Unit 4 – Just the job!

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Starting off

• For me, the most important thing

is to have an interesting and
fulfilling job.
• For me, the most important thing
is to have a job that pays well.
• For me, what job I do is not
important: I need something
which finances my other activities.
• What is the most important thing
in a job for YOU?
 • Select three which are the most
attractive and explain:
• working under pressure
Which of • being creative
these aspects • working with the public
• working in finance
of work • working as part of a team
appeal to • working independently
you? • being your own boss
• having managerial responsibilities
• problem solving and troubleshooting
• quick promotion
 Read the description of
the job from picture one

• Identify language used for speculating:

This person is probably a high-flying

executive in a large multinational
company. She is likely to be involved in
high-level decision-making, so she
undoubtedly has a lot of power, high
status and a large salary. She must work
long hours and has to deal with a lot of
stress.
Over to you
Look at the other jobs from page 40 and describe them. Use the following phrases and
the ones from the previous slide to speculate about which aspects of working you
associate with each of the jobs:
1. No doubt the Joneses will be there
2. It's unlikely that she'll come now
3. I bet / you can bet (that) they'll be late
4. I imagine (that) it'll be busy
5. The chances are that he'll win
6. There's no chance of them coming now
7. In all probability, it will be raining
8. My guess is that she'll lose
9. There's just a chance that it will work
10. I wouldn't be surprised if it rained
 The 10 questions
game
• Work in groups of 4 or 5
• Your teacher will assign one person in
each group a random job which will be
kept secret from you
• You can ask your team-mates 10 yes/no
questions to try and find out what your
job is
• Trying to guess the job does not count
as a questions but you can only try to
guess three times!
 Lead-In
• Tell your partner about your best friend.
• What do they look like?
• What are they like?
• Are they much like you or are you polar
opposites?
• How did you meet?

• Do you think it’s a good idea to become

close friends when you work at the
same place and for the same company?
What could be some of the benefits?
Are there any arguments against this
idea?
Gist reading
• Quickly read the text in ex.2
from page 41. Ignore the
gaps.
• According to the extract,
what is the answer to the
last question from the
previous slide?
 Ex.3 p.41
1. meaning (what do the other options mean?)
A
2. collocation/meaning (why are the other options incorrect?)
D
3. prepositions (what prepositions are used with the remaining options?)
C
4. meaning (how is assistance in C different from support?)
B
5. collocation/phrase (how can you rewrite the sentence using ‘leads’?)
D
6. meaning (how is ‘option’ different from ‘opportunity’?)
A
7. meaning/prepositions (attract has positive connotations. Which option
B
is negative? What is the preposition used after ‘appeal’?)
8. C collocation (what collocates with the other options?)
Exam Practice
• You are going to read a text about a wave of immigrants to the UK in
the 1950s.
• Read the text (see Google Classroom) ignoring the gaps. Is the writer
generally positive or negative about the experience of the first
immigrant workers in Britain?
• For questions 1-8, decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
• For each gap decide what aspect of vocabulary in context is being
tested and explain in your own words why the other options are
incorrect.
RUoE
Part 8
SB p.42-43
In your country
• How easy is it for graduates to find jobs?
• What are the most usual methods of job hunting?
• What is the most effective way to find a job?
• How well do universities prepare students for the world of work?

• Are you feeling anxious about having to enter the workforce? OR if

you already have a job, did you find it difficult to secure it?
 Predicting context
Do you think the introductory sentence will
be/was true for you?
Underline the key-words in the questions
Jigsaw Reading
1. Work in pairs. Student 1 reads only texts A and B; student 2 reads
only texts C and D.
2. Make sure you fully understand your sections.
3. Find the statements (1-10) which correspond to your two sections.
4. When you are ready summarise your sections one by one to your
partner using your own words.
5. Try to match the remaining statements to the fragments you did not
read just by listening to your partner's summaries.
6. If you are unsure about any of the answers discuss further together.
Work in small groups. Discuss these
questions.
• Why should people be careful about using social media? How careful
do you think people need to be?
• Which do you think is a better way to start your working life: in a big
organisation or a small company?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing an internship?
• How easy do you think it is to keep up with friends when you leave
university?
 Dependent
Prepositions
aware / concentrate / eager / hinder / keep in
contact / listen / searching / take advantage
• Match the words and phrases above with the ones of similar meaning
from the previous activity
• What prepositions do we use with them?
Adjective-Noun Collocations
Vocabulary - use
• Work in pairs. Write 5 questions in the context of work or study.
• 2 of the questions must contain dependent prepositions.
• 3 of the questions must contain adjective-noun collocations.

