Lesson 52.

1. Vocabulary

Put these jobs into the appropriate categories.

actor	astronaut	chef	farmer	mechanic
architect	baker	coach	hotel manager	stockbroker
artist	banker	dentist	lawyer	zoologist

Jobs for people who:

……….. don’t like to wear suits or formal clothing

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………. are very organized.

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… like unpredictable days.

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… love people.

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…. want to work with their hands.

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2 . Predict

Skim the three readings and make predictions.

1. Who are the Internet police?

2. What does a hurricane hunter do?

3. What kind of training do you need to be a disc jockey?

4. Which articles have quotations from people working in the field?

3 . Reading

Read the articles.

READING 1

The internet police

You’re using the computer at work. After a while, you decide to take a break and go shopping – on the Internet. But when you click on your favourite shopping Web site, there’s a big red n-hand on the screen. At the bottom of the screen, you see a warning from your company about unauthorized Web surfing.

So, who put it there? People like Ida Smith. Ms Smith is a content specialist for a Web-filtering company. She spends her days surfing the Web. She is looking for sites that employers do not want their employees to visit. Her specific task is to find shopping, travel, and gambling sites. These sites are some of the places where employees may waste time at work. (Other content specialists look for sites on sex, drugs, and violence. There are 39 categories in all.) She also scans white lists – approved sites for children – to make sure that they have no links to naughty sites.

Special spidering programs actually do most of the work. These programs can search millions of pages in just a few minutes. But people like Ms Smith provide a human review to make sure that pages are not blacklisted or white-listed by mistake.

Ms Smith enjoys the work. “I like spending time on the Internet. I feel like I’m in touch with what people think and what they’re doing.” She says. However, she admits often taking a couple of aspirin when she gets home. “All that surfing gives me a headache,” she explains.

READING 2