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5 TIME TO SPEAK LESSON OBJECTIVE

■ decide how to use your skills

Design your perfect job

A DISCUSS With a partner, talk about the skills and interests you need for your job – or a job you’d like
to do. Compare them with your partner’s job.

In engineering, you have to be good at math and physics. And

you need to be interested in technology and computers.

In accounting, you have to be good at math, but

you don’t need to know about physics. You also …

B RESEARCH Now tell your partner about skills and interests you have, which you don’t need for the
FIND IT job you chose in part A. Together, think of other jobs you could do in order to use these skills. You can
go online to find the names of jobs you don’t know in English.

I’m good at cooking. And I really like writing.

OK. So, you could be a journalist who writes about food and restaurants.

C PREPARE With your partner, design a real or imaginary job for each of you that uses as many of your
skills and interests as possible. Invent a title for your job.

D PRESENT Tell the class about your partner’s job and why it would be perfect for him/her.
E AGREE The class chooses: (a) the most useful job, (b) the most amusing job, and (c) the coolest job.

To check your progress, go to page 155.

USEFUL PHRASES
DISCUSS RESEARCH / PREPARE PRESENT
You have to be good at … You could make/help/sell/ My partner’s job is …
You need to know a lot about … design … It would be perfect for him/
You have to be interested in … You could be a / work in a … her because …

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