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Reading

1 Look at the photos. Answer the questions.
1 What are the people doing?
2 Why do you think they are doing it? Forget babysitting!

OK, OK, it’s true. Looking after the neighbour’s baby isn’t the most
stimulating job in the world. But what other work can a teenager do?
House cleaning Pet care Cooking
Busy people don’t have much time for Do your neighbours have pets? Yes? Are you a good cook? Some people come
housework, so you can offer to clean Then you’re in luck! Talk to them and home late in the evening. They’re tired
their house or tidy their garage. offer to walk their dog, clean out the fi sh and they don’t want to cook. You can
tank or feed their cat. You can even look offer to have dinner ready for them. You
Gardening
People always need help in the garden. after their pet when they go on holiday. can also sell cakes to your neighbours.
In spring you can plant fl owers, in Teaching computing Helping with homework
summer you can water and cut the lawn, Some older people can’t use a computer. Are you good at music, a foreign
in autumn you can sweep dead leaves Remember - they probably didn’t have a language, or Maths? Then you can help
and in winter you can shovel snow. computer when they were children. You younger children with their homework.
can make money teaching them to use
Car cleaning
You can wash people’s cars weekly their computers. Key Words
or monthly.
stimulating water (v) lawn
sweep shovel foreign
2 Read and check your answers to Exercise 1.
3 3.34 Read the article again. Who do you Listening
think the text is for?
1 busy people 1 3.35 Listen to a radio show about summer
2 teenagers jobs. Which topics does Tim talk about?
3 parents
1 Where he works.
4 3.34 Read the article again. Answer the 2 What he does.
questions. 3 What time he starts and finishes work.
4 How much money he makes.
1 Does the writer of the article think babysitting is 5 What the job gives him.
an interesting job? No, he/she doesn’t. 6 His favourite thing about his job.
2 What kind of people don’t have time to tidy
their garage? 2 3.35 Listen again. Choose the correct answer.
3 What job can you do in a garden in spring?
1 Tim is
4 What job can you do in a garden in autumn?
a fifteen. b sixteen. c seventeen.
5 What can you do when your neighbours go
on holiday? 2 He has worked at Wisehaven pool for
6 Why can’t some old people use a computer? a two summers. b two months. c two years.
7 Why don’t some people want to cook in 3 The job is never
the evening? a stressful. b busy. c dull.

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