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Unit
9 
Safety at work
Put students into pairs and give them a time limit of, say, two 
minutes to list as many jobs as they can.
Write the winning pair’s words on the board, and one from each 
other pair. Encourage students to write down any new vocabulary.
From the words on the board, ask students to discuss with 
their partners which job they would most like to do, which job 
they would least like to do, the job which requires the most 
intelligence and the job which involves the most danger. 
Get feedback from students, particularly on the last question.
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• Ask someone to read out the fi rst sentence so that it is true 
for them and get other students who circled the same word 
to raise their hand. Repeat this procedure once more for the 
fi rst sentence and then with the other four sentences.
• After doing the exercise, ask students if they have ever had to 
carry out these instructions.
• After doing the exercise, ask students where the nearest fi re 
extinguisher and fi re station are.
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Help prevent fi re
1 After students have written three sentences, you can ask 
individual students to read out a sentence each. Write the fi rst 
three correct/good sentences on the board.
2  Before doing the exercise, ask students to look for the three 
ideas on the board, rather than their own, so that you can 
check their answers more effectively.
3 This exercise could be adapted by dictating the sentence 
halves to the class and getting students to write them on slips 
of paper before matching them in pairs. With books closed, 
you could even give pairs the beginnings fi rst and ask them to 
predict their endings.