English 9 unit12getting 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:
1. a secondary school qualification that UK
students generally take at the age of sixteen

GCSE

2. subjects connected with the skills and
knowledge to do a job

vocational
subjects

3. subjects which focus on theory including

mathematics, literature, science, etc.

academic
subjects
applied
approach

4. a practical method
5. the business of providing services for
people on holiday

tourism

6. the time when you are not at work or school

pleasure


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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.
1. He decided to ____________
an English ____________
take/do
course
before going to work in 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