Lesson 2 Personalities and Jobs

1. Lesson 2 Personalities and Jobs

2. Do you think there is necessary connection between “ personalities and jobs” ?

3. Look at the photographs .Can you think of some words about their personalities?

4. confident, sharp, responsible… politician

5. confident, sharp, have a sense of justice

6. Do you want to be a teacher? Why? patient kind well-educated creative open-minded

7. What characteristics a doctor needs to have? kind patient caring careful neat

8. sharp, well – organized

9. brave

10. outgoing confident creative

11. athletic, strong-minded

12. creative

13. Farmers play an important part in society, do you think so? hardworking

14. Work in pairs and discuss the following questions.

15. What job do you want to do? Why? 2. What characteristics have you got that are good for this kind of job? 3. What will you have to do to get this job? What skills will you need and what exams will you have to pass?

16. Complete each sentence with a word from the Key Words box. athletic, confident, creative, independent, intelligent, neat, outgoing, patient, selfish, sharp

17. A ________ person is someone who is sure that he or she can do something or deal with a situation successfully. confident 2. A person with a _____ mind is able to think and understand things very quickly. sharp

18. ________ person would care only • about themselves and not about other people. Selfish patient 4. A ______ person can wait for a long time for something without getting angry or worried.

19. 5. Someone _______ is good at producing new ideas and good ideas. creative 6. Someone _________ is clever and good at understanding ideas and thinking quickly. intelligent

20. 7. Someone _________ likes to meet and talk to new people. outgoing 8. Someone ___________ is able to do things by themselves and in their own way. independent

21. 9. A ______ person likes to keep things tidy. neat • _________ people like to exercise and are good at sports. Athletic

22. Listen to a class discussion and answer the questions. Use the Strategies to help you.

23. _____________ believes that computer programmers are not sociable but they have to be creative. Xiao Dong 2. Tour guides need to be independent, outgoing and have a desire to share information. They must also be able to deal with many different situations and problems. Cao Wen thinks that they must also get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing other people enjoying themselves.

24. 3. Li Liang said, “They must never give up.” which job is he talking about here? farming 4. What is Wang Shu’s opinion about people who wish to be nurses? They have to be caring people and are willing to help others. 5. Who wants to be a doctor? Cao Wen

25. giving opinions: 1. It seems to me that they have to be creative. 2. I’m certain that this is a very exciting job. 3. I think tour guides must also get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing other people enjoying themselves. 4. As I see it, farmers are very important. 5. I think you’d make a great cook, Wang Shu. 6. I would have thought that some of you might like to work in… 7. I feel that nurses need to have a lot of kindness.

26. responses to opinions: 1. To some extent, yes. 2. You are right there. 3. I agree. 4. That’s a good point. 5. Right, but that’s true for everyone, isn’t it? 6. I couldn’t agree more. 7. That’s cool.

27. Showing interest Listen to the dialogues and complete the Function File. Mm, Anything else, Really, That’s interesting, Yes, Right

28. 1. A: Did you know that Alice can speak three languages? B: ______? I find that very hard to believe. She’s only five. A: But it’s true! Ask her mother! Really

29. 2. A: I feel that airlines should not allow new-born babies aboard their long distance flights. Mm B: _______, I quite agree. There’s nothing worse than listening to a crying baby for 12 hours.

30. 3. A: I ’ve just seen Ian holding a bunch of flowers and walking into a restaurant. B: __________________. He told me he was going to the library! I wonder why he lied. A: Maybe he’s too shy to tell you he has a new girlfriend! That’s interesting

31. 4. A: Do you remember what I said about making hay while the sun shines? B: ________. A: Well, it means that when things are going well you should make the best of them, so, because my boss was pleased with my report, I asked for extra vacation and got it! B: That’s great! Yes

32. 5. A: It really makes me mad when Jim sings at work. I also hate shaking hands with him. His hands are always damp! And he wears such terrible clothes, like that pink shirt ! Anything else B: ____________? A: Yes! I really dislike it when he eats garlic for lunch. He has terrible breath for the rest of the day! B: So I guess you’ll be looking for a new assistant soon!

33. A: I heard that the weather is going to change this weekend. Will we still go camping if it’s raining? • B: we’ll only go camping if the sun is • shinning . Otherwise we’ll • go to the cinema and watch the new Jackie Chan movie. Right B: _________. I just wanted to see what the back-up plan was.

34. Complete the passage with the correct words in brackets. Jackie is an (1) __________ (independent /independence) dolphin trainer. She used independent

35. to work at Sea World but she prefer the (2)____________ (independent/ independence) of making her own decisions. She loves her job because she says that dolphins are one of the most (3) _________ (intelligent/ independence intelligent

36. intelligence) animals on earth. Jackie believes that any animal trainer has to have two important characteristics. The first is (4) ________ (patient/ patience). Animals take a long time to train so you have to be (5) _________ patience patient

37. (patient/ patience)with them. The second characteristic is (6) __________ (confident/confidence). Animals react well to (7)_________ (confident/ confidence) people. I asked Jackie if there was any other confidence confident

38. animal with almost thesame level of (8) ___________ (intelligent/intelligence) as the dolphin and do you know what she replied? “human, of course!” intelligence

39. Speaking Choose a job from the list below and write notes about the say what qualities and skills are needed for the job. architect, astronaut, accountant, engineer, dentist, fire fighter, poet, translator

40. Would you enjoy doing these jobs? Discuss in pairs. Showing interest using the language in Function File.

41. Homework Write sentences about your best friend and say what job would be suitable for him / her . Give reasons.