English education

6.3 Write the plurals for 1-5.

1 trade’s

2 craft’s

3 tradesman’s

4 housing project’s

5 general contractor’s

6.4 Listen to Sam Smith talking about trades and complete these sentences.
Hi! My name’s Sam Smith. I’m a electrician. I work on building sites. Today I trade what the school needs. I want to get an apprentice and he will help me at work. I love the works of journeyman. The master always supervises his workers.

6.5 Listen again and answer these questions.

1. What is Sam Smith's trade? Sam Smith trades is building sites

2. Where does he work? He works on a building site
6.6 Look at this list of courses at a vocational school. Match A-C to three of the courses. Then writ e the trade that each course refers to.
1 Basic tools and equipment: Toolbox

2 Carpentry: House builder

3 HVAC : A device that performs the heating system of houses, organizations

6.7 Work in pairs. Student A look at the information on this page. Student B look at the information on page 68
Student A

Read this email from a vocational school in Calgary, Canada and underline the key information.

Thank you very much for your telephone call. Our school offers five apprenticeship programs which include supervised training, on-the-job training and classroom teaching. The programs take three or four years to complete. The programs are HVAC, carpentry, residential electrician, welding and masonry. All programs include health and safety training, maths and English.

6.8 Work in the same pairs. Compare the two training institutes in 7. What things are the same? What things are different?

Other areas are: supervised teaching, on-the-job teaching and classroom teaching, health and safety teaching, math and English.

Applications in the same field: HVAC, carpentry, electrical engineering, welding and wall work.

7. 
   Trade materials