Unit 12:
MY FUTURE CAREER
Lesson 1: Getting started

Vocabulary
• Academic/ˌækəˈdemɪk/ (a): có tính chất học thuật, thuộc nhà
trường
• Academy /əˈkædəmi/ (n): học viện
• Approach /əˈprəʊtʃ/ (n): phương pháp, cách tiếp cận
• Vocation /vəʊˈkeɪʃən/ (n):nghề̀ nghiệp
• Vocational (adj) :thuộc về̀ nghề̀ nghiệp
• Housekeeper (n): người dọn phòng (trong khách sạn), quản gia
• lodging manager (n): người phân phòng, quản lí phòng trọ
• Staff (n) : nhân viên
• Qualification (n): trình độ, văn bằng, chứng chỉ
• Leisure/ˈleʒər/, /ˈliːʒɚ/ (n, a): thời gian rỗi, giải trí

a. Put a word/phrase from the box under each picture.
housekeeper
tour guide
lodging manager

event planner
customer service staf
biologist

lodging manager

event planner

housekeeper

tour guide

customer service staff

biologist

b. Find a word/phrase in the conversation that means:
1. a secondary school qualification that UK
students generally take at the age of sixteen
2. subjects connected with the skills and
knowledge to do a job
3. subjects which focus on theory including
mathematics, literature, science, etc.
4. a practical method
5. the business of providing services for people on
holiday
6. the time when you are not at work or school

GCSE
vocational
subjects
academic
subjects
applied
approach
tourism
leisure

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• Earn a living: kiếm sống
• Earn money:
• Do a nine – to – five job: làm việc theo giờ hành chính
• Do/ take a course: tham gia khóa học
• Work flexitime: làm việc theo giờ linh hoạt
• Work overtime: làm tăng ca

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.
course before going to work in
1. He decided to_______
take/do an English _______
America.
2. I'm ___________________.
doing a nine-to-five job I work my eight hours and I don't have to
work overtime.
3. I prefer to work
___________.
flexitime That allows me time to take my children to
school.
4. She earns
_________________
money/a living by selling vegetables in the village market.
5. She took/did
_______________
a course 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 _____________.
work overtime

HOMEWORK
- Learn by heart the vocabulary.
- Redo exercise.
- Prepare next lesson: A closer look 1