Jobs

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the wordsVocabulary exercise
4. 4Check the wordsVocabulary
5. 5Words for jobsVocabulary exercise
6. 6True or false?Reading comprehension
7. 7Read and thinkReading comprehension
8. 8Listen: Kai, a cookListening comprehension
9. 9Jobs and placesVocabulary exercise
10. 10What do you see?Grammar exercise
11. 11Find anGrammar exercise
12. 12a or an?Grammar rule
13. 13a or an?Grammar exercise
14. 14Say it rightSpeaking practice
15. 15Career Day: my jobSpeaking practice
16. 16Let's talkDiscussion
17. 17Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: which job?Vocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: my family at workGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: Career DayDiscussion

Words

• job/dʒɑːb/

  the work you do to get money

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  doctor/ˈdɑːktər/

  a person who helps sick people get better

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  nurse/nɜːrs/

  a person who takes care of sick people, often in a hospital

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  teacher/ˈtiːtʃər/

  a person who teaches students at a school

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  cook/kʊk/

  a person who makes food, for example in a restaurant

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  firefighter/ˈfaɪərfaɪtər/

  a person who stops fires and helps people

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  police officer/pəˈliːs ˌɔːfɪsər/

  a person who works for the police

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  farmer/ˈfɑːrmər/

  a person with a farm: animals, fruit or vegetables

• engineer/ˌendʒɪˈnɪr/

  a person who plans and makes things like roads, bridges and machines

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  artist/ˈɑːrtɪst/

  a person who paints or draws pictures

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about work.

1. What is your job? Or are you a student?
2. What jobs are in your family?
3. What is your favorite job on TV or in the movies?

Grammar rule

a or an?

a and an mean one

a + a consonant sound (b, c, d, f…)	an + a vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u)
a nurse	an engineer
a teacher	an artist
a firefighter	an office worker
a difficult job	an interesting job
a great job	an easy job

It is the sound, not the letter: a uniform (u sounds like you), an hour (the h is silent).

Look at the next word: an engineer, but a good engineer.

With a job, use a or an: I'm a nurse. She's an artist. (not I'm nurse)

What do you do? = What is your job? — I'm a cook. / I'm an engineer. / I'm a student.