To begin the class students asked each other the questions: What time did you get up? What time did you have lunch?

Remember: we use the word time to say when exactly something is happening. We use the word weather when we are saying things like It is sunny and warm.

Students had done their homework but they had not read the instructions carefully. Next time, read the instructions. 

We started the main part of the lesson studying some verbs or actions related to jobs. The teacher wrote these actions on the board
Drive, fly, serve, catch fish, sell, put out, repair or fix, protect, tell, shave, write about news, make furniture, repair the water pipes, grow vegetables, trains a team, examines your eyes, work with numbers, heals animals.

Students had to find jobs to match these actions and then make sentences like: A plumber repairs the water pipes.

Next, students had to ask questions like this: Who grows vegetables? And answer: A farmer. They wrote their questions first and then they asked each other.

We practiced qualities and skills people need in order to do a particular job.

Skills: A barber can shave men´s beards. 

Qualities: A teacher must be patient and gentle.

Last we played a board game. Students had to answer questions about jobs, like Who answers the phone and types letters?

Don´t forget about next week: You must cook something small, like a cake, an omelette or a canape and explain how you  made it. If I remmeber correctly, when I asked you about your skills, some of you said you can cook. This is your chance to prove it.

Homework

Answer the questions:

What does a doctor do?
What does a firefighter do?
What does a car mechanic do?
What does a waitress do?
What does a taxi driver do?
What does a sales person do?
What does a football player do?
What does a reporter do?
What does an architect do?
What does your father do?

Isn´t that easy?

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Yesterday we continued learning about jobs. But at the beginnning of the lesson students had to say their email address. Now they know how to tell their address and their email address.

Address: 5 Alamo Street, Colorado Springs.

Email address: jenniferbr@gmail.com

But in English to say @ we use the word at, and to say . we use the word dot.  

They also answered the question What did you have for lunch today?  Students are already used to this question. Remember we answered in the past simple: I had chicken and fries.

After correcting the homework we reviewed the names of many jobs, we saw a video called What does a doctor do? and then the teacher said something about a job and students had to say what job she was talking about. Here are the sentences.

He/she flies a plane

He/she  cook meals.

He/she serves meals on tables.

He/she designs buildings.

He/she makes furniture.

He/she catches fish.

He/she sells things.

He puts out fires.

He/she repair cars.

He/She makes people better.

He makes wall and ceilings of houses.

He/she drives children to school.

He cuts men´s hair and shaves men´s beards.

He/she protects people and buildings.

He/she tells the news to the public on radio or TV.

We were reading about the qualities and skills people need to do a certain job. Some of the adjectives used were strong, brave, friendly, helpful, quick, careful, patient, gentle.

When we talked about skills we say things like I can balance very easily, I can use a computer, I can cook very well, I can understand how animals feel, I can draw plans for houses, I can explain things very well, etc.

Finally we played a very exciting board game. Students practiced the Pr. Simple and the Pr. Continuous. Nobody wan the game because they kept trading places.

Homework

1. Choose 3 jobs. Ask the following questions about them.

What does a __________ do?

Where does a __________ work?

What can a __________ do?

What qualities has a __________ got?

And answer the questions, of course.

2. Write what skills you think ( 1 for each)  the following workers have:

A barber.

A nurse. 

A bus driver. 

A dentist.

Example: A psychologist can understand her patients and help them with their problems.

New month, new unit. This one is about jobs. By the way, everybody did his/her homework last week and it was well done.
In our first lesson of March we were first learning/reviewing the names of the most common jobs ( and some that were not so common): chef, waiter, waitress, cashier, secretary, accountant, lawyer, architect, business person (business man or business woman), doctor, dentist, nurse, teacher, sales person, construction worker, carpenter, plumber, artist, musician, dancer, pharmacist, security guard, firefighter, newscaster, reporter, weather person, coach, bus driver, taxi driver, truck driver, etc.

To talk about jobs  we studied and practiced the following questions:

What does he/she do? She is a nurse. Notice the article a.  The answer could be: He is an accountant. Now the article is an, because the word accountant starts with a vowel. But you must always remember to use the article when you are talking about somebody's job.

Where does a waiter work? In a supermarket.

Who works in a hospital? A doctor.

In order to study the questions above we listened to a recording and practiced asking each other about different jobs.

Homework
Watch the video and answered the questions:

1.Where do judges and lawyers work? (Notice judges and lawyers are plural words, so we don't use the article)
2. Where does a lifeguard work?
3. Where does an actor work?
4. What does a car mechanic do?
5  What does a pilot do?
6. What does a barber do?

Enjoy yourself!