Swap questions with a neighbouring pair and answer them.

Listening
Part 2
Warmer
• Work in three groups.
• Group 1: You strongly believe that working for a private company is
best. Generate some arguments in favour of this option.
• Group 2: You strongly believe that working in the public sector is best.
Generate some arguments in favour of this option.
• Group 3: You strongly believe that working for yourself as in being
self-employed is best. Generate some arguments in favour of
this option.

• Convince the other teams to your point of view.

Pre-Listening Discussion
You will hear a student, Jessica, giving a talk to her class about a project
she has done on the co-operative movement (which is a modern
alternative to the more traditional modes of employment). Before you
listen, which of these statements do you agree with? Why (not)?
• Employees should have a say in decisions affecting the place where
they work.
• To become a manager, you should start at the bottom and work your
way up.
• Companies exist equally for the benefit of staff, clients and
shareholders.
Preparing the Task
• Work in pairs. Read the sentences in exercise 2, page 44. What type of
information do you think you need to fill each gap?

• Example: 1 a time or period of history (because the sentence deals

with the origin of Co-operatives and the preposition 'during' suggests
a period of time.
Vocabulary – phrasal verbs (mostly)
Listen again. Try to identify words and phrases with the following meanings:
A. be involved in making a decision about something 
B. begin to do something or deal with something
C. divide food, money, goods, etc. and give part of it to someone else
D. exist
E. formally establish a new company, organisation, system, way of working,
etc.
F. invest in something
G. show something to be different from, and usually better than, other things
of the same type 
H. take an extra action which adds to a situation
I. make something succeed, usually by working hard
React
Grammar
Possibility, probability and certainty
Lead-In
What do you think you’ll
be doing in 5 years’ time?
Improve
• Now look at the
sentences you
wrote down about
your future and
improve them
with the phrases
from activity 1.
Speaking
Part 4
 What perks
would you
like to have in
your ideal
job?
Follow-up question
Part 4 questions
Part 4 sample
Additional task - Relationships
• Follow the instructions in the pdf you can download
from the appropriate section of google classroom.
Lead-In

• How would you complete the

phrase:

For me, work is …

• Share your ideas in small

groups. Shortly explain your
sentences.
In pairs, comment on each of the following
quotes related to work:
1. ‘Work is a necessary evil to be 1. ‘A lot of fellows nowadays have a
avoided. BA, MD or PhD. Unfortunately,
Mark Twain they dont have a JOB.’
2. ‘Hard work never killed anybody, Fats Domino
but why take a chance.’ 2. ‘Its not the hours you put in your
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get paid more than people who Sam Ewing
work standing up.’ 3. ‘Far and away the best prize that
Ogden Nash life offer’s is the chance to work
4. ‘I like work; it fascinates me I can hard at work worth doing.’
sit and look at it for hours.’ Theodore Roosevelt
Jerome K. Jerome
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Punctuate the newspaper extract in google
classroom
HOME-WORKING ‘The number of home-workers is likely to
If you had the choice, would you prefer to increase by more than 50% over the next
work from home or in an office? British five years,’ claimed a spokesperson for
workers seem to be in no doubt; one in four Datamonitor, the London-based market
of them has given up commuting to the research company. As a result of this trend,
office in favour of a more domestic working consumers will spend a great deal less on
environment – and the figure is growing. certain goods and services: transport,
petrol, eating out and drinks. Moreover,
because home-workers usually take fewer
showers, the sale of personal care products
such as deodorants and soap will also be
affected.
The study, which shows that home-workers
tend to be the more highly qualified
professionals in a company, says that firms
are in danger of losing their best employees
if they do not allow home-working.
Unfortunately, however, there are some
who abuse the trust which has been placed
Discuss
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of working from home?
• Would you prefer to work from home

• COVID note – We may all be tired of having to work or study from

home, but as the restrictions are being eased, the above questions
are perhaps more important than ever, as more and more companies
are prepared to embrace the work-from-home model on a voluntary
basis.
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Unit 4 Review
• SB p.51
• WB pp.19-23