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Describe jobs, professions and work places
Learning activity 1.8
Learning activity 1.9
Write some adjectives. Look the example.
What are these jobs like?
Work in small groups and read the text below. Take turns to read aloud.
Practice your pronunciation and intonation. In addition improve your listening comprehension.
Underline the words you don´t know. Look up at the dictionary for the meaning and write them
in your Glossary.
During the last half of the nineteenth century, the role that was assigned to women
was of wife and mother.
They were employed as maids, seamstresses, clerks at a store, and caretakers of
sick persons.
The formal work and professions were considered a masculine activity.
President
Rancher
Housekeeper
Lab technician
Bellboy
Police ofcer
Construction
worker
Farmer
Stressful, well paid, demanding
The role of men and women in the world of work