Lesson 10 Jobs
There are three tasks in this lesson. Write the answers down in your notebook.
Task 1,2,3
Task 1
- Have a look at these words. Do you know the meaning of the words?
Task 1b: Have a look at the pictures. What do you see?
Task 1C: Answer the questions
- What jobs are shown in the pictures?
- Which of the jobs would you like / not like to do?
- What are you dream jobs?
Task 2 a:: Vocab
Match the pictures and the words
Task 2C:
Listen. What is the correct picture?
Task 3: “reading”
The Best Job in the World
34-year-old Briton Ben Southall has just fi nished his six months doing the ‘Best Job in the World’. Southall was the winner of the Queensland Tourist Board’s ‘Best Job in the World’ internet competition; the job was to live on Hamilton Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and write a blog about it. The job included a very high salary (A$150,000) and a beautiful house with ocean views. Nearly 35,000 people took part in the competition.
Southall says that the job was harder than he thought it would be. Instead of swimming and sitting on the beach, he was very busy: “I needed to work 18 to 19 hours every day. I visited places during the day and stayed up late at night blogging and uploading pictures; it was very time consuming,” he says. He posted more than 75,000 words on blogs, uploaded more than 2,000 photos, and made many video diaries. Ben also gave more than 250 media interviews.
Although he was busy, Ben Southall says that he really enjoyed his job. During his time on the island, he learnt how to sail and kayak. His only bad moment was when he was stung by a venomous jellyfi sh. He had a very high fever and felt terrible. “For six hours I was pretty bad,” he says.
Ben has done his job so well, and attracted so much publicity that the Queensland Tourism Board has given him a new job. He is now a global ambassador for Queensland. This means he has to travel around the world promoting the state.
For questions 1–3 please answer in complete sentences.
- Where has Ben Southall been living for the past six months?
- How many people applied for the job?
- What was the worst thing that happened to Ben?
- Ben Southall spent a lot of his time relaxing on the beach. True /False
- His new job involves a lot of travel. True/ False
- How did Ben get the job on Hamilton Island. A) Through a friend. b) He won an internet competition. c)He passed a test.
- What did he learn how to do during the six months? a)Avoid jellyfish. b)Sail and kayak. c) Blog and make video diaries.
- Who does Ben work for now? a) Himself. b)The Queensland Tourism Board. c) A global ambassador.
- Find the word in the passage which means the OPPOSITE of: loser (paragraph 1)
- Find the word in the passage which means the SAME as: worldwide (paragraph 4)
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