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Lesson 16 Topic: Jobs, work and study WID:

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- Vocabulary about jobs, work, studying and work
experience.
- Grammar: Can, Can't, Could, Couldn't
Skills …pts/10
- IE Reading: True/False/ Not given
- Writing: Describing a job/ field of study you are
interested in

Exercise 1. [Vocabulary] Complete the job advertisements with the words and phrases in the
box.

energy experience friendly hard-working long hours

speak another language sports, art or music weekend

Waiter/ Waitress needed for popular Italian restaurant. You do not need to have __________
of working in a restaurant, but you should be _________ and happy to work in a team. You will
work _________ especially at the weekends when we are very busy.

Receptionist for busy city hotel, who can ____________ (French, German or Spanish). You
should be __________ to guests and give them any information that they need about tourist
attractions, local restaurants and transport in the city.

Summer Camp Leaders to teach children __________ at a summer camp. You should have a lot
of ___________ because you will spend all day with the children. You will need to work
weekdays and at the __________ but you will have one day off each week.

Exercise 2. [Vocabulary] Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box.

failed finishes get learn learn passed

started starting studying take take taught

1. I ________ my driving test last month. Now, I drive to school every day.
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2. My older sister is ________ law. When she __________ university, she wants to be a family
lawyer.

3. I think that it is difficult for young people to _________ a good job without experience.

4. My father _________ me how to cook when I was a child.

5. I didn’t _________ how to play a musical instrument when I was younger. I would like to
_________ piano lessons, but they are very expensive.

6. Many students ___________ the exam. They will _______ it again next month.

7. I _______ my computer course last week. I want to ______ how to design my own website.

8. My friend is __________ her new job tomorrow. She feels a bit nervous.

Exercise 3. [can/ can’t-could/couldn’t] Read the email. There are 5 mistakes in the email.
Identify the mistakes and correct them.

Dear Simon,

I’m interested in the lifeguard job this summer.

I could swim very well. I can’t swim when I was a child but I learnt when I was 12.
I can’t also remember lots of information like instructions and what I need to do to help people 
in the swimming pool.

I have some questions about the lifeguards you had last year. They could talk to new people

easily? I can’t, so I think I am a good choice for this job.

Thanks,

Pablo
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Exercise 4. [can/ can’t-could/couldn’t] Rearrange the words to make a correct sentence.

Exercise 5. [IELTS Reading: True/ False/ Not given] Read the passage and answer the
questions.

Sylvia Earle, underwater hero

She has spent her working life studying the world’s oceans

Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935.
She became interested in the world’s oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on
the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.

When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that inspired
her to become underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under
water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest
dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 metres.

In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-
female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater ‘house’. The
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research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and
especially to coral reefs. Her team also studied the problem of over-fishing. Fishing methods
meant that people were catching too many fish, Earle warned, and many species were in
danger of becoming extinct.

Since then, she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of
reducing the damage that is being done to the world’s oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely
on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. Although
she no longer eats seafood herself, she realizes the importance it plays in our diets. It would be
wrong to tell people they should stop eating fish from the sea, she says. However, they need to
reduce the impact they are having on the ocean’s supplies.

Decide if these statements are True, False or Not given according to the information in the
passage. Write:

True  if the statement agrees with the text

False  if the statement does not agree with the text
Not Given  if there is no information about this in the text

1. Sylvia Earle lives in the USA.

2. Until 1970, nobody had lived underwater before.

3. Sylvia Earle was worried about the amount of fish that were being caught.

4. Her books offer some solutions to marine problems.

5. She thinks people should avoid eating seafood.

Exercise 6. [IELTS Reading: True/False/Not given] Read the passage and answer the questions.

Mau Piailug, ocean navigator

Mau sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti using traditional methods.

