5. Speaking

Answer the question and explain why:

What working conditions are essential for your future job?

Include: working hours (start, finish, overtime, which days of the week); work clothes (uniform, custom); work breaks (coffee, lunch etc.); vacations; extras (subsidized food, company car, company leisure facilities, expense account etc.).

Consolidation

1. Watching the film

Watch the film “Madeline”.

1). Make a list of jobs mentioned.

2). Speak about devotion to one’s job using examples from the film.

2. Listening test

Listen to six people talking about their jobs (SE: 2.22 – 2.27). Complete the table with the missing information.

	CD track number	Working hours (from-to)	Days worked per week	Vacation per year	Where they eat lunch	What they usually wear at work
Mark
Susan
Ingrid
Oliver
Lee
Emily

Label them with the sectors:

1. Healthcare.

2. Sales.

3. Engineering.

4. Retail.

5. Office / Business.

6. Hotel and catering.

3. Role-play “Quirky jobs”.

Role-play a TV talk-show about having unusual jobs.

Unit 2. Health

Topic 1. Medical problems.

1. Warm-up

Pair work. Ask and answer:

Are you a healthy person?

How often do you have problems with your health?

What do you do when you feel sick?

2. Listening for gist

Listen to three speakers (SE: 2.35 – 2.37).

Where do the situations take place?

What are the people’s problems?

What were they recommended?

3. Listening for details

Listen to six conversations (IO uI: 19).

What’s wrong with people’s health?

How did another speaker respond? Did he / she sound sympathetic?

What advice was given?

4.Lexis

1) Make combinations to describe body ailments.

A sore Really bad A splitting A terrible Dreadful A twisted

Hangover Ankle Hay fever Throat Headache Sunburn

2) Match the problem with the treatment.

Sore throat Headache Cold A cut An insect bite Sunburn Indigestion Upset stomach

After-sun lotion Medicated lozenges Antihistamine cream Decongestant Painkiller Antacid Kaolin liquid Band-aid, antiseptic cream

3) Complete each sentence with a word from the box. Use each word once only

agony spine chin lips thumb look throat stomachache

a) Janet fell from her horse and injured her ......

b) I had a very bad toothache, and was in ….. all night.

c) After dinner, Jack had a ...........

d) Shirley had a strange …….. on her face.

e) After speaking for two hours, the lecturer had a sore.........

f) Stan is deaf, but he can understand people by reading their...........................

g) One of the boxers punched the other on the..........................and knocked him out.

4). Complete each sentence (a-j) with a suitable ending (1-10). Use each ending once.

a) I think we should send for an ambulance............

b) Some people go jogging every morning.....................

c) It would be a good idea for you to go to the dentist's.....................

d) The doctor gave Andy an injection.....................

e) I'm going into hospital tomorrow.....................

f) We took the cat to the vet.....................

g) Susan took two aspirins.....................

h) Nobody could find a stretcher.....................

i) The doctor gave Helen a prescription.....................

j) I bought some special cream.....................

1 to have that bad tooth of yours taken out.

2 to check whether it had recovered from its accident.

3 to take old Mrs Jones to hospital.

4 to put on my sunburnt arms and legs.

5 to get rid of her headache.

6 to reduce the pain and help him sleep.

7 to take to the chemist's.

8 to keep fit, or to lose some weight.

9 to carry the injured man out of the building.

10 to have an operation on my foot.

5). Read these sentences and then use the words in italics to complete the sentences below.

When I broke my leg playing rugby, I was in plaster for six weeks.

Mum, I've cut my finger! Have you got a plaster?

A consultant is a doctor who specialises in a certain area of medicine.

She's sprained her wrist, so her arm's in a sling at the moment.

The health system in Britain is called the National Health Service, or the NHS.

I've got to take these antibiotics three times a day for a week.

Dan is an aerobics instructor at a local fitness centre.

A ward is a room in a hospital with beds for patients.

I try to work out at the gym at least twice a week.

I hate injections! I feel faint if I just see a syringe!

1. The doctor said I had a chest infection and prescribed __________.

2. Fiona’s got an appointment to see a ___________next month. She's hoping he'll know why she's been getting these terrible headaches.

3. If you want to get fit, maybe you should take up ______.

4. My grandfather's in a with eighteen other patients.

5 When Karen's arm was , she had to learn to write with her left hand. She said it was very difficult.

6 The doctor said that, after the operation, I've got to keep my arm in _________ a for a couple of days.

7 I'd love to be able to regularly, but I just can't find the time.

8 Medical treatment is free on the ______ , but there are often long waiting lists for operations and appointments with consultants.

9 It's quite a deep cut. I don't think a _______will be enough. You might need stitches.

10 The dentist used a to anaesthetise my mouth before he started drilling.

6). Choose the most appropriate word in each sentence.

1. These tablets may make you feel dazed/dozy/drowsy so don't drive.

2. I've been working for twelve hours and I feel exhausting/tiresome/worn out.

3. The doctor said I was all in/run down/stale and gave me some vitamins.

4. Bill's father is impaired/handicapped/invalid, and needs a wheelchair to get around.

5. After walking for miles over the mountains, my feet were limp/sore/sprained.

g) Ann needs a holiday. She has been under a lot of depression/pain/stress lately, h) The authorities are worried about the increase in drug abuse/disuse/misuse.

i) I told the doctor that climbing the stairs left me catching/gasping/panting for

breath,

j) Mary spent a week in bed with a/an attack/case/outbreak of rheumatism.

k) After I drank a cup of black coffee I felt wide awake/awoken/woken.