1.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
A baker is someone who spends most of his time making, and selling, ... |
|
[ ] |
... meat. |
[ ] |
... fruit and vegetables. |
[ ] |
... bread (and possibly, cakes). |
[ ] |
... clothes. |
|
|
2.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
If you can see a lot of doctors and nurses, you are probably inside ... |
|
[ ] |
... a church. |
[ ] |
... a hospital. |
[ ] |
... a university. |
[ ] |
... a prison. |
|
|
3.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
My little sister has always loved animals. She is studying biology, and she hopes to go to ... ... to become ... ... |
|
[ ] |
... college ... / ... an animal doctor. |
[ ] |
... college ... / ... a vet. |
[ ] |
... university ... / ... a vet. |
[ ] |
... university ... / ... a veterinary surgeon. |
|
|
4.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
A shopkeeper may work in a specialist shop (such as a hardware shop), or in a much bigger ... |
|
[ ] |
... buying house. |
[ ] |
... department store. |
[ ] |
... multiple retail outlet. |
[ ] |
... large all-purpose shop. |
|
|
5.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
Someone who does a lot of work using a tractor is probably a ... |
|
[ ] |
... pharmacist. |
[ ] |
... farmer. |
[ ] |
... motor mechanic. |
[ ] |
... train driver. |
|
|
6.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
Someone who designs buildings is ... ... , but a person that designs and makes and mends machinery is ... ... . |
|
[ ] |
... a engineer ... / ... a architect. |
[ ] |
... an engineer ... / ... an architect. |
[ ] |
... a architect... / ... a engineer. |
[ ] |
... an architect... / ... an engineer. |
|
|
7.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
A journalist may be reporting for ... |
|
[ ] |
... a national newspaper. |
[ ] |
... television or the papers. |
[ ] |
... a local magazine. |
[ ] |
... television, radio, the press or online. |
|
|
8.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
Someone who spends most of their day in the kitchen is probably working as ... |
|
[ ] |
... waiter in cafe. |
[ ] |
... chef in restaurant. |
[ ] |
... a chef in a restaurant |
[ ] |
... a waitress in a cafe. |
|
|
9.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
In lots of jobs, people do the same thing 'over and over again'. But that could mean very different things to ... |
|
[ ] |
... actor, bus driver, factory worker. |
[ ] |
... a actor, a bus driver, a factory worker. |
[ ] |
... a actor, a bus driver or a factory worker. |
[ ] |
... an actor, a bus driver or a factory worker. |
|
|
10.
|
Choose the word (or words) that make the best sense in the gap.
My wife works in a shop, and I work as a teacher in a primary school. When we come home in the evenings we are both tired from ... |
|
[ ] |
... handling money all day. |
[ ] |
... standing up and smiling at people all day. |
[ ] |
... looking at books all day. |
[ ] |
... listening to children all day. |
|
|
It is worth noticing that quite a lot of English-language family names come from the jobs that people did in an earlier generation ('the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker' in one children's rhyme; 'tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor' in another). If you know of famous British people with names like this, it may help you remember them. (Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first woman Prime Minister towards the end of the 20th century; her husband's family name 'Thatcher' means 'someone who makes roofs for houses, using straw'. You may have seen ~ at least in pictures, or in film or on television ~ little country cottages, and other buildings, with roofs like this, which almost look more like hair!)
Other family names may come from where people live (like Street, Church, Lake, Rivers, Hill or Bridge), or some characteristic of the people (Armstrong, Whitehead, Smart), or from a name in an earlier generation (McDonald, O'Reilly, Prichard, Robertson). Maybe there are similar patterns in the names in your language, or in the phone-book at home. Once you know these things, you can make more connections in your mind, and your learning should be faster and richer.