Work

1) Who does what? Try to guess the job, you can check by clicking on the blue line.

1. .................builds walls

2. ................makes things using wood

3. ................fits and repairs water pipes, bathrooms

4. ................fits and repairs electrical things

5. ................repairs cars

6. ................designs buildings

7. ................ represents people with legal problems, defends people’s rights in court

8. .................. does dangerous things instead of an actor so that the actor can avoid injury

9. ..................teaches at university

10. ..................controls the financial situation of people and companies

11. ...................writes news reports for newspapers and magazines

12. ....................changes the colours of houses, rooms, etc.

13. .....................works under the ground extracting coal

14. .....................is a shopkeeper that cuts and sells meat

15. ...................... arranges people’s holidays and journeys

2) Which of these are considered professions (require specialized educational training and qualifications) and which are trades (manual jobs requiring a particular skill or craft) and unskilled jobs?

Professions:

Trades:

Unskilled jobs:

3) What do you do for living? What's your job? What do you do?

· I work for Fiat. (= company)

· I'm a teacher/lawyer/plumber.

· I work in a bank/marketing. (=place/area)

4) Look at words and phrases. Try to describe your duties/working hours/conditions/attitudes etc.

· my duties/responsibilities are = what my job involves

· I'm in charge of = I'm responsible for

· I deal with people/I advise clients

· I visit/meet/see clients

· I do a lot of paperwork

· I send invoices (to customers)

· I show (visitors) around

· I arrange meetings

· I attend meetings = I go to meetings

· I type reports

· I  make phone calls

· I work at a computer

· I sign contracts

· I run my own business

· I do freelance work = I am a freelance journalist, photographer etc. = I'm not employed by an organization but I'm paid for each piece of work

· to do an internship (on-the-job training for white-collar workers)

· I work nine-to-five = regular day work

· I am on flexi-time = flexible working hours

· I do shift-work = I work shifts = I work unsocial hours

·I don't like working/doing overtime = working extra hours

· I need a fresh challenge = a new exciting situation

· to be fired = to be laid off = to be dismissed   to get the sack = to be sacked

· to be between jobs = currently unemployed

· to be on income support = to be on the dole

· to be a workaholic = love work too much

· to be promoted = to get a higher position

· to take an early retirement = retire at e.g. 55

· to be on maternity leave = to take maternity leave (stay at home before and after the birth of a baby)

· to be on sick leave = to take sick leave (stay at home due to some illness)

· salary is paid every month = the money you earned sent to your bank account

· the total amount of money you receive in a year is called income and a part of it is paid to the government (income tax)