Have a great weekend

      

Dear students, 

I´ve finished checking all your tasks so, if you miss any feedback from any of your homework ,please, let me know. I have so many e-mails during the week that it´s possible that I´ve missed any.

Next Monday, I´ll upload the topics for the third language exchange early in the morning.

Hopefully, I´ll be able to upload the material for you to work all through the week before midday.  Topic: HEALTH.

Don´t forget to prepare your final presentations in depth.

                                                            

Speaking about JOBS (for the second language exchange)

• At what age do people usually begin to work in your country?
• At what age do people usually retire in your country?
• At what age would you like to retire?
  • What do you think you will do after you retire?
  • How much money do you think you need to retire with your lifestyle?
• Can you talk about what a typical day at your current job is like?
• Can you describe some of the people that you work with?
• Can you describe your current job? Talk about terms and conditions.
• What was your first job?
• Do women usually work after they get married in your country?
• Do you ever work overtime?
  • If so, do you get paid more for overtime work?
• Do you have a part-time job? If so, what do you do?
• Do you have to attend a lot of meetings for your job?
• Do you have to do a lot of paperwork?
• Do you have to work overtime?
• If so, how often?
• Do you have to work on Sundays?
• Do you like your boss? Why or why not?
• Do you like your job?
• Do you like your job? Why or why not?
• Do you think it is more important to make a lot of money or to enjoy your job?
• Do you think women and men should be paid the same for the same job?
• Do you think women are good bosses?
• What are some of the worst jobs you can think of?
• What are some of the best jobs you can think of?

• Is it better to be a boss or an employee? Why?
• What would be the most satisfying job for you?
• What is one of the most exciting jobs you can think of? How about one of the most boring jobs?
• What kind of job do you want to get in the future?  What kind of tasks will you have to do?
• Do you think what job someone has determines who they are?
• What is the most dangerous job?

👉After having answered some of the questions above, let´s do some role plays. As we usually do in the classroom, decide who is A and who is B and set a minimum of 2-3 minutes to prepare a little bit your role, with the type of language you need to include. It´s important that you only read your part.
Can you record one role play and send it to my e-mail?
They should last for 5 minutes give or take.

• Student A Role	Student B Role
  (1a) You are a working man/woman who has a large family. You are at work. Your boss wants to talk with you.	(1b) You are a manager. You have an employee that hasn’t been performing well. He/she is often late. He/she also spends a lot of time checking his/her private emails and strange websites instead of doing work. Yesterday, you caught her/him sleeping at his/her desk. Please fire the employee (in a nice way).
  (2a) You are a manager. You are in your office. Your best employee knocks on your door. He/she wants to talk with you.	(2b) You are at work. Please tell your boss that you have accepted a position at another company, so you will be leaving the company in 2 weeks.
  (3a) You are a boss. Tell your employees that because of the economic crisis, they will be taking a 20% pay cut. This pay cut actually started last month, but you forgot to tell them. Also, you will need them to come in on the weekends for the next few months, until things get better.	(3b) You are at work. Your lovely boss has an announcement.
  (4a) You are the manager of a busy company. One of your employees wants to talk with you.	(4b) Your boss has been forcing you to work more and more overtime every week. You have also been given many extra responsibilities that do not fall under your job description. You haven’t been able to spend much time with your family, and your husband/wife is threatening to divorce you. Please talk to your boss.