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| Describing your job
Adjectives to describe jobs fascinating, rewarding, satisfying, stimulating, boring, dull, repetitive, routine, uninteresting, challenging, demanding, hard, hectic, tiring, tough. Contacts at work boss, CEO, colleague, coworker, counterpart, customer, line manager, opposite number, project leader, supplier. Collocations with 'task' approach / get down to / tackle a task / carry out /do / get on with / perform a task complete / fulfil / succeed in (doing) a task assign somebody / give somebody / set somebody a task be tasked with doing something Collocations with 'work' I work for ... (a company) I'm working on ... (a project) I work with / alongside ... (colleagues) I work on my own. I work from home. to be in work / out of work to be off work (because you're ill) I leave for work at 7.30am, I go to work by train, I get to work at about 8.45am, I'm at work until 6pm. Activity 1. Find a word in the text above that matches each definition below. The words appear in order. 1. (two words) the things that a person or organization has done in the past which show how well they have done ………………………… 2. (phrasal verb) prepares a written document (e.g. a list, plan, contract)…………….. 3. be in charge of a group of workers and check that their work is done satisfactorily (= supervise)……………………… 4. (phrasal verb) officially agree to something ……………………….. 5.exchange information so that everyone knows what is happening………………….. 6. (two words) the process of working with a lot of numbers and calculating results…………………………… Activity 2. Underline the correct words in italics. 1. A job that is challenging / demanding is difficult, but also interesting because you have to use a lot of skill; a job that is challenging / demanding needs a lot of your time and attention, but isn't necessarily either difficult or interesting. 2. The phrase 'my line manager' / 'my boss' could be a little informal, particularly if that person is present (e.g. being introduced by you), so instead we can say 'my line manager’/ 'my boss'. 3. The word colleague / coworker is more common in Europe; the word colleague / coworker is more common in the US and Asia. 4. The word counterpart / opposite number refers to someone with the same job as you in another organization; the word counterpart / opposite number may have the same meaning, but is also commonly used for someone in your own organization who has the same job but in a different place (e.g. a different country). Download 176.25 Kb. Share with your friends:
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