Class 16 · Summer 2026

Work History

Job words · Professions · was / were · Time words · The employment form

Eight jobs with a name on every picture, sixteen professions, the past of the verb be, the words that say when, and Ana's work history on the citizenship form.

Grammar in this class:Was, were Time words

Words

Sheet Job Words Eight jobs, eight people, a number and a name on every picture. Then sixteen professions: doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect. I was a ___ before. Now I am a ___.

Game Job Sprint A person at work appears. Type the job before the clock runs out. Thirty-two cards. A cook is a cook, never a cooker.

Grammar

Sheet I Am · I Was The same three sentences now and before. Only the small word changes: am, is, are become was and were. Every example in your language.

Builder Build It: Then and Now Choose the small word for the subject and the time. Both can be wrong, and the time word decides.

Game Last Sprint You see week. You type last week. Last, yesterday, in, or from … to, before time runs out.

Read

Reading Ana's Work History Ana's jobs from 2021 to now, all in was and were. Then fill in the employment part of the citizenship form for her.

Listen

Listening The Job Interview A job interview. Ms. Vance is asking Ana about her work history. Listen first with the script hidden, then read along, answer, and write the missing words.