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10 Up the ladder
- VOCABULARY Work-life balance idioms and collocations, qualities of a leader, idioms related to working life and communication, personality adjectives
- □ I can tell the difference between formal and informal registers when talking about work.
LESSON 1A VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING
Where does your day go? What job could you do?
What jobs can a teenager get?
3 Read an advert for an internship. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of this job?
ACTIVE VOCABULARY | Register
Eight collocations for balancing work and life
4 10.1 Look at collocations 1–8 and discuss their possible meaning. Then listen and check.
What does 1 constant connectivity mean?
What does 2 draw a line (between something) mean?
What does 3 juggle (all) the unremitting demands mean?
What does 4 strike the right balance mean?
What does 5 maintain a healthy work/life balance mean?
What does 6 strive for something mean?
What does 7 grasp the significance mean?
What does 8 pay dividends mean?
5 10.2 Listen to the rest of the programme and answer the questions.
1 What did Holly and Bradley do during their internships and what were their duties?
2 Were they satisfied with their internships?
Say why.
Six gaps, six working-life idioms
6 10.2 Listen again and complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs from the box.
1 I got to ___ the ropes…
2 It really wasn’t what I’d ___ up for.
3 Sometimes I just felt like ___ it a day.
4 It was the way it ___ on my personal life that was the problem.
5 I know everyone is under considerable pressure to ___ targets at work.
6 There were permanent staff there _ their socks off trying to _ their work demands.
Formal, neutral or informal?
7 Read Active Vocabulary. Then look at the sentences and decide what register they are: formal (F), neutral (N) or informal (I).
1 □ Give me a call.
2 □ Online marketing knowledge is not required.
3 □ Should you decide to continue in our employment, we may offer you a long-term position in the firm.
4 □ My dad subscribes to the theory that employees should always talk about what’s bothering them.
5 □ It was the way it intruded on my personal life that was the problem.
6 □ I got to learn the ropes and it gave me a real taste for the job.
