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Description:
This worksheet accompanies the Dirty Jobs Season One episode "Sewer Technician". It has pre-viewing discussion questions, listening comprehension questions for each segments, vocabulary, and follow-up activities. WARNING -- This episode can be a little disgusting -- I used it with 8th grade boys, and they loved it. Not sure if girls would be as enthusiastic.


Sewers!

Warm-up: Discuss

1.  What are sewers? Where do you find them?

2.  What did cities / towns do before they had sewers?

3.  Do you think any animals might live in sewers? If so, what kind?

Pre-Watching

Before you watch, guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

1.  Toilets are connected to sewers. T / F

2.  Nowadays sewers are cleaned and repaired by machines. T / F

3.  The sewers in San Francisco are over 100 years old. T / F

4.  San Francisco’s sewers are large enough to walk in. T / F

5.  When sewers break, they can make a big mess inside people’s houses. T / F


Sewers!

Part 1 / Sewer Inspector

sewer / sewage / waste / inspect
cockroach / repair

Vocabulary:

1.  What are they doing in the beginning of the show?

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2.  Why do you think they need to inspect the sewers?

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3.  How old is San Francisco’s sewer system?

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4.  What might happen if the sewers aren’t fixed?

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5.  Write three adjectives to describe this job.

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Part 2 / Fixing the Sewers

Vocabulary / mud / put on / mix / spread / bucket / dry

1.  What are they doing? Why?

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2.  Match the two pieces of the sentences and then write the order the workers did them (1, 2, 3... )

____ / Mix / the mud on the wall
____ / Put / the mud
____ / Bring / the bucket down the hole
____ / Put / for the mud to dry
____ / Wait / the mud in the bucket

Part 3 / Cleaning up the Mess

Vocabulary / explode / disgusting / clean up / take out / basement
clean / throw out / contaminated / mold / sack / scrub

1.  What city are they in?

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2.  What happened to the basement?

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3.  What do the men have to do?

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4.  Why do they have to clean the air?

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5.  Write the order the workers do the job.

____ / scrub the air
____ / take down the walls
____ / take out the things from the basement
____ / wash the floor
____ / clean the toilet
____ / clean up the mud in the basement
____ / throw out the dirty things
____ / clean the walls
____ / put away the machines

6.  Would you use that bathroom again?

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Opinions!

1.  What was the most interesting part of the show? Why?

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2.  What was the most boring? Why?

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3.  What question would you like to ask the men who do these jobs?

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4.  Would you want to have any of these jobs? Why / why not?

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Follow-up:

Choose one of the following activities to do.

1.  Complete the compare / contrast diagram (circles). Then write two sentences comparing the two parts of the video and three sentences contrasting the two parts.

2.  Draw a comic strip retelling one of the three sections of the Dirty Jobs show that we watched.

3.  Imagine you’re Mike Rowe, the man on the show. Write a short paragraph, telling what your day was like for one of the two jobs he did.

4.  Take 10 of the new vocabulary words. Write your own sentence for each word.

Vocabulary / explode / disgusting / clean up / take out / basement
clean / throw out / contaminated / mold / sack / scrub
sewer / waste / inspect / cockroach / repair / mud
put on / mix / spread / bucket / dry

Dirty Jobs Sewers!