UNIT THREE: “AT WORK”
VOCABULARY Professions: Actress, artist, builder, chef, computer programmer, doctor, explorer, inventor, journalist, lawyer, nurse, pilot, police officer, scientist, vet, writer.
Housework: Clean the floor, do the shopping, do the washing-up, make (your) bed, take the rubbish out, tidy up.
Additional language: Bandage, boa constrictor, during, emergency, hospital, iguana, injection, inside, machine, on (his) own, operate, outside, parrot, rib, travel, bowl, collect, cupboard, dirty, do the cooking, fetch water, firewood, food, get to, hungry, look after, make a fire, market, milk, sink, spill, tired, wash the clothes, act, Economics, engineer, fly, invent, job, licence, paint, sail, secretary, study, university
Actions: Begin-began, finish-finished, give-gave, put-put, shut-shut, sleepslept, tell-told, wake up-woke up, want-wanted, meet-met, travel-travelled, readread, get-got, arrive-arrived, have/has-had, come-came, do-did, go went, cancould, am/is-was, are-were, write-wrote, make-made, put-put. Past simple tense: affirmative, negative (didn’t) and questions (did......?) Present simple: affirmative, negative, questions. Expressions: I’m freezing! It’s wierd, right, of course. -Wh words: when, where, how, why, what, which, who
GRAMMAR
Ask and give information about the actions in the past. I didn’t want to get up
My alarm clock rang I worked all night
My mum gave me a sandwich
Ask and give information about what we have or don’t have to do. Do you have to (make your bed)? Yes, I do / No, I don’t. He has to clean the floor and make his bed We don’t have to take the rubbish out Jenny doesn’t have to do the washing-up or tidy up
Ask and give information about famous people’s lives in the past using yes / no, and –wh questions. Did Cook explore Australia? Yes, he did. Did Monroe fly planes? No, she didn’t. When did Amy go to Australia?
Talk about what professional people do A scientist studies the natural world An inventor makes new things A pilot flies planes and helicopters A nurse looks after people... ...