Chat Time 6 - Summer Jobs

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Questions

1. What are the duties of each job?
   a. A tutor is responsible for teaching and looking after primary students. The duties of a waiter include taking orders, serving food and drinks, and clearing tables.
   b. The duties of a tutor involve teaching and looking after primary students while those of a waiter include taking orders, serving food and drinks, and clearing up tables.

2. What are the possible difficulties of each job?
   a. A tutor may deal with students who are naughty or unwilling to learn. A waiter has to deal with difficult customers at times.
   b. A tutor may be unable to manage students who are unruly and unmotivated. A waiter has to work long hours and handle impolite customers.

3. Which job would you like to choose and why?
   a. I would like to be a tutor because teaching children is fun and rewarding.
   b. I prefer to be a tutor because I’m fond of teaching children and it’s a rewarding job.

Individual Response

1. Would you like to work during the summer holiday?
   a. Definitely not. I want to have a good rest and travel to a foreign country.
   b. I wish I could but I need to take summer courses and spend a lot of time doing school assignments.

2. What are some of the advantages of having a summer job?
  a. I can earn some money from a summer job and learn more about society.
  b. Benefits of having a summer job include learning money management and responsibility. I can also learn more about society so as to keep up with the outside world.

3. What type of person would be best suited to work as a waiter?
  A waiter needs to be friendly, hardworking and responsible. He must have good customer service skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

4. What kind of person would be best suited to work as a tutor?
   A tutor should have a personality that is warm and caring. Being patient, understanding and friendly are also important qualities.

5. What would be your ideal summer holiday?
   My ideal summer holiday would be spending two weeks in a faraway land with my family. The location would be beautiful with sandy beaches and green hills.