Lesson 4 Job Trends

Objectives

★To practice matching sentences with sentence gaps in a text.

★To practice vocabulary related to work and jobs.

★To practice collocations (verb noun, verb adverb, verb adjective).

Step 1 Pre-Reading

In pairs, discuss these questions. The Key Words may help you.

1 What job areas have become more important in the last twenty years?

2 What jobs have become less important?

3 What skills and qualities are useful to get a good job nowadays?

Key Words: farming, coal mining, information technology, the media, services, ship building, steel production

Job areas: