We resumed classes after a very nice holiday. Some of the students in the group had been away for the holiday. Students started the lesson asking each other:
Did you go anywhere for the holiday?
And they answered: Yes, I went to… ( Merida,Toledo, my village, and so on) or No, I didn’t.
We continued learning about jobs. First, students had 2 minutes to make a list of all the jobs they remembered. One student remembered 17 jobs. Next we were talking about jobs. First, we practiced the question: What do you do? to find out about somebody’s job. The second question we learned was: What does a (secretary, mechanic, etc.) do?
Students picked a job and and had to find their job description. Then everybody had to interview everybody else and write the answers in a chart.
We learned the following verbs to describe jobs: cook, serve, repair, teach, drive, help, work, sell.
Students held conversations like this:
What do you do?
I am a chef.
What does a chef do?
A chef cooks meals ( or food) in a restaurant.
The verb tense we are using is the Present Simple. When we ask questions we need to use the auxiliary do or when the subject is a 3rd singular person: he, she or it,we use does. When we answer the question, if the the subject is a 3rd singular person: he, she or it, we add an -s or sometimes -es.
Students did an excellent job is this activity.
Later we were listening to a recording of 6 people talking about their jobs. Students had to identify the job and say what words had helped them understand it was the job they had chosen from the given choices.
Finally we did the first reading for the play students will perform at the end of the term. I am not going to say what play it is because it is a secret for everybody else.
Homework
Watch and listen to the video:
Then, choose 4 jobs and explain what they do. Example:
The tailor makes trousers, suits and shirts.
