- Show the children five or six pictures of different jobs. Try to include some of the jobs on the worksheet. Go through the jobs with the class and encourage them to repeat the words. Put the pictures up on the board and go through the words again. Then remove one of the pictures from the board. Point at the pictures one by one and get the children to say the words, including the missing job. Follow the same procedure with the rest of the pictures. In the end there will be no pictures left on the board. How many children can remember all the jobs?
Completing People and the economy: Jobs Worksheet 1
- Write the jobs in Activity 1 on the board and see how many the children know. Use simple explanations in L1 or L2 to explain the different jobs. Talk about where they work (use the language in Activity 2), eg Fishermen work on boats at sea. They catch fish. Textile workers work in textile factories. They make clothes.
- Ask the children to match the words to the pictures and write the words.
Answers: 1-farmer; 2-teacher; 3-textile worker; 4-fisherman; 5-car worker;6-doctor
Mime one of the jobs. Encourage the children to guess what it is. Invite some children to mime a job for the class to guess. The children can then continue in small groups.
- Go through the jobs in Activity 1 and elicit the places where the people work. Do an example about you first: I am a teacher. I work in a school. Continue with the other jobs: What about the farmer? Where does the farmer work? On a farm. Farmer, farm. Where does the doctor work? In a hospital. Doctor, hospital. etc.
- Ask the children to read the places and match them to the jobs in Activity 1 by writing the correct number under each one.
- The children compare their answers in pairs or small groups.
- Check the answers with the whole class.
Answers: a-6; b-3; c-1; d-5; e-2; f-4
Say a job and encourage the children to say where they work, eg Teacher: Class, Doctor: In a hospital. Teacher: Class, Car worker: In a car factory. The children can then continue in small groups.
- Write two columns on the board and label them Who and Where. Point to yourself and say I’m a teacher – I work in a school. Write doctor and car worker on the board and ask the children where they work. Follow the same procedure for the other jobs.
- Elicit complete sentences from the children, eg A teacher works in a school. A doctor works in a hospital. A car worker works in a car factory.
- Ask the children to write the sentences in Activity 3.
Answers: 1. The farmer works on a farm. 2. The teacher works in a school. 3.The textile worker works in a textile factory. 4. The fisherman works on a boat.5. The car worker works in a car factory. 6. The doctor works in a hospital.
1 Say a job and encourage the children to make a complete sentence about where the person works, eg T: Doctor; Class: The doctor works in a hospital. T: car worker, Class: The car worker works in a car factory. The children continue in small groups. 2 The children choose a job they’d like to do in the future and draw a picture in their notebook. They write one sentence about their job.