Descripción de la tarea
1 - Here you have a text about the first job Nicholas had.
Read the text and answer in couple of lines, using your own words, the following questions that will help you to continue with the task.
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My First Job
By Nicholas Klacsanzky
Everyone’s first job is special. There are a couple of reasons for this: the experience is burned in one’s memory, it gives you the practice needed to fulfil other positions, and it teaches you about the value of money.
When I was about sixteen years old, I wanted to buy albums from my favourite bands, but I did not have any money. I had to find work in order to purchase the music I wanted.
So, I inquired as to who could give me work around town. My neighbourhood, Twin Maples, had enough people, especially elderly people, that needed help in their yards. I went to the oldest person I knew in my neighbourhood, Mrs. Hudson. She was over eighty years old, and could not tend her garden anymore. She had flowers, a grass lawn, and some tomato plants. I knocked on her door, building up enough courage to ask her for work. She answered that indeed she needed help in her garden.
My first job was to pull out weeds. I got down on my knees with foam protectors and began to pull out weeds one by one in her front yard and backyard. After this tedious task, I mowed her lawn—front and back. That was it for my first day, and it took me about two hours. I asked her how much I would get paid, and she said, “I will give you $5 an hour. I don’t know how much people are paid these days, anyways.” It was less than I thought I would get paid, but at least I had a job.
1. Why is your first job special? Answer using your own words and experience.
2. How did Nicholas find a job?
3. Why did he ask Mrs. Hudson for a job?
4. Was he happy with his first pay? Why?
Now it is time for you to do the production task. Write a composition (150-200 words) about your first job and compare it with Nicholas’s one.
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In order to do this composition, take into account the following tips:
- Make sure you revise the Past Simple and continuous tense. We give you these links where you can practice them: Past Simple. Past continuous.
- Remember to compare the two jobs.
- You will also need to revise linking words .
- Make sure that you give your composition an introduction and a conclusion.
- You have to include the following words, structures and expressions in your composition:
2 Irregular past simple verbs / 1 Past continuous / 1 negative sentence / 1 interrogative sentence / 1 comparative or superlative sentence |
Write here the sentences where you used the structures:
- Irregular past simple verb
- Irregular past simple verb
- Past continuous
- negative sentence
- interrogative sentence
- comparative or superlative sentence
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