Vocabulary
Before listening ask students to look through vocabulary. Ask them to make sentences or situations with the given words. You will see if they understood the meaning of these words.
Before listening
1) What criteria are you thinking about when you are choosing a job? (hours, variety of work, interesting work, meeting people, travel, holidays, salary, career, other _______). Ask students to make a list of these criteria.
2) Which three of them are the most important criteria for you? Put a number next to the three most important criteria (in order of importance) and discuss your choice with a partner.
3) According to these criteria, discuss which job you would most like, and which job you would not like.
The discussion could include comparisons, and use of modal verbs to describe what you have to do/need to do, etc.
Let the students listen to the tape for the first time and do the first exercise while listening:
| JOB? | Key words | |
| Extract one:
Ivy |
Cleaner in
a college |
Sweep, wash the floor, empty bins, do rooms, pick up cigarette ends, dirty tissues |
| Extract two: Heather | Sales representative | Work from home, phone calls, go out and see them all over the place |
| Extract three: Stephen | policeman | Commence patrol, abandoned motor vehicles, crime/traffic regulation, area community PC |
II) Students listen to the tape for the second time making notes for a job description for every person in the tape.
a) Hours: 8 am - 2 pm
Duties: sweep and wash floor, check toilets, empty bins, do rooms, help in canteen, sweep and wash stairs.
Advantages of job: free and easy, friendly students.
Disadvantages: routine hours work, picking up cigarette ends and dirty tissues.
b) Hours: Mon. - Fri. irregular hours.
Duties: receiving phone calls, visiting people.
Personality necessary for job: outgoing, cheerful, smiling.
Advantages of job: car with job (all expenses), flexible hours.
Disadvantages: awkward clients, needing always to be lively, sometimes long hours.
c) 1 - into the office, 2 - eight, 3 - usual, 4 - motor vehicles, 5 - shopping areas, 6 - crossroads, 7 - problems, 8 - warning.
Writing task might be done at home and then worked out in the classroom.
Unit 3. THE TEACHER
Before listening
1) Students exchange their opinions. That makes them think about the topic.
Part A. General listening
2) All the sentences are false.
Part B. Detailed listening
Let students read through the questions first and see if they can answer any of them. Then play the tape. Let students compare their answers with partners. If they have not been able to complete the task successfully you can play the tape again.
3)
a/ The interviewer has read an article saying that the mail teachers in primary schools have better chances of promotion than the women.
b/ The Lower school is for children between the ages of three
and seven.
c) Men get promoted because boys are brought up to be more ambitious than girls. Mary wants to stay as a classroom teacher.
Part C. Extension activities
The students might need dictionaries to find out unknown words.
4)
a) exchange of opinions;
b) Peter Thorpe supports the traditional female role, and thinks that children should be taught to accept this. His local authority believes the opposite.