DVIZH_Spotlight_10_mod_3b (1)

1.

VOCABULARY
alternative
salary
apply for
shift work
applicant
architect
armed forces
bank clerk
common sense
beautician
communication skill
celebrity
current
flight attendant
emergency service
florist
energetic
freelancer
full-time
lawyer
hardworking
plumber
part-time
surgeon
requirement
translator
risky

2.

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

3.

Look at the jobs in Ex. 1 again. Find at least two jobs that the following
people couldn’t do.
work
inJane.
thea
“I’m
notseasick
good to
at
working
“I
can’t
stand
want
being
go
to
behind
“Idon’t
get
easily.”
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
AAAA
gardener
doctor
fire
AA pilot
vet
fighter
A bank
clerk
A managing
A fisherman
AA
Acarpenter
lawyer
surgeon
A
nurse
secretary
director

4.

Find at least one type of job which …
is
risky.
somebody
requires
that
can
you
do
partwear
a
…
outdoors/indoors.
……can
asks
involves
is
starts
pays
you
9be
full-time.
can
to
for
a done
good
early
5.do
ahighly-qualified
shift
lot
as
salary.
inof
part
work.
the
travelling.
responsibility.
of
morning.
a team.
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

5.

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

6.

(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)

7.

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)

8.

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

9.

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