The topic explained
LESSON 3A READING AND VOCABULARY
- □ I can identify specific details in an article.
Dreams and the career chart
1 SPEAKING In pairs, look at the chart on the opposite page and discuss the questions.
The article: dreams at every age
Dreams shape your future 2 Read the article and compare with your ideas in Exercise 1.
- envisage
- scope for
- covet
- a pipe dream
- calling
Gap-fill from the article
3 Complete the sentences with 1–3 words from the article in each gap.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s parents who young children want to copy when it comes to ambitions for their ___ .
Characters in ___ sometimes provide role models for children not yet at school.
At primary school, we start to see factors such as success and ___ play a more significant role in the dream job.
However, primary schoolers’ employment goals are usually divorced from reality, with the likelihood of them becoming an actor or astronaut being ___ .
By secondary school, ideas for how to make money have usually become more realistic with an individual’s characteristics playing more of a role in their choices together with their ___ .
In recent years, teens have been much more likely to view making money from the internet as increasingly ___ .
Swap in the highlighted words
4 Replace the underlined words and phrases with the correct forms of their highlighted synonyms from the article.
This was the job he had [desired] since his youth.
I’d love to work at a space centre, but it’s [impossible to realise].
Once she started working as a nurse, she knew it was her [dream profession].
Not many people [imagine] doing the same job for life.
[There are a lot of opportunities for] being creative in this job.
Prepositions from the box
5 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions from the box.
I’m apt ___ forget people’s names if I’m introduced to too many at once.
You can succeed _ something difficult if you really set your mind _ it.
Watching these cartoons is really rolling ___ the years for me!
Many jobs that exist today are destined ___ disappear when the roles are taken over by robots.
I coveted that job and was doing my best to get it so my boss was very supportive ___ my promotion.
Reflect on your own dreams
6 REFLECT | Society In pairs, discuss the questions.
WHAT DO KIDS TODAY WANT TO BE?
| Age | Job |
|---|---|
| 1–3 | ballerina 18.6% classical musician 14.3% doctor 11.4% |
| 4–7 | astronaut 9.8% veterinarian 9.8% doctor 7.5% |
| 8–11 | scientist 13.7% veterinarian 9.8% artist 7.8% |
| 12–14 | doctor 10.6% engineer 10.6% scientist 9.1% |
| 15–17 | engineer 12.5% teacher 10.7% actor 7.1% |
| 18 or older | teacher 12.4% writer/author 7.8% doctor 7% |
