Career choices. English 9.

Match the explanations with the jobs.

                 [A chemist, A pharmacist, An estate agent, A receptionist]makes and sells medicines.

               [A receptionist, A bodyguard, An editor, An accountant]prepares or organises a newspaper or magazine.

                 [An editor, An estate agent, An architect, A carpenter]is a person whose business is to buy, sell or look after houses.

                 [A bodyguard, A travel agent, A receptionist, An estate agent]welcomes or deals with people arriving at a hotel, at a place of business, visiting a doctor.

You order food and drink from this person in a restaurant.

A job that requires special training, often a university education.

A job or a profession.

The work that a person does regularly in order to earn money.

A professional growth that a person does in his or her life, usually in one field.

The idea of a "job for life" has already become...

Work that you only do a few hours a week.

When people lose their jobs they become ...

Aptitudes are ...

The learnt capacity for doing something is a ...

Your parents are good and successful doctors, so you want to be a doctor too. It means that you want ...

Fill in the gaps with an appropriate word (who/whose/which/where).

1. An engineer is a person     designs, builds or maintains engines or machines.

2. That's the village       my mother was born.

3. An accountant is someone       job is to keep and check financial accounts.

4. That's the shop       they sell skateboards.

5. Batman has a special car       can travel very fast.

6. A sales manager is a person     deals with selling products.