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6 Get a job

1 Vocabulary  2 Read 

Listen. What do the phrases in bold mean? A. Look at the picture below. What do you
Match the pictures with the sentences a-f. think Jack’s ideal job is? Then listen, read
and check your answers.
I need some money for When I finished
my summer holiday, so school, I got a
I got a part-time job full-time job at MY
as a waiter. my parents’ shop. ideal

JOB
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I love playing computer games and I play them
almost every day. So I’d really like to be a
computer games tester.
1 2
It’s a good job because computer games
I haven’t found a I work at a café testers play games all day. They look for
job yet so I still get and I get paid problems new games might have. This is easy
pocket money from weekly. because I always find problems anyway. In
my parents. addition, they give ideas of how they can make

the games better. This is great for me because
I’ve got lots of brilliant ideas. And best of all,
you get paid for doing this. Imagine that!

The bad thing, however, is that computer
3 4 games testers have to sit in front of a computer
all day long which can damage their eyes. But
I’ve got an interesting I have to work really nowadays most jobs use computers anyway.
job but I have to work hard but I make a Another thing is that testers don’t get paid
long hours every day. lot of money, so I much but I can always have a normal job and
don’t mind.
be a part-time tester.

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a His parents give him some money.

b He works for some hours a few days of
the week.

Every week she gets the money she
c
works for.
d He works for the whole of a working week.

e She gets a lot of money from her job.
f She works many hours a day.

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