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Work and Jobs in the Oxford Essential

Dictionary

Activity 1
Work in a small group. Look at the pictures of jobs on page P12 and answer
the questions. Some questions have more than one answer. Look up any words
that you don’t know in the dictionary.
1 Who works in a school? ________________________________________________

2 Who works in a hospital? ________________________________________________

3 Who works in a restaurant? ________________________________________________

4 Who works with animals? ________________________________________________

5 Who can repair a broken tap? ________________________________________________

6 Who can stop you if you drive your car too fast? ________________________________________________

7 Who uses a brush to do their job? ________________________________________________

8 Who uses a hammer and nails to do their job? ________________________________________________

9 Who can send you to prison if you break the law? ________________________________________________

10 Who can help you if you have toothache? ________________________________________________

Activity 2
Complete the sentences by using the verbs in the box. Make sure that you put the verb in the
right tense. Use the dictionary to help you.

apply  commute  earn  employ  fire  pay  resign  retire

1 The boss __________________________ him because he was always late for work.
2 This factory __________________________ over a thousand workers.
3 I __________________________ about £30,000 per year in my present job.
4 Sylvia __________________________ from work when she was 65 years old.
5 Tom didn’t agree with the changes at work, so he __________________________ .
6 Every day I have to __________________________ a long way to work.
7 It looks like a good job. Why don’t you __________________________ for it?
8 We __________________________ them about £500 to repair our car.

Work and Jobs in the Oxford Essential Dictionary PHOTOCOPIABLE © Oxford University Press 2012
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Activity 3
Look at the table and fill in the missing information in the first two rows. Then choose
another job and fill in the last row to complete the table.

Job Places Activities Tools and equipment

school teaching
classroom listening
reading
writing

chef saucepan
knife
apron

Work and Jobs in the Oxford Essential Dictionary PHOTOCOPIABLE © Oxford University Press 2012