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Au pair duties
Au pairs normally look after children and help with 
housework. You might be asked to do the following 
things.
Light housework
• washing and ironing clothes
• preparing food and washing-up
• cleaning and hovering
• dusting and polishing
Childcare
• looking after children
• babysitting in the evening
• taking the children to school and collecting them
• playing with the children
• helping at bedtime
Daily hours of work
You can expect to work around fi ve hours a day, to a 
maximum of 25 hours per week. In return, you will get 
board and lodging (a private room), all your meals, plus 
at least £55 pocket money each week. In addition, you 
should get two full free days per week to spend as you 
choose. During the school holidays, you may be offered 
more money and asked to work longer hours. Make sure 
you agree the terms before you do the extra work.
Most au pairs choose this type of work so that they can 
improve their English and living with a family is a good 
way to do this. You may also get time off during the day 
to attend language classes.
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Look at the unit title with the class. Elicit that students are going 
to read about shops and services in a town. Write Is there a … ? 
on the board. Students suggest words to complete the question, 
e.g. Is there a supermarket?
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• Ask students if they use these shops and services in their 
everyday lives. Encourage them to make sentences with I 
never/sometimes/often go to a …
.
• Discuss students’ suggestions and write a class list of other 
places on the board.
• When students have fi nished the exercise, ask one person 
to say a shop or service which is not very important, another 
to say a shop or service which is important and a third to say 
one which is very important. Ask the other students in the 
class if they agree.