Students explore demanding jobs and workplace risks. They compare working conditions, discuss skills and responsibilities, and explain opinions about danger and reward using evidence from the readings.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: commercial, salary, hypothermia, fatality.
Grammar: Build noun + of + noun phrases, such as “the captain of the ship.”.
Word study: Silent g in gn words, including gnat, gnaw, gnome, and gnu.
Reading & speaking: Read about commercial crab fishing; discuss the challenges of dangerous jobs and role-play a conversation on a fishing boat.