Jobs- Compound Nouns Matching Pairwork

Student A

First, read only the word in bold to your partner. Together try to work out which of their words in bold goes together with your word to make the name of a job. To check your answer, read out the whole of your half sentence and see if it makes sense with your partner’s half. When you are sure of your answer, write the missing word in the gap below. Do not look at each other’s sheets until your teacher tells you to.

For every one hundred actors, only one or two become movie _________

Job advertisements never say that flight _____________

The tour ________

Many women have to work as part time __________

Professional __________

Although there are many business __________

Stock _______________

The worst part of being an airline ___________

Using head ____________

Even though security ____________

To be a check in _______________

Being an assistant ______________

Although television _________

Check as a class or with the suggested answers.

Look at the whole sentences and discuss which you think are true.

Work together to write similar statements about other jobs, then see if people in other groups agree.

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Student B

First, read only the word in bold to your partner. Together try to work out which of their words in bold goes together with your word to make the name of a job. To check your answer, read out the whole of your half sentence and see if it makes sense with your partner’s half. When you are sure of your answer, write the missing word in the gap below. Do not look at each other’s sheets until your teacher tells you to.

________ guide told us everything about the history of the castle but I couldn’t remember any of it when I got home

__________ athletes nowadays get paid too much money for what is basically a hobby

_________ pilot is always being away from home

__________ workers so they can pick their children up from school at 3 or 4 o’clock

__________ brokers have such high pressure jobs that they often have to retire in their 30s or 40s. Luckily, they can make a lot of money before that time.

_________ hunters to steal the top staff or other companies is unfair business practice.

________ guards do a job that is similar to a police officer, they don’t get nearly as much money or respect

____________ stars who get the lead in big movies

_____________ clerk in an international airport, it’s important to speak as many languages as possible

____ manager in a company is the worst possible position, because you get pressure from above and below

_________ women nowadays, they still don’t have the same opportunities as men

_________ personalities are almost as famous as film stars, they don’t get very much money at all

__________ attendants must be good looking, but this is actually the real reason they get the job

Check as a class or with the suggested answers.

Look at the whole sentences and discuss which you think are true.

Work together to write similar statements about other jobs, then see if people in other groups agree.

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Suggested answers

For every one hundred actors, only one or two become movie stars who get the lead in big movies

The tour guide told us everything about the history of the castle but I couldn’t remember any of it when I got home

Professional athletes nowadays get paid too much money for what is basically a hobby

Many women have to work as part time workers so they can pick their children up from school at 3 or 4 o’clock

Stockbrokers have such high pressure jobs that they often have to retire in their 30s or 40s. Luckily, they can make a lot of money before that time.

Using head hunters to steal the top staff or other companies is unfair business practice.

Even though security guards do a job that is similar to a police officer, they don’t get nearly as much money or respect

To be a check in clerk in an international airport, it’s important to speak as many languages as possible

Being an assistant manager in a company is the worst possible position, because you get pressure from above and below

Although there are many business women nowadays, they still don’t have the same opportunities as men

Although television personalities are almost as famous as film stars, they don’t get very much money at all

Job advertisements never say that flight attendants must be good looking, but this is actually the real reason they get the job

The worst part of being an airline pilot is always being away from home