Lesson 23 – Why work?

Warm Up

1. 1. What job do you do and do you enjoy it? (or about weekend jobs or what you want to do after you finish your study)
   2. Why do you do your job, or why do you want a particular job?

Main Activity

Listening

1. . You are going to hear people talking about their jobs.
   factory worker
   sports center manager
   nurse
   
2. Play the recording twice and answer:
   

    

3. Listen again and tell why the people do the jobs.What is each person’s motivation? What are the reasons why they do their jobs? 
4. Play the recording and compare answers with your classmates.
   

I don’t do it for the money
I work for the money.
I work to live; I don’t live to work.
My work is my life. 

What do you think of these opinions? Do you agree or disagree with them?

Speaking

1. You are going to think about why people work, and reasons for not working. Your class will be divided in half: A and B.
2. The A and B groups do different things:

• A groups has to read the sheets and help each other with anything that do not understand. You don’t have to interview each other but just read the instructions.
• B groups have to talk together about reasons for working and not working. You should make notes.

Your teacher will put students into pairs: A with B. Student A going to interview student B and find the score.
The scores will be compared around the class, and discuss what you think. Discuss does the score is a good description. Tell good reasons, or bad reasons, that you heard for working or not working.

Follow up

1. Write a paragraph about your ideal job and a paragraph about why it would be perfect for you.
2. Your teacher is going to circulate the paragraphs, and you have to guess who wrote them.

You are going to interview someone. First, read and check that you understand.

The interview
Reasons for working

1. Tell your partner that you are going to give them ten reasons for working. Ask your partner to give each reason a score from 1 to 5:

Reasons for NOT working
Ask your partner if you think of any reasons for not working. If they can, write their reasons
in the list.

1. very important
2. important
3. quite important
4. not very important
5. not important at all

How to find the final score:
Reasons for working total + Reasons for not working total = final score
Under 15: You will have to win a lot of money or marry a millionaire because you have no interest in work.
15-19: You must be more positive or you will never be happy in your job.
Over 20: You are quite interested in working, but you can also see the positive side of not working.
Over 30: You are quite interested in working. Good luck with your future.

How important are the reasons? What do you think? Give them your score from 1 to 5:

Exercises