In early 1976, Mau Piailug, a fisherman, led an expedition in which he sailed a traditional
Polymesian boat across 2,500 miles of ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti. The Polymesian Voyaging
Society had organized the expedition. Its purpose was to find out if seafarers in the distant past
could have found their way from one island to the other without navigational instruments, or
whether the islands had been populated by accident. At the time, Mau was the only man alive
who knew how to navigate just by observing the stars, the wind and the sea.
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He had never before sailed to Tahiti, which was a long way to the South. However, he
understood how the wind and the sea behave arounf islands, so he was confident he could find
his way. The voyage took him and his crew a month to complete and he did it without a
compass or charts.

His grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby. He
showed him pools of water on the beach to teach him how the behaviour of the waves and
wind changed in different places. Later, Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions
of the stars. Each stone was laid out in the sand to represent a star.

The voyage proved that Hawaii’s first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading
the sea and the stars. Mau himself became a keen teacher, passing on his traditional secrets to
people of their cultures so that his knowledge would not be lost. He explained the positions of
the stars to his students, but he allowed them to write things down because he know they
would never be able to remember everything as he had done.

Do the statements agree with the information in the Reading Passage?

Write: TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1. At the time of his voyage, Mau had unique navigational skills.

2. Mau was familiar with the sea around Tahiti.
3. Mau thought it would be difficult to see a compass and charts.
4. Mau’s grandfather was his only teacher.
5. Mau used stones to learn where each star was situated in the sky.
6. The first inhabitants of Hawaii could read and write.

7. Mau expected his students to memorise the positions of the stars.

Exercise 7. [IELTS Reading: True/False/Not given] Read the passage and answer the questions.

Chilies
Chilies originate in South America and have been eaten for at least 9,500 years. Organized
cultivation began around 5,400 BC. Christopher Columbus was the first European to encounter
chilies, when he landed on the island of Hispaniola in 1492. He thought it was a type of pepper
and called it the “red pepper”, a name still used today. After their introduction to Europe they
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were an immediate sensation and were quickly incorporated into the diet. From there they
spread to Africa, India and East Asia.
The reason for the chili’s “hotness” lies in a chemical called Capsaisin. Capsaisin causes
temporary irritation to the trigeminal cells, which are the pain receptors in the mouth, nose and
throat. After the pain messages are transmitted to the brain, endorphins, natural pain killers,
are released and these not only kill the pain but give the chili eater a short lived natural high.
Other side effects include: an increased heart rate, a running nose and increased salivation and
sweating, which can have a cooling effect in hot climates.
The reason for the presence of Capsaisin is thought to be to deter animals from eating the fruit.
Only mammals feel the burning effects; birds feel nothing. As birds are a better method of
distributing the seeds, which pass intact through their guts, Capsaisin would seem to be a result
of natural selection.
The smaller chilies tend to be the hottest. This may reflect the fact that they tend to grow closer
to the ground and are therefore more vulnerable to animals. The heat of a chili is measured on
the Scoville scale. The hottest types such as the Habenero and the Scotch Bonnet rate between
100,000 and 300,000, the world famous Tabasco sauce rates at 15,000 to 30,000, about the
same as the Thai prikkhee nu, while the popular Jalapeno is between 5,000 and 15,000.
Powdered chili is 500 to 1,000 and the mild Capsaisins and paprikas can range between 100 and
0.
Do the following statements agree with the information in the text?

Mark them:

True  if the statement agrees with the text

False  if the statement does not agree with the text
Not Given  if there is no information about this in the text

1. Chilies became popular as soon as they were brought into Europe.

2. Capsaisin causes significant damage to the mouth.
3. Chilies can be part of a birds diet. 
4. All large chilies grow high off the ground. 
5. People breed chilies for their heat. 

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Exercise 8. [IELTS Reading: True/ False/ Not given] Read the following passage.

