Разговорные темы по английскому языку. Яшина Е.А. - 25 стр.

         1. Using the expressions, say what you think has happened / is happening
         Example: I am not working now; the baby’s due in 3 weeks. – She is on maternity
         leave.

            1.   I lost my job. They had to make cutbacks.
            2.   He’s enjoying life on a pension, although he is only 55.
            3.   One week it’s six-to-two, the next it’s nights.
            4.   They’ve made her General Manager as from next month!
            5.   I was late so often, I lost my job.
            6.   I get in at nine o’clock and go home at five.
            7.   Your trouble is you are obsessed with work!

         Now make a sentence for other verbs you have not used.

         Here are some professions (jobs that require considerable training and/ or
         qualifications) and trades (skilled manual jobs requiring on-the-job and other
         training).

         Lawyer, typist, dentist, hairdresser, mechanic, architect, priest, farmer, vet,
         teacher, librarian, physiotherapist, actor, broadcaster, police officer, accountant,
         engineer, scientist, surgeon, secretary, firefighter, civil servant, tai-
         lor/dressmaker, designer, builder, carpenter, plumber

         2. Whose job do these things belong to?
         Example: bucket, ladder, leather – window-cleaner

         1. board, overhead projector, chalk      4. make-up, script, microphone
         2. scalpel, mask, forceps               5. tractor, plough, barn
         3. tippex, filing cabinet, stapler      6. sewing machine, scissors, needle

         Collocations of words connected with work

         Work – to get, to find, to look for, to do.
         e. g. It is not easy to get / to find work here.
         I’d love to do that kind of work.
         A living – to make, to do for, to earn.
         e. g. What do you do for a living?
         It’s difficult to make a living as a freelance writer.

         A job – to offer, to take on, to have, to look for, to get, to find, to do.
         e.g. I’ve been offered a job in Paris. She is not prepared to take on this job (in-
         cludes the idea of “having personal resposibility”).
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