could select one of the adverts
and write a letter of application.
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