Tipping Makes A Comeback

Long absent in China, tipping is making a comeback at a few trendy restaurants. For the past
couple of decades, night owls with the munchies have flocked to a certain street in Beijing that
is packed with all-night restaurants. The sidewalks are jammed with cars and have a perpetual
smell of rancid-smelling cooking oil.
One of the trendier restaurants on the block is called A Very Long Time Ago. The decor is
upscale Paleolithic, with silhouettes of cavemen traipsing across the walls. The clientele is not
so fossilized, with the eatery catering to relatively wealthy, young customers who are willing to
pay for better service. They’re mostly 20-somethings, who roast skewers of food over hot coals,
and are leading a small-scale revival of tipping not seen in Chinese restaurants for decades. The
trend began at this restaurant last October, and is so far confined to Beijing, Shanghai and other
top-tier cities.
Every few minutes at A Very Long Time Ago, a prerecorded message informs diners that if they
like the service, they can use their smartphones to scan QR codes that the waitstaff wear on
their sleeves. This generates a tip of 4.56 yuan, about 70 cents. Diners can tip as many times as
they want.
“To customers, that’s like just a game,” says restaurant owner Song Ji. He invented this system,
which he claims is the first of its kind in China. The important thing, Song says, is to keep the
tips small in proportion to the bill, so the bonus doesn’t become an onus on customers. “Where
the average bill is $30 per person,” he says, “I recommend a tip of no more than 70 cents.”  In
other words, he suggests tipping the wait staff about 2.5 percent of the bill. Song is 32, and he
runs a chain of 36 eateries in three cities, including this one.
He’s just back from the U.S., where he visited restaurants in Chicago and Los Angeles. He says
he felt that tipping has not only become a burden on American customers, but more
importantly, it has lost its meaning. “No matter how bad the service gets, you still have to give a
15 percent tip,” he observes. “That’s no good!”
Song pulls out his cellphone to show me statistics on tipping at all of his restaurants. There’s an
app for that, of course, and it shows how many times each member of the waitstaff has been
tipped at each restaurant, and how much money they’ve earned in total.
This restaurant’s top tip-taker is 20-year-old Liu Enhui. In addition to her base salary of about
$450 a month, she says she can get as many as 60 tips in an evening. “It’s important to me. I
take in anywhere from $15 to $30 in tips a day,” she explains. “Over the course of a month, it
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really adds up.” She says that getting fewer tips motivates her to work harder and try to strike
up a conversation with customers.
At A Very Long Time Ago, most of the customers do tip. One regular, who only gives his last
name, Yu, says that at a restaurant like this one, service matters. “Especially when you’re
grilling meat, you don’t know if it’s cooked through or not,” he explains. “The waiter or waitress
can show up at the right time to tell you when it’s ready.”
Feng Enyuan, deputy director of the Chinese Culinary Association, points out that forms of
tipping did exist in China before the Communist revolution. In some restaurants, satisfied
customers would toss change into a bamboo tube next to the cashier. But the practice was
wiped out along with private enterprise in the 1950s. During the height of Maoism in the 1960s
and 1970s, very few people ate in restaurants, and the very idea of one person serving another
was seen as anathema, and a form of capitalist exploitation.
Feng says reintroducing the practice of tipping has to be done slowly and cautiously. He offers
this advice to restaurateurs: “Don’t ruin a good thing,” he counsels. “Whatever you do, don’t
make things difficult for customers or make them feel uncertain about what to do.” For now, he
predicts, tipping is likely to remain limited to young, smartphone-equipped customers at trendy
restaurants in China’s top cities.
Are the following statements true, false, or not given in the text? Write:
True if the statement agrees with the text
False if the statement does not agree with the text
Not Given if there is no information about this in the text
1. It’s hard for hungry people to find food late at night in Beijing.
2. A Very Long Time Ago is located in a road that always smells rotten.
3. The restaurant is decorated with scenes from the Stone Age.
4. The customers are interested in fossils.
5. Tipping used to be popular in China.
6. Most cities in China are following this trend.
7. The manager can check the amount of each tip of all his waiters.
8. Customers don’t really care about the service because for them it’s just a game.
9. Mao disliked being served in a restaurant.
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WRITING PORTFOLIO 7
Topic: Write a paragraph describing a job/ field of study you are interested in
In your paragraph, you should include:
 What is the job?
 Why are you interested in that job?
 What are the requirements to do that job?
You should write 150 – 200 words.
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