47] Part-time Jobs [Reading & Writing] -Previous Exams

1. Read the text, then answer the questions below.

Part-time jobs for American students are very popular but usually begin during their high school days. Besides working in newspaper agencies, fast food restaurants and small cafeterias, a very popular job for a teenager in America is babysitting. This has its greatest appeal among teenage girls and a good babysitter can earn quite a bit if she is reliable, responsible and mature.

It is not an easy job and requires both social skills and general competence. A good babysitter should know how to change diapers and earn the respect of the children she is watching. She must be able to get the children ready for bed and keep an eye on them even while they are sleeping. Such a job often involves working on Friday and Saturday nights when many married couples like to spend the night going to a movie or the theater. On such occasions they will leave their children in the care of a dependable babysitter.

Other part-time jobs which are popular especially among young boys is managing a paper route or mowing the lawns of people in one's neighborhood. These jobs also require a sense of maturity and responsibility and can be a source of good income for a high school student. Young boys who run paper routes have to get up early in the morning to deliver the daily news regardless of the weather. This job has no holidays and requires the newspaper to be delivered every day without exception. In America there are no newspaper holidays.

In Japan, they don't like the idea of part-time jobs for high schools students, but in America, people think these jobs can be an opportunity to teach young people about work responsibility and respect for others. 

A. Write (T) for True and (F) for False.

1. A babysitter's job is not easy.  [      ]

2. A very popular job for a teenager in America is babysitting. [      ]

3. People in Japan think part-time jobs for teenagers are good. [       ]

4. In America, there are no newspaper holidays. [      ]

5. Young boys who run paper routes have to get up early. [      ]

2. Writing 

A. Write an essay about your favourite job.

B. Summarise the text in sentences of your own.