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Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lessonUpper-intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Four skills: Reading for gist and reading for specific information
Lesson Topic:
Weird professions that no longer exist
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Use and improve the two reading skills, reading for gist and reading for specific Gleaned an understanding of the text presented by employing two reading skills:
information to gain an understanding of the text, without having to understand 1. Reading for gist. Students will employ this skill by discussing the content of
every individual word. the text, creating a headline for the text and matching pictures to sentences.
2. Reading for specific information. Students will employ this skill by looking
for and listing professions mentioned within the text and then answering
questions about the professions.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Some students might have difficulty predicting what the text is about in the 1. I will attempt to elicit ideas by asking questions such as: “Do you know of
warmer activity. any professions that do not exist anymore?” “Do you think there are
2. Students might have difficulty with some of the vocabulary contained within professions that exist today, that might not exist in the future?”.
the text. For example, the word ‘digitalization’. They may only know this 2. Pre-teach vocabulary; attempt to elicit synonyms, provide example
word in its adjective form - digital. sentences for the students to see the vocab in context. Use CCQ’s and the
3. Students might become overwhelmed when first presented with the text, as CIC method to ensure understanding.
they might not understand each word and or grammar structure. 3. I will provide encouragement and elicit ideas throughout the lesson, making
it clear that the aim is to get a general understanding and not to understand
every individual word. Most of my activities are also done in groups, or
OCFB, which should help shy or uncertain students.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
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, Weird professions that no longer exist
During the evolution of many civilizations the world over, people have played many different roles in their societies, or in other words, have had various jobs to do, in
accordance to the requirements of the time they were alive in. Whether forced or willingly, almost every person in history was employed. According to the statistics
provided by the EU recently, 26.2 million people around the world were unemployed in 2014.
This is a big number, but it is only 0.3% of the entire global population. Jobs change daily, mostly due to technological development and many job positions have been lost,
and undoubtedly, many new ones will emerge in the future. Although there are some strange and weird jobs in the world today, they are nothing compared to some of the
professions which now no longer exist.
Some 35 years ago, telecommunications were far less developed than today, so long distance calls were manually connected. These connections were made by so-called
switchboard operators, a job position mostly done by women, and lost due to digitalization. What’s more, in the 1970’s, a job existed which required the floating and
guiding of logs down the rivers, from the place they were cut to the processing sites. This profession was called log driving, and log drivers were later replaced by
technology and transport infrastructure.
At the same time, elevators were run by elevator operators, another long lost profession. These men were trained to use levers and machinery in order to run the
elevators, and are today without a job, also due to technological development. In the 1960’s, 10 years prior to this, when food quality standards were created, people were
employed to taste the food before it went public, all in order to ensure it was safe for consumption.
Earlier in the 20th century, in the 1940’s, bowling alleys were operated by young boys called pinsetters, who were employed to set up the pins for the bowlers. Today, the
bowling alleys use automatic mechanisms to do the pinsetter’s job. In the same manual fashion, tracks for railroads were laid by men, also a profession lost due to the
advancement of machinery.
In the 1930’s, before radars existed, their job was done by “listeners”, people who used listening devices to identify the sounds of approaching airplanes. In the 1920’s,
there was an extremely dangerous profession called ice cutting. These people were sawing up ice from frozen lakes, which was later used for food preservation. A much
safer profession from the same time was that of the newspaper reader or what was sometimes referred to as the factory workers entertainer. These people would read to
the workers doing manual jobs, and entertain them while doing their daily tasks.
Passage taken from: Nikola Simonovski, Dec 10, 2017. Weird professions that no longer exist, the vintage news. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/10/weird-
professions/?chrome=1
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