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Social Practice of the Language To register information to elaborate a report about a job or profession Achievements • Gather information about jobs or professions. • Explore reports about activities. • Write information about jobs and professions to make a report. Product: Illustrated Report Academic and Educational Environment
1 With your team, look at the picture, and read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph.What is the text about? 110 119
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tests, as well as take di erent courses such as an emergency medical technician course to be able to help the people they rescue. Physicians study how the human body works and help people be healthy. There are di erent types of physicians depending on their specialty, for example, pediatricians or cardiologists. There are also general practitioners who don’t specialize in a particular area of medicine. If you want to become a physician, you must consider that the path is very long. First, they require 4 or 5 years of medical school, and specialists study 3 to 8 more years of residency. Normally they work in hospitals or they may also have a private practice. How do I make inferences? For information about this theme, go to page 119. 119
Professional athletes are paid for practicing their favorite sports and competing. But it is not easy to become one; you must know that it takes a lot of work. Athletes must train several hours a day with teammates and trainers. Another thing you must consider is that those who become full-time athletes have short careers because of the physical demands this job implies. Due to this, many athletes very often become coaches later in their careers. Fireghters are considered real life heroes as they help people who are in danger. Their duties range from putting out res and rescuing people to ghting wild res or managing hazardous materials. If you would like to become a reghter, you must study and prepare yourself physically. Normally, they must pass a series of written and physical
2 Read the text. Discuss with your partner who it is written for and why.
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