Match pictures A—D with these jobs.
Unit 1.2: what was your first job?
a journalist
an office manager
a cook
a shop assistant
Watch a video and write down the names of the jobs
Unit 1.2: what was your first job?
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solder
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firefighter
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electrician
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border guard
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Criminal investigators
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lawyer
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Police students
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Traffic policewoman
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Mobile police
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Local police
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Environment police
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High technology police
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Little police
singers
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cleaners
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administrators
Read the newspaper interview with Rob.
He is a shop assistant.
He is a journalist.
He is a cook.
He is a marketing assistant.
Read the interview again. Put Rob`s jobs in the correct order, from the past to now.
a. He was an office manager.
b. He was a shop assistant.
c. He`s a journalist.
d. He was a cook.
e. He was a marketing assistant.
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Read the newspaper interview with Rob.
His job is really difficult.
His job is different every day.
His job is boring and badly paid.
His job is good and the same every day.
Talking about jobs
Listen to check (1.12)
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When I……………………. at university in 2007, I ……………………. an assistant in a clothes shop. The shop 3 ……………………. near the university so a lot of our customers ……………………. students. One of the other assistants 5 ……………………. a student too, but the others ……………………. . The job was OK, but it 7 ……………………. well paid. It was a good first job, but it 8 ……………………. a job for life for me.
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