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Adjectives used to describe positive character traits for the workplace.
| ambitious | confident | conscientious | easy-going | hard-working |
| honest | loyal | methodical | motivated | reliable |
| punctual | responsible | dynamic | cheerful | charming |
| communicative | flexible | sociable | creative | resourceful |
EXERCISE
👉 Guess the job; which job I´m thinking about?
- In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic, and sociable.
- In this job, you have to work with young and old people
- In this job, you have to take orders
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💬
- What would you regard as a ‘good job’?
- How easy is it for people to find a good job these days?
- Make a list of well-paid jobs and compare it with a classmate. (page 60 Empower. B It´s essential to have the right qualifications). Oral intralinguistic mediation exercise.
- Grammar: Willingness, obligation, and necessity.
Vocabulary:work
💬 Discuss the employment terms and conditions below.
1 What type of job would each be suitable or unsuitable for?
2 What advantages would there be for the
employer/employee?
3 Which do you think are the three most motivating ideas?
Terms and Conditions
• four ‘duvet days’ – four days a year when the
employee can miss work without giving a reason
• unlimited holidays (provided they don’t impact on
the business)
• three-monthly performance review
• performance related pay
• zero hours contracts ( contracts where the hours are
decided week by week)
• equal paternity and maternity leave
• equal pay for 16-year-olds and older new employees
• free sports facilities at the workplace
• flexitime
• unlimited free healthy snacks and drinks
👉TASK
b Imagine that you ran a business. Which one is it? What terms and conditions would you have for your employees? Why?
b Imagine that you ran a business. Which one is it? What terms and conditions would you have for your employees? Why?
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1. Working remotely is more productive than working in the office.
2. Most people would like to work remotely if they could.
3. If I worked from home, I would miss my colleagues.
THERE ARE SOME PROMPTS BELOW YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE.
- YOUR IDEAL JOB
- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF WORKING FROM HOME
- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING SELF-EMPLOYED
👉LISTENING
Listen and do the exercises in the link below:
Listening:how to break into the music industry
👂LISTENING EXTRA
👀 READING EXTRA https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/what-im-really-thinking
Listen and do the exercises in the link below:
Listening:how to break into the music industry
👉WRITTEN MEDIATION
Watch the following videos and take notes on key information to do the task below. You can use subtitles to understand all the important information.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRISON OFFICER
The British authorities have done some videos with testimonies from different prison officers in which they explain what is involved in their job. You have a friend who’s trying to decide which career path he/she should follow.
Write an email explaining to your friend why this could be the perfect job for him/her and encouraging him/her to apply for it (about 150 words).
👂LISTENING EXTRA
👀 READING EXTRA https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/what-im-really-thinking
7 comments:
In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic and sociable: engineer, psychologist, volunteer.
In this job, you have to work with young and old people: teacher, doctor, nurse.
In this job, you have to take orders: waiter/waitress
o In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic and sociable. (Waiter)
o In this job, you have to work with young and old people (Teacher )
o In this job, you have to take orders ( Nurse)
o In this job you have to save life’s
o In this job you have to take care of animals.
- In this job, you have to be fine-looking
- In this job, you have to speak clearly and articulately
- In this job, you have to bring people up-to-date
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o In this job you have to save life’s (doctor)
o In this job you have to take care of animals. (veterinarian)
- In this job you have to sentence criminals.
- In this job you have to make people feel more beautiful when they look themselves in the mirror.
In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic and sociable: Instructor in a summer camp
In this job, you have to work with young and old people: Carer
In this job, you have to take orders: Waiter
In this job, you have to convince people of your own ideas:
In this job, you must be patient and never give up with people who you are working with:
In this job, you have to know a lot of things of history, culture and arts and be sociable and good communicator:
In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic and sociable: TEACHER
In this job, you have to work with young and old people: SOCIAL WORKER
In this job, you have to take orders: SOLDIER
In this job you have to be competent, well qualified and enjoy animals
In this job you must work under pressure most of the times, you will be underpaid, and you have to deal with complaints of the people
In this job you should be highly motivated, do business and take decisions
In this job, you have to be hard-working, cheerful dynamic and sociable. RECEPTIONIST
In this job, you have to work with young and old people. SANITARY
In this job, you have to take orders. WAITER/WAITRESS
In this job, you have to love animals.
In this job, you have to have a lot of creativity.
In this job, you have to like working with the public.
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