MY GRANDPARENTS’ JOBS. Write a short paragraph about your grandparents’ jobs. What did they do in their jobs? Look at the examples. 1. My grandmother’s name is/was Suzy. She was a nurse. She helped doctors. She worked in a hospital with a lot of patients. My grandfather’s name was Elliot. He was a pilot. He worked in an airport. He flew planes. 2. My grandmother’s name is/was Penny. She was a cook. She cooked food. She worked in a restaurant. My grandfather’s name was Sam. He was a fireman. He worked in a fire station. He put out fires. 3. My grandfather’s name is/was Peter. He was a tailor. He made trousers, suits and shirts. My grandmother’s name was Wendy. She was a babysitter. She worked in houses. She looked after kids.
INTERESTING JOBS Write about a person with a job you find interesting. What is his / her name? What is the job? What does this person do? Look at the examples.
Lucy is a news reporter. She travels a lot and goes to different countries. She interviews people and writes articles for newspapers and magazines. She wants to make a TV programme about famous cities in the world because she loves big cities.
Beth is a pet-sitter in her summer holidays. She looks after pets while their owners are on holiday. She gives the animals food and takes the dogs for walks. She wants to be a vet when she’s older because she loves animals. She doesn’t want to work in an office. She wants to visit Africa next summer to see the wild animals.
Allan is a roller coaster designer. He works on a computer in an office in New York. He wants to visit a theme park in Spain because he’s designing a new roller coaster. He doesn’t want to try a different job because he loves roller coasters, especially when he rides on one to test it.
John Harrison is an ice-cream taster. In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and evaluates 60 ice-cream samples. He starts with vanilla and then tries stronger flavours like mint chocolate-chip. He lets the ice cream warm up because you get more flavour from warmer ice cream. The most popular flavour he has developed so far is cookies and cream.