VOCABULARY
3 C AND SKILLS
Vocabulary word building: noun endings Skills Listening: a radio interview; Reading: a magazine article
What a job!
Q U IC K R EV IEW P re s e n t S im p le a n d P re s e n t C o n tin u o u s
W rite th e n a m e s o f th re e p e o p le y o u k n o w w ell. W o rk
in p a irs . A s k y o u r p a rtn e r w h a t th e s e p e o p le u s u a lly d o in th e ir fre e tim e a n d w h a t th e y a re d o in g a t th e m o m e n t.
Speaking and Listening a Think of three jobs that you would like to do and three jobs you would hate to do. b Work in groups and compare your ideas. Are
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HELP WITH VOCABULARY W o rd b u ild in g : n o u n e n d in g s a Look at this table. How do we make the nouns?
Complete the ending column.
there any jobs you would all like to do?
verb
noun
ending
a E S f lh 3 4 Listen to Paul Owen talking about
collect
collection
-ion
his new book Is That a Real Job?. Put pictures A -C in the order he talks about them.
act
actor
assist
assistant
b Listen again. Tick the true sentences. Correct the false ones. Which job do you think is the most unusual?
clean
cleaner
improve
improvement
test
test
1 2 3 4 5 6
Paul thinks testing furniture is an interesting job. Furniture testers have to answer a lot of questions. A company in New York makes 4.5 million fortune cookies a year. Fortune cookies started in China in the 19th century. Golf ball divers sell the golf balls they find. In the UK, golfers lose about one million balls a year.
b Which endings do we use for people’s jobs?
TIP • We can also make job words by adding -ist or -ian to nouns: art -* artist, music musician. c
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a Work in pairs. Write all the jobs you know with the
HELP WITH LISTENING
endings -or, -ant, - er; -is t and -ian.
L in k in g (1): c o n s o n a n t-v o w e l
b Compare lists with another pair.
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We usually link words that end in a consonant sound with words that start with a vowel sound.
a U f l h 34 Listen to the beginning of the interview
again. Notice the consonant-vowel linking at the ends and beginnings of words. Paul, your new b o o kjs_a collection_of_articles jib o u t people with strange jobs. So we’re not talking_aboutjictors, sales_assistantsjir cleaners.
| j | a Look at these words. Are they nouns (N), verbs (V) or both (NV)? • • • decision N examine V interview NV • • • interviewer cook decide examination argument visit discussion employ information visitor guitarist discuss argue politician examiner inform employment
b Look at Audio Script U f l h 34 p155. Listen to the
interview again and notice the linking.
b Work in pairs. Compare answers. Check any
new words with your teacher.
