Look at the job categories. Add two more jobs to each

1.

Look at the job categories. Add two more jobs to each.
An
Aambulance
Acartoonist
CEO
An
electrician
typist
An
AAaccountant
director
driver
midwife
AA
shopkeeper
A website
A
chairman
A
A
builder
A
soldier
A photographer
TV
presenter
An
optician
Areceptionist
surveyor
designer

2.

Look at the jobs in Ex. 1 again. Find at least two jobs that the
following people couldn’t do.
work
in
thea
“I’m
not
good to
at
working
“I
get
can’t
don’t
seasick
stand
want
being
easily.”
go
to
behind
Jane.
the
sight
of
working
work
for
others.”
evenings
or Pat.
at weekends.”
with
my
hands.”
Pete.
desk.”
university.”
Tony.
blood.”
Sue.
shifts.”
John.
Bob.
Mary.
A naval
officer
secretary
AA
gardener
AA
doctor
fire
AA pilot
vet
fighter
A bank
clerk
A managing
A fisherman
AA
Acarpenter
lawyer
surgeon
A
nurse
secretary
director

3.

Find at least one type of job which …
is
risky.
…
outdoors/indoors.
……can
asks
involves
somebody
is
starts
pays
requires
you
9be
full-time.
can
to
for
a done
good
early
5.do
ahighly-qualified
that
shift
lot
can
as
salary.
inof
part
you
do
work.
the
travelling.
responsibility.
partwear
of
morning.
a team.
a
time.
uniform.
personnel.
A managing
A
AAA
fire
A
fisherman
carpenter
secretary
A
doctor
pilot
fighter
director
A
naval
translator
officer
An
architect
surgeon
dancer
A nurse

4.

Use the language in the box and the ideas in Exs. 1 & 2 to discuss, as in
the example.

5.

(someone
who can
do many
different
jobs)
jack-of-alltrades
bring home
the bacon
(to earn money for a
family to live on)
in the same boat
(in the same difficult
situation as someone else)
follow in her footsteps
(to do the same
thing as someone
else did
previously)

6.

Match the idioms to their definitions.
jack-of-alltrades
(in the same difficult
situation as someone else)
follow in her
footsteps
(someone who can do
many different jobs)
in the same
boat
(to earn money for a
family to live on)
bring home the
bacon
(to do the same thing as
someone else did previously)

7.

Guess the idiom.
Follow
Bring
Jack-of-all-trades
In the
home
in her
same
the
footsteps
boat
bacon

8.

Complete the idioms.
follow in her
footsteps
jack-of-all-trades
in the same boat
bring home the
bacon