Lesson 7. Odd Jobs. All in A Day's Work
Lesson 7. Odd Jobs. All in A Day's Work
Lesson 7. Odd Jobs. All in A Day's Work
1. PRE-READING
A. Discuss.
- What is your ideal job? What are the reasons for your choice?
- Can you think of any unusual jobs?
- Do you know any people with strange jobs?
B. Vocabulary
Read the text quickly without paying any attention to the missing
sentences. What are the three jobs described in it?
ODD JOBS
Rodeo clowns are an essential part of the sport of bull riding. During the
competition, a cowboy gets onto a bull, which does its best to buck him off. The
cowboy who can stay on the longest is the winner. But sooner or later, all of
them fall or jump off the bull. 2. G. To do this, they wear colourful, baggy
clothes, and may run in front of the bull or throw something at it.
Richard Beamish also works behind the scenes. He's a professional actor,
but you won't ever see his face. Richard is a voice actor - one of the people who
give their voices to characters in cartoons, video games and commercials. Voice
40 actors use their voices to help create a unique and interesting character.
For the past three years, Richard has provided the voice of the character
Twinkle in the children's television show Space Club. 6.C. Most voice actors
don't get hired to do cartoons right away - they need to get experience doing less
glamorous work such as recordings for commercials. However, this isn't the
case with Richard. 'The director gave me a description of 50 the character, a
sketch of how he looked, and a piece of script. I created his voice from that and
they liked what they heard!'
Richard loves the experience of recording the shows. 'We start at nine in
the morning. I try 55 to read the script quickly before we start, but I have been
playing Twinkle for so long I know exactly how he should sound. We sit in a
circle with our mikes, and then the silliness begins.'
Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the
sentences A-G the one which best fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra
sentence which you do not need to use.
A. He compares the prints found at a crime scene with those in the police
database.
G. The rodeo clowns distract the bull long enough so that the cowboy can
get away safely.