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1 Students write a short description of their current job or a 
job they have done. Encourage them to select words or 
phrases from the texts in Section A which are useful to 
them when talking about their own work. Remind them to 
mention their duties and what they are / were responsible 
for in their description.
2 Choose a job and describe it to the class, without naming the 
job. Students have to identify the job. Encourage students to 
choose and describe a job for the class to identify.
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B
A reminder for everyone
Make sure that students know the meaning of the word remind 
(make someone remember something or remember to do 
something).
1–6 Students can do these exercises in pairs. Check answers.
7 Students can do this exercise in pairs. Alternatively, they can 
work on their own and then compare answers. 
8 Ask students to look at the extra picture and write another duty 
for Raquel’s list.
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1 Tell students to imagine that they work in the hotel as a 
chambermaid and that they have just received a memo 
from Raquel with a reminder of their duties. Students work 
in pairs to write a list of duties (as in Exercise 6). They can 
then exchange their list with another pair of students and 
see if they have to do the same duties.
2 Students can mime chambermaid duties for the rest of 
the class to guess.
3 Below you will fi nd a description of the duties for an au pair. 
Ask students to suggest (or list) the kind of duties that au 
pairs do. They can then read the description and fi nd out if 
the duties they mentioned are included.
 
Real Reading 1 by Liz Driscoll