Unusual Jobs
Watch the videos below. What are those jobs and what are the negative sides?
Book Cutting Edge - Student Book Pre-Intermediate pp.27
Unusual Jobs
Read the text and do the tasks.
There are a lot of people out there who are not satisfied or just plain bored with their office work. There is also a small group of people who are doing jobs you will never believe exist — for some serious cash. Get ready to see jobs that obliterate the concept of a 9-5.
There are the most unusual jobs you have never heard about. Would you want to switch to one of these?
Listen to this monolog about Unusual Jobs
1. Which of the unusual jobs mentioned above
A) has to deal with poisonous animals? ___________________________________
B) spends enjoyable time with you for money? ___________________________________
C) eats the food animals usually eat? ___________________________________
D) eats bugs or insects? ___________________________________
E) spends time in an aqua park? ___________________________________
F) can be seen in commercials? ___________________________________
G) can get caught in algae? ___________________________________
H) deals with lots of napkins? ___________________________________
2. Find the word in the text. Mind the words in the word list below which are odd.
Word list: pent-up, delicious, algae, milker, coincidence, multiple, scuba diving, stunt, hug, venom, nutritious, undesirable, gross, evaluate.
A) an underwater plant - ___________________________;
B) nourishing, efficient as food - __________________________;
C) the activity of swimming underwater using a scuba - ________________________________;
D) snake poison - __________________________;
E) a nasty, unpleasant thing - ____________________________;
F) an exciting, dangerous action - _________________________.
G) a concurrence of events - _____________________________;
H) hidden, unable to be expressed - ________________________.
3. Write if the sentence is true or false.
1. A water slide tester’s responsibility is to see how much water is needed for the slide. __________
2. A person must be very pretty to work a body part model. __________
3. A snake milker milks only poisonous snakes. __________
4. Golf ball divers usually enjoy their swimming underwater. __________
5. Stunt testers are highly paid. __________
6. It is easy to become a paper towel sniffer. __________
4. Say which of the jobs mentioned in the text are
A) dangerous; ______________________________________________________________
B) highly paid; ______________________________________________________________
C) the hardest to get; ______________________________________________________________
D) the easiest; ______________________________________________________________
E) the most enjoyable; ______________________________________________________________
F) the most unpleasant. ______________________________________________________________