Task 1. Job Game.
Stand In small circles. The person, who starts, names a job and the workplace for that job, e.g. A pilot-plane, then addresses or points to another person to take a turn. If you can’t tell this immediately, you are out! Do it as quickly as possible.
Task 2. Guess what jobs are defined here?
1) Someone who teaches at University, but is not a professor ….
2) Someone who plans the building of roads, bridges, machines etc…
3) Someone who is a doctor for animals…
4) Someone who fits water pipes, bathrooms…
5) Someone who looks after your teeth…
6) Someone who controls the financial situation of individuals and companies…
7) Someone who fits and services electrical things…
8) Someone who wears expensive clothes on the covers of magazines…
9) Someone who has got a lot of gardens and fields, domestic animals in the rural area…
10) Someone who works in a bank and is busy counting money…
11) Someone who spends much time in a car teaching and preparing people to pass the exam…
12) Someone who works in a plane looking after the passengers while they are flying…
13) Someone who helps people to buy and sell houses and flats…
14) Someone who helps people to set up disputes or represents their interests in the court…
15) Someone who saves people from drowning…
Task 3.Find a partner.Make a list of verbs describing “What do people do at these jobs”.
e.g. Doctors - treat or examine patients, prescribe medicines etc…
| Bricklayer - | Nurse - |
| Surgeon - | Astronaut - |
| Broker | Politician - |
| Engineer - | Freelancer- |
| Chef - | Speech Therapist- |
| Diver- | Usher- |
| Chief Executive - | Financial Analyst - |
| Private Detective - | Sales Agent - |
| Hairdresser - | Street vendor- |
| Sole Proprietor/ Private Entrepreneur- | Web Developer / Web Designer- |
Task 4.What do your parents and relatives do for living? Have a discussion with your partner about your family members’ occupations and their job description.
Task 5. Complete the following text with suitable words from the given table.
| armed | skilled | legal |
| emergency | medical | manual |
Jobs where you work with your hands and don’t need any ability or training are called 1) ____________________ jobs. If you work with your hands but the job requires a lot of ability and training, we call it a 2) ________________ job. We refer to doctors and lawyers as professional people: doctors work in the 3) ________________ profession, lawyers are involved in 4) ______________ profession. The people who defend the country, such as soldiers and sailors are part of the 5) _____________ forces. Firefighters and ambulance drivers are part of 6) ___________ services.
Task 6.Work in 2 groups. Group A, brainstorm manual jobs (based on vocational training). Group B, brainstorm professional / intellectual jobs (based on academic training). Find a partner from the opposite group and compare your lists. If there are any jobs on both lists, explain why you think they should stay on yours instead of your partner’s.
e.g. A manager is more an intellectual job because this person should be aware of psychology basics
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Task 7.Create the mind map devoted to the issue “What does the job satisfaction mean and which aspects does it include”?