Jobs & Tools

What your child learns

• Naming 12 familiar jobs: doctor, dentist, firefighter, farmer, cook, teacher, builder, mail carrier, pilot, artist, police officer, hairdresser
• Matching jobs and tools: stethoscope, fire extinguisher, tractor, frying pan, scissors...
• Knowing where people work: hospital, school, building site, airport, post office...
• Knowing who can help: a dentist for a toothache, firefighters when there is a fire
• Seeing that every job is done by men and women of every skin color

How to play

1. Press "Play now", listen to the question and tap the right picture. On a computer, keys 1–4 work too.
2. First your child picks a tool for a job ("What does a doctor use?"), then the job for a tool and the place where a job is done.
3. Later come helper questions: "Who do we call when there is a fire?". A wrong pick gets locked and shows its name.
4. After a right answer the game says a short fact, like "A doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to your heart".

For parents

• When you are out, ask "What job does that person do? What do they use?" when you see a mail carrier, a builder or a traffic officer.
• Every tool in the game belongs to just one job, and tools that could start an argument (a tailor's scissors, a toothbrush next to a doctor, a whistle next to a PE teacher) are never shown together.
• The workers change skin tone and hairstyle every round, so your child sees that any job can be done by anyone.
• The game does not mention emergency numbers. When your child is ready, teach your local ones: in Vietnam, 114 is for fire and rescue and 115 is for an ambulance. Remind them to call only in a real emergency, and that the first thing to do in a fire is to get away and tell a grown-up.