Trịnh Thị Mai Dung
Quang Trung secondary school
UNIT 12: MY FUTURE CAREER
Lesson 1: Getting started
a. Put a word/phrase from the box under each picture.
lodging manager
event planner
customer service staff
housekeeper
tour guide
biologist
b. Find a word/phrase in the conversation that means:
GCSE
vocational subjects
academic subjects
applied approach
tourism
leisure
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1. He decided to ____________ an English ____________
before going to work in America.
2. I’m ___________________. I work my eight hours and I don’t have to work overtime.
3. I prefer to ___________. That allows me time to take my
children to school.
4. She _________________ by selling vegetables in the village market.
5. She _______________ in cooking before taking the post as a chef in the restaurant.
6. Most people in my company are suffering from stress
because they are asked to _____________.
b. Complete each of the following sentences with a collocation in 2a. Note that one is not used. You may have to change the forms of the collocations to fit the sentences.
take/do
course
doing a nine-to-five job
work flexitime
earns money/a living
took/did a course
work overtime