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and say where each person works. Compare jobs in the pictures have changed in the
your answers with a partner. Did you identify last decade? Name five jobs that are
all the professions and workplaces? popular today, but that did not exist 10
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 Vocabulary
1 Read the information on the website. Write the people’s names.

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1 Think Fast! Circle the
Overview Learn about the People and their Professions © min
professions in the text.
Visit There are many professions in the world today. People choose their future careers based on their
likes and dislikes and their strengths and weaknesses. Here are some examples of people who love
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• Hi. I’m Sheila, and I work as a pilot for a commercial • My name’s Richard, and I work at a hotel downtown. I
airline. I like traveling to different countries and meeting work as a receptionist at the front desk. I welcome guests
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people. My job is to fly passengers to different parts of and help them with their rooms. It’s a very busy job, but I 5. seeinrtpicot
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 3 Read and identify the professions.

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1. A moves people around the city and
works from 9 to 5.
2. A© flies passengers to different
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 Grammar
1 Read the chats and identify where Joe’s friends are. Write the correct letter in the boxes.

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 2 Read the chats again. Match the questions to the answers.
1. It’s 10:20. What are the girls doing? a. He’s helping his grandpa milk the cows.
2. It’s 10:23. What is Nicole’s mom doing? b. They’re taking a Pilates class.
3. It’s 10:25. What is Jerry doing? c. She’s baking cupcakes.

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2. They’re going home in / on the train.
3. It’s raining in / at San Francisco.
4. We’re going to the movies in / on a taxi.
5. I’m waiting at / on the supermarket.
6. She’s traveling to Bogotá at / on a plane.
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 Listening
1 Look at the ad of a radio program. What do you think the job of the woman is?
Where do you think she works?

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3 Listen to the interview again and answer the questions below.
1. What does Louise do before she starts to work?
2. Who does she work with before she creates prosthetics?
3. What tools does Louise use in her job?
4. What does Louise not like about her job?
5. Why is her job challenging?

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4 Listen again and mark (✓) the sentences that are true about Louise.
1. She works in a radio station.
2. She works on her own. G lossary
prosthetics: artificial
3. She creates prosthetics as one of her daily activities. body parts
4. She needs only sculpting tools to do her job. sketch: a simple and
quickly made drawing
5. She is designing a classic horror movie.
hectic: full of activity
6. She is currently taking a class to improve her skills. or very busy
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 Speaking
4
1 Listen to the interview on page 18 again. Number the questions as you hear them.
Is there anything you don’t like about your job?
Do you need any special tools to do your job?
Where do you work?

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4 With a partner, take turns interviewing each other. Follow the suggestions below.

Interviewee:
Interviewer:
• Use the information
in Activity 3 to
• Use the questions in Activity 1 to answer the questions. Do
conduct the interview. not tell which
job it is!
• Guess what your partner’s job is. • Confirm or correct you
r partner’s guess.

Be Strategic!
Remember that, in
Is there anything you Well, I usually start very
conversations, we use
don’t like about your job? early in the morning... gap fillers and pauses
(well, I mean, etc.).
Use them to think
before answering a
question or to keep
the conversation
going.

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 Reading
1 Look at the pictures and the title of the article. What do you think it is about?

Stra n g e
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there is a plate of grubs. Sharon
the TV show.
Majkowski, 26, is slowly eating
them. It’s not her lunch. This is her grubs are good, actually. Do you
job. Sharon is a stunt tester. “Sometimes they ask me to eat want one?”
When you watch a reality TV live animals,” she says. “I always Politely, I refuse. They look
show, you often see people do refuse because it’s cruel. I eat revolting. This one is clearly a job
challenges. For example, they anything if it’s dead. These cooked for the experts.

2 Read the article and answer the questions.

1. Where does Sharon work?

2. What does a stunt tester do?

G lossary
grub: a baby insect like
a worm
3. Is Sharon’s job easy? Why? stunt: a dangerous
action done by someone
in a film or TV show
4. Do you think Sharon’s job has more positive than negative aspects? Why? challenge: a difficult
action to test
someone’s ability
5. What is the writer’s attitude about Sharon’s job? How do you know? refuse: to say no to
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 Writing
1 Read the text below and answer the questions.
1. What kind of text is it?
2. Why do you think Sharon is writing this reply?
3. What do you think Janet wants to know about Sharon?

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TV studio, but I sometimes travel for work. I sometimes go to the jungle or the
desert to test challenges for our shows. That’s my favorite part of the job.
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In general, I love my job, but I must confess there are silly things I don’t like.
Sometimes I get up very early in the morning. I don’t enjoy that, but it’s part of the job.
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1. Closing. Use “Regards” (Best/Sincerely) and a comma. Then write your name.
2. Greeting. Use “Dear,” the person’s name and a comma.
3. Body of the message. Describe one idea per paragraph. Check your spelling and grammar!

3 Read the questions below. Number them in the order they are answered in the e-mail.

What do you not like? What do you like?

What are you doing now? What do you do?

4 Underline the correct option to complete the recommendations to write e-mails.

1. Write clear / wordy sentences.
2. Use / Do not use paragraphs to keep the email easy to understand.
3. Write / Do not write about irrelevant issues to keep your reader’s attention.
4. Use / Do not use capital letters to write whole words. In e-mails, writing with capital letters only is
considered impolite / polite.

5 Write a similar e-mail giving information about a job in your notebook. Follow the steps below.
1. Choose a job you like or that you find interesting.
2. Answer the questions in Activity 3 and organize the information in a logical sequence.
3. Follow the recommendations in Activity 4.
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 Review
1 Read and match.
1. A firefighter a. designs and builds machines.
2. A hairstylist b. welcomes and helps guests with their stays.
3. A pilot c. helps people in dangerous situations.
4. A receptionist d. moves people around a city.

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5. A transit operator e. flies passengers to different destinations.

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3 Look and write sentences. What are they doing?

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 4 Correct the sentences.
1. I sitting on the bus.
2. What are you do?
3. We not doing homework.
4. Are you have lunch at school today?

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5. Jim is no playing basketball.

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engineer
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pilot
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train ticket

receptionist

blow dryer computer

transit operator
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