++Content-Based Instruction: Vocational and Life Choices: Listening Task: Vocabulary Expansion Jobs/Occupations

Listening Task:

What jobs did you hear? Write them all down.

Check with partner. Listen again/Check with partner.

Teacher elicits and writes list on board.

Listen again and write remaining jobs.

Which job would you like? Write your reasons/compare.

Vocations/Jobs Activity Bank

- Using the Family with Professions and Occupations (young learners) by Sopho Sapharidze, Batumi

Have your students bring pictures of their parents, or have them draw their family. After modeling the grammar structure, have students show their pictures to the class and tell what their parents do for a living. You can use all the jobs as the vocabulary base for the professions class, as well as reinforce vocabulary with family.

Girogi: This is my mother. She is a doctor. This is my father. He is a businessman.

- Grammar: Use professions to show irregular plural (man/men, woman/women), using do/does

- Warm-up: Find out all the professions of your students parents before you start. Then use that as the base for the class vocabulary.

- Listening and speaking: Have students listen carefully for each profession. Giorgi - mother - doctor, father - businessman. You can make a chart for them. After, for speaking, ask them, "What does Giorgi's father do?" He is a businessman.

- Have students mime one of the professions and say, "I am Giorgi's father. Who am I?" You are a businessman!

- Starting a New World (6th graders to higher-level students) by Natia Katamadze, Batumi

You can hand-write this on sheets of paper for teams or pair work. Good chance for critical thinking and discussion, especially for teenagers.

Let's imagine for a while that the world has to start all over. Nothing exists but water, land, trees, animals and 50 people who ages range from 10-50. Trying to restart the world, your group has to select the six most necessary occupations to get the world going again.

List six occupations and the reasons why you selected each one.

Or, you can list different occupations and have students choose them. Remember to make sure they give a reason why they chose that profession.

a doctor, a lawyer, farmer, a professor, a doctor, a tailor, an engineer, etc.

Listening: A Traditional American Song

Click here for song:

I've been working on the railroad.

Pre-listening:

What jobs do you know that are hard work?
Why are they hard work?

During Listening:

Fill in the blanks with the correct word.

I’ve been working on the railroad. All the live long ______. I’ve been working on the rail
road, just to pass the time ________. Can’t you hear the _______ blowing? Rise up so early in
the morn! Can’t you hear the captain shouting? Dinah, blow your _______! Dinah, won’t you
blow, Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah won’t you blow your ______? Dinah, won’t you blow,
Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah won’t you blow your _______? Someone’s in the _________
with Dinah, someone’s in the _________, I know! Someone’s in the _________ with Dinah,
strumming on the old banjo. Fee fi fiddley aye, oh! Fee fi fiddley aye, oh- Fee fi fiddley
aye, oh! Strumming the old ban-jo!

After listening: (partners/groups)

What is the man's job? Where does the man work?
Is this man's job hard work? List three reasons.
Why do you think the captain is shouting?

++Content-Based Instruction: Vocational and Life Choices

Listening Task: Vocabulary Expansion Jobs/Occupations

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