Students can practice learning new vocabulary for jobs then and now

1. Objetivo: El alumno relacionará las descripciones de los oficios como eran hechos antes y como son hechos
ahora utilizando nuevo vocabulario y reutilizando el que ya conocen.
I Instructions: Find the following jobs in the word search (I Instrucciones: Encuentra los
siguientes oficios en la sopa de letras).
Jobs
M S R Y L R A N T Q S R V C U M Q Z N K N Q B J Z
V Y O U W E C A Q W K J J W Y F N I A B W J Y W S
Y B T N D U I D I O H W R R W M G F V H O Z V U Z
D V A W Y L A T G P B D Q F B R T H Z V T Q I S E
D X R F O H C E W L O U W R Y P F F O G B Q K O B
X W E R K H R E I R C V B L E G R A P H I C Y W H
A P P Z B C Z D D W V A D Y Q H E Q S W U C G I L
J I O O V E B L O C R I T D T W S D C C N I L O X
B N A L E N Z E T S I N I H C A M I M A L U B Q Z
L R H K F T S W K E F N K N J Z L G L U B N K G Y
D L I B N E Y C N G Q S C K R F W R R B I Q R F O
J N A T T R M F U I W C F H P C V P J F U E S U R
W D K C G Z J J T V G Q K N H H L O X P N P J O Y
O N L M M C T V E F C S W J F X W Y W G X E H G A
M R M O I U N N O J G A B B U R R R I Y R L H H G
C G Z R P V H Y H J C K X X P X G S K S X R C A G
F G P M P U V M Z X H C H T J C E E O X O X T M M
G N Y X T U X B P R H E T S R D L L Q K E Y S R X
B R F N A O G J U L H H B B U I P O T Z A W Z F T
W S G I D B E A C M E L S Z U H F Q T M Q H I C C
G S B T U S L T S T L S Y Q D X B Q I H B R R V B
K U Y J T C C A S P U U D M W L Q U Y O E P A A I
R E P O E D T K Z Z Q R Q Y E W Q I B J B S U W R
H W O E G S E B O D W H H X Y E Q E L X B J U L R
Z V U R E W E J Z G V A F C X K N B M F O V C A M
CALL CENTER OPERATOR
CLOTHES DESIGNER
TOWN CRIER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
MACHINIST
PUBLISHER
SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
TAILOR

2. II Instructions: Read the descriptions about how jobs have changed through time and complete
the text using one of the jobs from the word search (make the necessary changes) (Lee las
descripciones acerca de como han cambiado los oficios a través del tiempo y completa el texto
usando uno de los oficios en la sopa de letras (haz los cambios necesarios).
This was then
Energy management is now performed at control centres where it is monitored and controlled by qualified
operators and engineers.
However, in the 1800s, lighting up hundreds of lights in a neighbourhood using a pole used to be done by a
1)________________.
In the past, most people could not read nor write so, how did they get the news?
Back in the 1800s a 2)________________ used to ring a hand bell to attract people´s attention in order to
inform them of local laws, advertisements, or market days.
These days, such information is communicated through mass media such as radio, TV, or the internet.
3)________________ are in charge of designing books, newspapers, magazines and many other publications
using specialized software. In this creative process, they lay out text, illustrations and photographs in
books.
In the old newspapers offices and publishing houses, the impression of books and newspapers was arranged
by 4)________________ and then pressed and inked.
Nowadays, asking for medical advice, buying travel tickets, performing bank operations among other
services by phone are provided by 5)________________ who help customers solve any problem they may
have.
In the past, callers could not make a phone call without using an operator.
When people picked up a phone to make a call, 6)________________ used to connect the caller´s line to the
receiver´s line with a plug and a cord from one hole on the switchboard to another.
How about fashion? In the past, men´s and women´s clothes were made to fit the customers’ size and taste
and this was done by a meticulous professional called 7)________________. Clothes are now made in huge
workshops on a production line operated by hired people.
Adaptado de: Rogers, Paul.(2013).Crossover Intro. University of Dayton Publishing.