Employment ; units 69-70-71-72
Unit 69 : Work : duties, pay and conditions
What do you do? I´m a banker, an engineer, a builder …
What´s your job ? I work in a bank …
What do you do for a living ? I work for Union Bank, i´m employed by, Self-employed =I work for myself
Responsibilities = your duties/what you have to do
Daily routine = what you do every day
What does that involve? = what do you do in your job ?
In charge of/responsible for
Factory = the place where a product is made
Deal with/handle
Complaints = take all necessary action when customers are unhappy
To run = i´m in control of it/ I manage it
To go to/ attend
Meetings
Clients= people I do business with, who pay for my service
Advise= give them help and my opinion
Involves travelling (ing après involve)
Working hours
Nine-to-five job = regular working hours
Do flexitime= they can start work earlier or finish later
Do shiftwork= work at different times
Work/do overtime= work extra hours for more money
Paid= receive money
Salary= every month
To earn/ make money
Minimum wage = amount decided by the government
Get- weeks´paid holiday
Get sick pay = pay when you are ill
Income= in a year
Income tax
Units 70: jobs
Manual jobs: are jobs where you work with your hands, and these are all
Skiled = need a lot of training
Bricklayer= builds walls with bricks
Carpenter = makes things using wood
Plumber = installs and repairs water pipes
Electrician= installs and repairs electrical things
Mechanic= repairs cars
Architect= designs buildings
Lawyer= represents people with legal problems
Engineer= plans the buildings of roads, bridges, machines etc
Accountant= controls the financial situation of people and companies
University lecturer= teaches in a university
Stockbroker (on the stock market)= buys and sells stocks and shares
Sales /personnel manager= responsible for sales or personnel staff
Doctors nurses surgeons = specialist doctors who operate on people work in hospitals
GPs = general practitioners- doctors who treat people with general problems
Dentist
Vets= animal doctors
Surgeries
To treat= give medical help advice medicines
To look after= care for/take care of
To join/went into (army)
Soldier= in the army
Sailor= in the navy
Pilot= in the air force
Police officer/policeman/policewoman= in the police force
Firefighter/fireman= in the fire brigade
Units 71: the career ladder
To apply for= wrote an official request for
A trainee= a very junior person in a company
To not earn much= have a low salary
In-house training= the company gave her help and advice to become better
To go on/do several training courses
Prospects= future possibilities in the job
A manager/boss
To have a good pay rise= more money every week/month
To be promoted= was given a higher position with more money and responsibility
To be in charge of= the boss of
Employees= workers
Under her= under her control
Employer= person who employs
Employee= worker
Trainer= person who gives training
Trainee= person who receives training
A fresh challenge= a new exciting situation
A career change= to work in a different kind of job
To work abroad= work in another country
To resigne= officially told the company she was leaving her job; also quit
To look for another job
Involve= include
To dismiss/sacked= told her to leave
Unemployed/out of work= without a job
Part-time job= working only part of the day or week
To retire= stopped working completely
Units 72: in the office
Calendar
Keyboard
Monitor
Filing cabinet
Computer
Desk
Diary
Calculator
Noticeboard
Drawers
Files
Wastepaper basket
Briefcase
To produce= make/manufacture
The factory
To work at a computer
To type letters
To send lots of emails
Invoices= paper showing products sold and the money to pay
To do quite a lot of paperwork/filing reports= putting them in a file/filing cabinet
To show people round the factory
To make appointments
Meetings
To attend= go to
The agenda= list of things to discuss at a meetings
To take the minutes= write down everything that is said during the meeting
The photocopier is broken
The printer isn´t working
To run out of= the paper is finished
The computer´s down= not working
Colleagues= people you work with
Is off= not at work loads of work= a lot of work
NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Units 43 : the physical world
Sun, stars, moon, northern hemisphere, north pole, south pole, earth, southern hemisphere, equator
Into space= the area outside the earth where the stars and planets are
Round the world
On earth
In many parts of the world
In the world
Time difference between
3 hours behind London
9 hours ahead of us in Sidney
The continent asia
Country as china
Flew over the Atlantic Ocean
Lake Como
The Nile river
To dive in the Red Sea
The Sahara Desert
The Amazon rainforest
To climb Mont Everest
Elba is an island
Disaster= is when something terrible happens
Earthquake (destroy)= many homes are so badly damaged, they don´t exist
Hurricane (hit)= reach Florida today with great force
Flood (to drow)= died from being under water
Volcano/ volcanic eruption (active volcanoes)
Units 44: weather
Sun, sunny
Cloud, cloudy fog, foggy
Heat, hot
Wind, windy
Ice, icy
Shower, showery
Humidity, humid
The sun came out= appeared
Thick fog= bad fog
Light rain=raining a bit (drizzle)
Heavy rain= raining a lot (pour)
Shower= rain for a short period of time
Boiling(= very hot)-hot-warm-not very warm-cold(=chilly)-freezing(=very cold)
How hot does it get in the summer ?
It can reach about 35 degrees
How cold does it get in the winter ?
It often goes below 0= (zero)
Breeze – wind - strong wind – gale – hurricane
Heatwave
Thunderstorm
Humid= when the air feels wet
Thunder and lightning
Heavy rain
Units 45: animals and insects
To keep pets= own and look after domestic animals that live with people
Mice= singular: mouse
Pets and farms animals: Rabbits, goldfish, sheep, lamb(young), goat, pig
Wild animals: in a zoo of in the wild= living free
Camel, bear, tiger, leopard, gorilla, elephant, lion, monkey, zebra, giraffe
In danger of extinction= they may not exist much longer
To protect= make sure they stay safe
Insects: bee, ant, mosquito, butterfly, fly, spider
In the water, in the air and on the ground
Creatures= living things
To move along the ground
Whale, shark, eagle, snail,snake
Units 66: life in the country
To grow up= spent my childhood
Rural area= an area in the country >< urban area
A remote area= an area far from towns
Cottage= a type of house, often small, you find in the country
The woods= an area of trees like a small forest
Village= a place smaller than a town
I love being in the country , j´aime être dans la nature
Tree, leaves, branches, plants, grass, soil, roots, flowers
In the country/countryside
Agriculture/farming
To grow crops = wheat, apples, and potatoes
On a farm
Woods, river, tractor, field, valley, village, footpath, gate, farmhouse, fence
The best thing about living in the country is that :
-peace and quiet = common phrase to describe a place that is quiet and calm
-to get fresh air = air outside a building or town which is clean
To be surrounded by lovely scenery
-the pace of life is lower = the amount of activity in life
The worst thing about living in the country is that:
-not much nightlife
-no public transport = buses and trains
-you don´t get many shops
-not much privacy = private life
Units 88: global problems
The environment = air, water and land around us
To destroy = you damage something so badly it does not exist any more
To pollute= make the air dirty
To cut down rainforests
global