Lesson 7

Course Information: Grade 7 English, Semester 1, Unit 2: Amazing Jobs, Lesson 7: Writing (Impact 1, Page 37).
Primary Objectives:
- Classify sentences describing various jobs according to the correct profession.
- Produce a complete, structured descriptive paragraph detailing an unusual job.

Professions are categorized into usual and unusual jobs based on their daily responsibilities and workplace environments:

Usual Jobs:
- Photographer
- Construction worker
- Nurse
- Babysitter
- Writer
- Office worker
Unusual Jobs:
- Food tester
- Babysitter for a parrot
- Steeplejack
- Underwater photographer
- Video game tester

Matching specific descriptive sentences to their corresponding professions:

Statements describing daily routines and conditions are classified by workplace and specific role:

Nurse at Sunshine Clinic:
- She has a tiring job at Sunshine Clinic.
- She is a nurse working at daytime and sometimes at night.
- She sometimes bandages the patients’ ankles.
- She loves working with sick people.
Parrot Babysitter at Al-Areen Park:
- She has a great job at Al-Areen Park.
- She is a daytime babysitter for 3 parrots.
- She feeds the parrots three times a day.
- She loves working at Al-Areen Park.

To write descriptions of professional routines, specific grammatical structures must be applied.

Present Simple Tense Functions:
- Permanent states: Long-term conditions or facts about a role.
- General truths: Universal facts.
- Routines: Repeated, habitual actions performed on the job.
Adverbs of Frequency: Used to indicate how regularly an action occurs (e.g., always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never).
Sentence Structure Examples:
- Rearranged word order exercise: in one year/ writes/ two novels/ he/ usually/ . becomes He usually writes two novels in one year.
- He usually works at night.
- She often cleans birds.
- They sometimes take photos in extreme places.

Structuring job descriptions requires answering a series of targeted prompts:

Target Prompts:
1. Who the person is: Define the person being described.
2. What the job is: Identify the precise job title and shift (e.g., daytime doctor).
3. Where he/she works: Specify the location/facility.
4. What he/she does: List at least 1-2 key routines using frequency adverbs.
5. Why he/she likes this job: Explain the personal motivation or interest.
6. Advice to others: State whether others should pursue the job and provide reasoning.
Exemplar Guided Profiles:
- Profile 1: Daytime Doctor
- Who: My uncle has a great job.
- Job Title: He is a daytime doctor.
- Workplace: He works in a health centre.
- Duties: He always treats sick people. He sometimes sutures wounds.
- Job Satisfaction: Because he meets new people and always has new friends.
- Recommendation: Yes, because it’s a highly respected job.
- Profile 2: Veterinarian
- Who: My mother has a tiring job.
- Job Title: She is a vet.
- Workplace: She works in an animal shelter.
- Duties: She mostly gives medicine to animals.
- Job Satisfaction: Because she loves working with animals.
- Recommendation: Yes, because they can explore animals’ world.

A complete descriptive paragraph contains four foundational structural elements:

Title: Gives an immediate idea of the paragraph's subject.
Topic Sentence: The opening sentence that introduces who or what the paragraph is about.
Details: Supporting sentences that elaborate on daily duties, schedules, and specific tasks.
Concluding Sentence: The final sentence that summarizes feelings, quotes, or overarching thoughts to close the paragraph.

Subject Job: Food Tester
Title: A Bright Work Day
Topic Sentence: My father has a great job at one of the best kitchens in a hotel in Bahrain.
Detailed Body Content:
- He is a daytime food tester and he mostly works at night.
- His job is mostly done in a kitchen, but sometimes he works in other places like wedding halls.
- He starts his work early in the morning.
- He tests the food for the breakfast meal and tests different kinds of juice.
- He also checks the amount of sugar in different drinks.
- Then, he smells and tastes vegetables and fruit arranged for lunch and he sometimes has to go to markets to buy the good ones himself.
- He tests boiled, fried, and grilled food, and gives advice to the chef.
- In the early evening, he starts checking the food for dinner.
- He tests everything like salad, bread, soup, and sweets.
Concluding Sentence: My father says, ‘I love food, and I love my job!’

Task Requirement: Write a report/paragraph describing someone’s unusual job in 100–120 words.
Required Content Elements:
- Title of the report
- Job identification
- Workplace location
- Daily routines (what he/she does)
- Concluding sentence

Title: A Tiring Work Day
Paragraph Text: My brother has a great job at the Science Centre. He is a daytime underwater photographer and he rarely works at night. He needs to be very careful. In the early morning, he goes to the centre and checks his tools like the camera and underwater breathing device. He wears his diving suit and fins. Then, he speaks to the divers to ask for information. After one hour, he is in water. He takes photos of many things like sand, coral reefs, fissures, ship wrecks and sea creatures. He also videos some scenes and uploads them on the Centre’s youtube channel. Mostly, he spends one hour underwater, but sometimes he doesn’t have to be in water, he lectures the visitors of the centre and shows them the photos and the videos. My brother says, 'Although I have a tiring job, I still love it!'