Reading: The World’s Most Unusual Jobs
The world’s most unusual jobs is a B1 reading text in the workplace-portrait genre. The text profiles unusual occupations — professional sleeper, panda nanny, golf-ball diver, ethical hacker, professional mourner, snake milker, body painter — and what makes each role unique. Learners read for role-specific detail, motivation, and workplace-vocabulary expansion.
This worksheet builds B1 reading comprehension through an unusual-jobs profile text.
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What’s inside:
- A B1 reading text (~450 words) profiling several unusual jobs
- Pre-reading vocabulary box with workplace and occupation terms
- Comprehension items: role-identification, detail-finding, motivation-inference
- Vocabulary-in-context: workplace vocabulary in unusual contexts
- Writing follow-up: describe an unusual job you’d find interesting or impossible
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Workplace vocabulary at B1 expands beyond standard professions — expert, specialist, technician, consultant, freelancer. Role-description language: responsible for, in charge of, deals with, handles, supervises. Salary and lifestyle vocabulary: six-figure salary, demanding hours, travel-intensive, niche field.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1, in intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) Reading. Part of the Work & Career Readings collection — the natural next step is Working From Home: A New Normal, which extends workplace reading into the remote-work dimension.
