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Work SEE ALSO
▸ ▸ Farming p.98
▸ ▸ Inventions

Work provides people with money to pay for the things pp.136–137
they need, such as food and somewhere to live. There are ▸ ▸ Law p.145
lots of different types of work you can do. Many jobs need ▸ ▸ Medicine p.160

special skills that you must train for. Some people stay ▸ ▸ Money p.169
doing the same work all their lives. Others learn new skills ▸ ▸ School
pp.272–273
and change jobs.

Pilot flying Farm workers
Jobs a plane Farmers use land to grow and
The type of work a person does is Factory workers sell crops like wheat. They
Workers in factories produce
called their job. Different jobs require everything from washing raise animals such as cows,
sheep, and chickens.
different skills. People might work on machines to cars and phones.
a building site, in a hospital, or at Machines and computers help
them to do this work.
a school.

Truck driver

Office workers Construction workers
Some people work in Construction workers build new
buildings called offices. buildings and repair old ones. They
Computer coder They do different jobs build roads, dig ditches for pipes
and often use computers, Teacher and cables, and lay train tracks.
phones, and books. Teachers help young
people learn new
Lawyer skills and information
at school.

Help center

Street sweeper Bus Scientists
driver Scientists invent new products Police
and medicines. They test
everything from bridges to
how healthy your blood is.

Shop assistants Creative work Medical staff Market traders
Shop workers sell Some people use their Doctors, nurses, and surgeons Many people sell
things to people in imaginations to create in clinics and hospitals try to fruit, vegetables,
stores, such as food, websites, design books cure you if you’re ill. Carers plants, flowers, and
clothes, shoes, books, and posters, and make look after people who need household goods in
and music. music and films. extra help. market stalls.

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