Page 62
Jobs and skills
I can understand people talking about skills.
THINK! At what ages can most people talk, walk, count, spell their name, read, write? When could you first speak English?
Genius!
Grace Hopper
A mathematics (1) expert / artist and computer (2) programmer / winner. She was also a university (3) inventor / professor.
Marie Curie
The (4) artist / scientist who discovered radium. First female (5) winner / writer of the Nobel prize for physics.
Judit Polgár
Number one female (6) genius / player in the world from the age of twelve, and the best female chess player in history. She beat the world (7) champion / winner, Garry Kasparov, in 2002.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A talented (8) musician / scientist and (9) composer / programmer.
Charles Dickens
One of the greatest (10) champions / writers in the English language.
Leonardo da Vinci
A (11) mathematician / champion, scientist, inventor and artist. Leonardo was a (12) genius / player with many different talents.
1. 🎧1.55 Choose the correct bold words in the texts. Listen and check.
2. 🎧 1.56 PRONUNCIATION /ǝ/ in jobs. Listen to the jobs. Then listen again and repeat.
1. programmer 5. writer
2. professor 6. player
3. inventor 7. composer
4. teacher
3. 🎧1.57 Listen to more jobs and skills. Find the words you hear in the text in exercise 1. Listen again and repeat the words.
TV3
The Day Today 8-9.00 p.m.
In this week's programme - Child prodigies
4. 🎧1.58 Listen to part of the programme and write True or False.
1. Clare isn't very good at maths.
2. Mozart couldn't compose music when he was eight.
3. Most children can read when they're six. 4 Leonardo da Vinci wasn't very good at spelling.
5. Kieron Williamson had £22,000 from his art when he was ten.
5. 
USE IT! Work in pairs. Use comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives in the box to compare jobs.
| boring difficult easy exciting good interesting useful |
I think it's probably interesting to be a writer.
I agree with Dani, but I think it's probably more useful to be a scientist.
