ENGLISH WORKSHEET UNIT 1 READING
Name:______________________________ Grade: _______________Date:__________________
Objective: To demonstrate reading comprehension of different types of texts answering several
kinds of questions written and orally.
I .-Match the jobs with their definitions:
a) Lawyer _______ A person who heals sick people.
b) Farmer _______ A person who defends the rights of
people in a court.
c) Principal _______ A person who rules and organizes a
school.
d) Actress _______ A person who plants and take care of
animals.
e) Doctor _______ A person who performs in a theatre or
TV.
II.- Choose 3 jobs and create the definitions.
a) _______________:
b) ______________ :
c) ______________:
III.- Read the text and underlined the cognates.
Some professions are common and some professions are not. Some are a family tradition. Like this. Carla
Torres works repairing cars in a garage. She works in the center of the Santiago city, she has a lot of
clients. Some football players from the Chilean National Football Team are her clients too. She is good at
repairing cars. To do this job she needs to pay attention to the detail and be good at repairing car’s
engines. She studied a few years in an institute in La Serena, but she also learned watching the job of his
father.
She also is a good chatting, working with people and cooking, but her favorite hobby is to sing although
she has a little time because she works from Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm. She works too
much and she doesn’t have enough time to share with her family, but she loves her job and receives an
excellent salary.
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IV.-Complete the box with the information from the text.
Occupation/ Profession/ Job title:
1) Primary responsibility: What do people in this occupation do?
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2) Requirements: What are the most important skills required
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3) Educational preparation: Did the person study? Where? How many years?
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Jobs characteristics:
4) Positive features: Mention two positive aspects of this occupation.
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5) Negative features: mention 2 negative aspects.
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V.-Use your notes to write some sentences about the job you would like to have. Follow
the example.
The people in this occupation are called__________________________ . The skills for this job
are:________________________________________________________________________
Positive features of this job
are:_______________________________________________________________________
Negative features
are:________________________________________________________________________
VI.-Complete the word with the right suffixes. (er –ist- ant- )
1)Waitr________ 2) sing______ 3) dent_________ 4) scient_______ 5)
electric______
6) police offic____ 7)Lawy______ 8)pharmac_______ 9)assist______ 10)
play_____
11) teach_____ 12)psycholog____ 13) actr______ 14) flight attend____________
VII.- .- Complete the sentences with so that.
1.-Work hard so that _______________________________________________________________
2.-Sandra works in a supermarket so that ______________________________________________
3.- They study hard so that __________________________________________________________
4.- She is good at studying in the university so that ______________________________________
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