PROFESSIONS

Vocabularies and phrases:

Occupational therapists : A person who help regain the function of disable people
due to accidents
Occupation : profession
Incorporates : combine
Complicated :complex, tricky
Exactly : Actually, precisely
Disabilities : inability, incapability
Regain : recover, retrieve
Independent : being able doing something by himself/herself
Instead of : from
Muscles : brawn, meat in one’s body
Make sense : understandable
Incorporates : combine, integrate
Actually : exactly, virtually, really
Broad : extensive, wide
For instances : for example
Get (something) back into : to bring something into a condition where it was before
Through : via, by means of
Sewing : tailoring
Riding : getting on vehicles or horse
Depend : rely
Injury : wound, hurt, lesion
Acute : critical, serious, bad
Move on : go on, continue
Organize : arrange
Basic : base, primary, main
Complicated : tricky

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 Dialogue

Directions:
- Study the following text about professions. Use the words in vocabulary list to help you
understand any difficult word.
- Listen to the audioof the following conversationtext about professions!
- Read the conversation texts out loud with many repetitions!
- Study the underline expressions in the text that we might use when talking aboutprofessions!

Nicola: So, Cat, I'd like to ask you more about your job. What exactly does an O. T. do?

Cat:Occupational therapists work with people who have had accidents or disabilities, help them
regain function and so that they can be independent in the activities that they enjoy doing, so the
occupation and occupational therapies, the activities people enjoy doing every day, and it looks
into, instead of physiotherapy works with just the muscles and building muscles, so they just do
repetitions, but occupational therapy incorporates things that people actually enjoy doing into the
activities for therapy, if that makes sense. It's kind of broad, but yeah!

Nicola: So, it's kind of getting them back into their own life, their normal life? So, for example,
if they've had an accident, is it or, for young people or old, or?

Cat: Yeah, it's the whole span of people, but um, yeah, people, for instances if a child has had an
accident their main occupation is playing so, you want to get them back into as much play as
they can, and get them as strong as you can, so you can do that through play, but an adult you
want to try and get them back into, say if they enjoy sewing or riding or surfing or those kinds of
activities, as the O. T. you try to incorporate that into the therapy that you do with them, as much
as you can. It depends on their injury.

Nicola: OK, so where are you working now as an O. T.?

Cat: Right now, I'm working in hospital at Lismore, and it's more of an acute care setting so
people who have had major injuries or accidents and it's pretty much just helping them move on
to the next step, either going home or going to another hospital and organizing the things that
they need to be able to get back to the activities of daily living. (Wow) It's kind of complicated,
but that's the basics of it, but it's a little bit more than that.

Nicola: That sounds pretty challenging.

Cat: Yeah, it's good.

Nicola: OK, so thanks for talking to us and all the best in your work.

Speaking Practice!
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 1. What is your profession?
2. If you could pick a job, what job do you want to have? And why?

Study the following language focus that you might find in conversations about professions!

LANGUAGE FOCUS :
 Sentences : Nominal and Present ContinuousTense

1. Nominal Sentence
Examples:
a. I am a teacher (+)
I am not a teacher (-)
Am I a teacher? (?)

b. It is dangerous (+)
It is not dangerous (-)
Is it dangerous? (?)

2. Present Continuous / Progressive Tense

Examples:
- Right now, I'm working in hospital at Lismore (+)
- Right now, I'm not working in hospital at Lismore (-)
- Where are you working now as an O.T.?

We use the present continuous tense to talk about:

 Action happening now
 Action in the future

Present Continuous tense for action happening now

a) For action happening exactly now

I am eating my lunchright now.

past present future

The action is
happening now.

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b) For action happening around now

The action may not be happening exactly now, but it is happening just before and just after now,
and it is not permanent or habitual.

John is going out with Mary.

past present future

The action is happening

around now.

Look at these examples:

 Muriel is learning to drive.

 I am living with my sister until I find an apartment.

Present Continuous tense for the future

We can also use the present continuous tense to talk about the future - if we add a future word!!
"Future words" include tomorrow, next year, in June, etc. We only use the present continuous
tense to talk about the future when we have planned to do something before we speak. We have
already made a decision and a plan before speaking.

I am taking my exam next month.

past present Future

!!!

A firm plan or programexists

The action is in the future.
now.

Look at these examples:

 We're eating in a restaurant tonight. We've already booked the table..

 They can play tennis with you tomorrow. They're not working.
 When are you starting your new job?

In these examples, we have a firm plan or program before speaking. The decision and plan
were made before speaking.

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