Vocabulary & speaking
3.9. Speaking about past events.
What did you do yesterday? At the weekend?
When did you go on a spending spree last?
What did you buy? Were there any special offers?
What film did you watch last? What was it about?
What book did you read last? Who was it by? What was it like?
When did you go on holiday last? Where did you go?
3.10. Biographies. Tell about some moments from your life. These phrases will help you. Don’t forget to use past simple.
To be born
To enter – leave, finish school
To enter – graduate from the university
To do a PhD/ a master/ MBA
To get a part-time, full-time job
To travel to
To get promoted
To get engaged, married, divorced
To have a baby
To get a driving license
3.11. Studying.
1) Remember some of your school or university teachers. Who was:
friendly boring
strict frightening
patient kind Interesting funny
What subject was most difficult to you?
Did you happen to get a job after school or enter the university?
2) Do you still keep in touch with your classmates or groupmates? How often do you meet or chat? What topics do you discuss?
3) Did you do a course which you enjoy or which lead to a well-paid job?
Did you study in your home town and live with parents or move to another city?
3.12. Jobs.
- What do you do? (What are you? What’s your job?)
- Do you ever get bored with your job?
- How do you get to work? How long does it take you?
- Do you get many breaks at work?
- Describe a typical day of a person of any profession you are interested in. What is it like?
3.13. Questions about work. Choose from the box the missing words and practice asking these questions.
People money studying do enjoy
1. Are you working or _______________ or what?
2. So what do you __________?
3. Do you __________ it?
4. What are the _________ you work with like?
5. And what’s the __________ like? Is it OK?
LISTENING
3.14. Applying for a job. Listen and note.
Sue applied to …………………. different places.
Sue had ……………………………….. job interview.
She applied to the position of ………………….. .
Sue’s doing her degree in …………………………. .
She’s ………………………………………. with money.
At school she was good at …………………………. .
She ……………………. real experience of working for an accounting company.
She only ………….... tea and .……………. letters.
She felt …………………………… when they asked her some difficult questions.
She also applied to ……………, but the money is
………………. there.
Now listen again and check.
3.15. What do these words mean?
To fill in ____________________________________
Before the deadline __________________________
To send off _________________________________
To borrow money ____________________________
To run a company ____________________________
Disaster ____________________________________
Embarrassing _______________________________
Drug company _______________________________
Use them in your own sentences.
3.16. Discussion.
Would you ever lie about your work experience, age, qualifications?
What are you good/terrible at? What sentences are true about you?
I’m terrible at maths. I can’t even add up!
I’m really good at languages. I can speak German, French and English.
I’m good at fixing things. I enjoy repairing things in the house.
I’m not very good at listening to people’s problems. I think they should sort things out themselves!
I’m good at communicating with people. I make friends easily and I don’t usually have arguments.
SELF-STUDY
3.17. Choose the best word for each gap in the text.
hours
late
multinational
paid
permanent
promoted
reliable
retired
sick
temping
whole
A lot of people ask me why I do __________ work rather than get a ___________ job with one company. I guess it’s partly because of my father. He was a computer programmer for a big ______________ company. His job was very important to him. He used to work very long ________. When we were kids, he often got home after nine o’clock at night – the time that we went to bed. Sometimes I didn’t see him for days and days. He did very well in his job. He got ____________. He became the manager for the ___________ of the country. He just worked harder and harder. I don’t think he was really happy, but I guess he couldn’t see any other way. When he __________ he didn’t know what to do. He was even more unhappy. He died of a heart attack when he was 68. I don’t want to be like that. I don’t have to do the same things or see the same people every day. I’ve been with the same agency for about ten years now. They know I’m a good and ____________ worker – I’ve never been _______ for work. I only get ________ for the days I work, so if I’m not very well and take a day off ______ or if I want a holiday, I don’t get any money.
WRITING
3.18. Can you think up an ending to this story?
About two months ago I had an interview for the job I really wanted. I decided to drive there but I got stuck in traffic and when I got there I was in a hurry. I parked my car on the nearest parking place. Another car arrived as I was getting out of my car and a man from the car asked me to park somewhere else, because it was Managing Director’s parking place. I ignored him and ran to the interview. I was sitting and waiting for the interviewer when the door opened and ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TRANSLATION
1. Он получил права несколько лет назад. _________
_____________________________________________
2. Когда ваша семья переехала в Брайтон?
_____________________________________________
3. Он был моим лучшим другом в школе, мы сидели за одной партой.______________________________
____________________________________________
4. Какой фильм вы смотрели на прошлой неделе?
_____________________________________________
5. Что вы выяснили, в конце концов?_____________
____________________________________________
6. Они поженились в 1990 году, но развелись полгода назад. _______________________________
_____________________________________________
7. В любом случае мы хорошо провели время!
______________________________________________
8. Вчера мы поссорились с дочерью.
______________________________________________
9. Прошлым летом я работал на временной должности в отеле.
______________________________________________
10. Я по-прежнему поддерживаю связь с одноклассниками.
______________________________________________
11. В прошлом году она не поступила в университет.
______________________________________________
12. Когда ты получил права? _____________________________________________
13. Моя учительница математики была строгой и грозной.
____________________________________________
14. Меня интересует лишь временная работа.
___________________________________________
15. Мое интервью прошло ужасно.
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
APPENDIX
Useful Vocabulary
application form
course
deadline
driving license
embarrassing
embarrassed
frightening
full-time, permanent job
lecture
loan
Master’s
part-time, temping job
patient
PhD
skills
strict
to apply (for)
to be good/terrible at
to be retired
to borrow
to come in handy
to drop out
to enter
to fill in
to get engaged/married/divorced
to get paid for
to get promoted
to graduate from
to have a baby
to keep in touch
to leave home
to live away from home
to move house
to pass/fail an exam
to run a company
to send off
to sort things out
to take a day off sick
to take a year off
work experience
Formulas
Definitely!
That was a disaster.
That’s brilliant.
What do you do?
What was it like?
What year are you in?
Why are you so surprised?
You’re terrible with money!
Extra Vocabulary
Freedom
Government
straight after
to be in a hurry
to concentrate on
to fix
to get stuck in traffic
to have an argument
to pay back
to repair
to shout
Grammar explanation
Past Simple
We use the past simple to talk about things in the past that we see as completed. We often use time expressions with the past simple to make it clear we are talking about the completed past: last, ago, yesterday, in (2000) and others. We can use the past simple to talk about things that happened once, over a longer period of time or happened a lot in the past.
Positive sentences:
I missed my bus this morning.
I worked in a shoe shop for two years after I graduated from university.
I played a lot of tennis when I was younger.
He was out last week.
We were in London last summer.
Negative sentences:
I didn’t watch TV yesterday.
She didn’t pass her exams last week.
He wasn’t there last spring.
They weren’t in a hurry when I saw them.
Questions:
A: Did you watch that programme yesterday?
B: Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.
Why was he absent last time?
Where were you yesterday?
UNIT 4: EATING OUT