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Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs. : Reading read the text.

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Odd Jobs

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  1. Odd Jobs

  2. :Readingread the text How many jobs can you think of/ twenty/ tbirty/ no doubt the list includes doctor , lawyer, teacher, mechanic, plumber, and so on. The most dedicated career adviser could perbaps name a bundred. But there are over 500,000 jobs in existence to choose from! So, if you want to do well, bow can you decide the best way to make a living? This week, paul Hamilton takes a light-bearted look at some very ODD JOBS! The railways offer jobs of all orts, In Japan, 'Passenger Pushers' are employed full time by the railway companies in Tokyo.

  3.  During the rush hour, when hundreds of people are trying to get on the metro, they do their best to squeeze everyone into trains so that the doors will close properly. • Another technological advance that led to more jobs on the railways was the invention of chewing gum in 1928. When they finished their gum, many passengers just dropped it on the floor of the station and management at new york's grand central station had to do something about it. In the End, they employed a professional gum remover who had a lot of work to do- he collected.

  4. On average ,over three kilos of the sticky menace per day. • I suppose you could say he got attached to his job! • Escalators have provided inspiration for other rewarding career. When the first moving staircase was installed at harrods department store in london in 1898 , it made many people scared. Shop assistants were put at the top of the escalator with instructions to give water and smelling salts to customers! And in 1911, when earls court underground station installed its first escalators, many people were worried about

  5. Read the text again and answer these questions • why are 'passenger pushers' necessary on the metro in japan • Why does the writer describe chewing gum as a 'menace'? • Why did harrods employ special shop assistants on the escalator/ • Why were sewage works a problem in Berkshire? • Why was mohammad successful in brighton?

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