Different jobs

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 426.

JOB, OCCUPATION, PROFESSION

A journalist is interviewing Mr. Williams about his job.

WHAT IS YOUR JOB? (WHAT DO YOU DO?)

JOURNALIST: What's your job, Mr. Williams?

MR. Williams: I'm a writer.

J: That's interesting. What sort of thing do you write?
Mr. W.: Well, uhm, articles for newspapers and magazines, or... Film reviews, you know, uhm, and occasionally some fiction, poems and short stories.

J: Do you find it a very demanding job?

Mr. W.: (sigh) Well, yes and no. It's very nice to work at home of course, and, and have the choice of when to work. But I work long hours at home, usually the hours or more away, and it's very lonely sometimes, sitting in front of a typewriter.

J: What are you working on at the moment?

Mr. W.: Well, actually I'm doing something very different from my usual work. I'm writing a biography of Leonard Benson, the jazz musician.

J: So I suppose you're spending a lot of time together.

Mr. W.: (laugh) Well, no, in fact. He lives in the States. I'm doing a lot of research, naturally. He is visiting this country at the moment, and I have an appointment with him, but we haven't met very often.

J: Well, thank you, Mr. Williams. That was very interesting and good luck with the book.

Mr. W.: Not at all.

From the list of jobs given below choose those connected with manual labour and with creative activity.

1 miner 6 postman

2 musician 7 bus driver

3 artist 8 business owner

4 manager 9 farmer

5 cleaner 10 reporter