Who, where and what?
identified job, e.g. a doctor. Then ask the students to identify the job being shown in the pictures.
After they finish identified the job, the teacher ask another question to the students like, “Where does heshe work?”
hospital for the doctor, school for the teacher. Also ask other question that related with the picture and the job being
identified, for instance, “What does heshe use?” stethoscope, injection, bandage, etc. for the doctor, marker, dictionary, etc.
for the teacher. Teach any word that related from the key vocabulary to
students by mimicking or showing the pictures
2 Main activity
This stage requires the teacher to divide students into pairs and each pair are ask to draw three columns with the headings Who,
Where, and What.
Next step, the teacher gives each pair an envelope containing a set of profession cards. Then ask students to sort the pictures
into ten set of three: Who the worker; Where where they
work; What What they use.
When the pairs have sorted all the cards into set of three, ask them to write the words down in the columns based on the
profession, the workplace and the tools that help them in work. The teacher just monitors the students on their work and gives a
help if it is necessary.
When all the pairs have finished doing their work, the teacher should give pairs a score for each picture correctly named and
categorized.
Then choose one student from a pairs to come forward the class and pick a job card from the envelope while the rest of the class
should guess the job by asking what are heshe use for works
and where heshe goes to work.
3 Variation
This may also be used as a follow-up after doing the main activity or can be done in the next meeting.
In this step the students will choose one of their friends as a volunteer to start the game.
After that, the students will have a job card attach on their back and they need to guess what the job is written on their back.
The student can ask three yesno questions to the rest of their friends about the things they need for work, the work place and
their responsibility. Each student who can guess the job correctly will receive three
points, the pairs with the highest score will win the game.
4 Follow-up
For follow-up activity, the teacher places an envelope of pictures in front of the classroom. Then students take turns to
pick a picture from the envelope and the rest of the class have to identify what they have chosen by asking yesno questions,
e.g. “Is it a job? Do you work outdoors? Do you use computer?”, etc.
5 Homework
For the assignment, the teacher asks the students to write a paragraph about their family or friends describing what jobs
they do and where they work, e.g. “My mother is a dentist. She works in a dental surgery in the town center. My father is an
engineer. He wor ks in a factory”.
Write sentences using all the word illustrated on the sheet and add one more item which each person might use in their job,
e.g. “A nurse works in a hospital. She uses a thermometer and a watch”.