Summary - Business vocabulary in use intermediate with answers ( cd-rom)

• 1 Work and jobs

• Wat do you do?

   

  I work for, I work on a car design, i run the...I manage a team. 20 people work under me.  I deal with a lot of different people. Im responsible for coordination. I work with managers. 

• In charge of =

  Responsible for
• Responsibilities =

  Something that is your job or duty to deal with
• At the end of this year I will be planning what I wil do for the next year. 

  - going on holiday to Cuba, new job, visit my friend Juan Carlos in the UK

• in charge of  + nou 

  responsible for + verb + -ing 

  responsibility    + infinitive/ -ing 

  One of my responsibilities is to make sure that.....

  one of my responsibilities is making sure that..

  You don't say: I'm a responsible 

   

• Permanent job =

  Lasting for a long time or forever

• I leave for work at 7:30 every morning 

  I go to work by train and subway

  I get / arrive at work at about 9.

  I'm usually at work till 6 

  Im' not often off work - away from work due to illness. 

• Temprorary job =

  not lasting or needed for very long

• Types of job and types of work

  A full-time job = for the whole of the normal working week; a part-time job is for less dan that. Permanent job does not finish after a fixed period; a temporary job finishes after a fixed period 

• I manage -

  Being the leader of

• 2 Ways of working

• Old and new ways

  I'm an office worker in an insurance company. It's nine -t0-five job with regular working hours.  we all have to clock on and clock off every day

   

  flextime = means we can work when we want, within certain limits. 

  shifts      = may be on day shift - one week dight shift overtime- to work more hours than usual for more  money 
  commute = I commute to work every day, like thousands of other commuters

• Flexitime =

  people can work when they want, within certain limits

• Nice work if you can get it

  All these words are used in front of job and work

   

  -satisfying, stimulating, fascinating, exciting - the work is interesting and gives you positive feelings

  - dull, boring, uninteresting, unstimulating - the work is not interesting 

  - repetitive, routine - the work involves doing the same things again and again

  - tiring, tough, hard, demanding - the work is different and makes you tiered 

• Commute=

  Working to another city than where you live

• Nature of work 

  My work involves  + noun 

   - human contact

  - long hours

  - teamwork

  I like / dislike / prefer/ enjoy +  -ing

  - working with figure

  -deling with customers

  -solving problems

                                     

• Statisfying=

  the work is interesting and give you positive feelings
• Dull=

  The work is not interesting
• Repetitive= 

  again and again
• Demanding = 

  The work is difficult and makes you tired
• The work is interesting and gives you positive feelings

  satisfying, stimulating, fascinating, exciting. 
• Dull, Boring, uninteresting, unstimulating?

  = the work is not interesting. 
• repetitive, routine

  = the work involves doing the same things again and again
• tiring, tough, hard, demanding

  = the work is difficult and makes you tired