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EMPLOYMENT
9.1
LISTENING
3
a
9.1
Listen to the consulting agency interviewing
two of the company’s employees and answer these
questions.
1
Who thinks that the company has changed the most,
Anita or Yusuf?
2
Who thinks that he/she has changed the most?
3
b
Listen again and choose the best answer to
complete these sentences.
1
Anita thinks that she is less enthusiastic now because
she
started working for the company six years ago
/
is older
/
works longer hours
.
2
The company has helped her to
learn new skills
/
achieve more
/
travel
.
3
Yusuf
was more friendly in the past
/
ate more 15
or 16 years ago
/
doesn’t have long for lunch these
days
.
4
Yusuf thinks that he is still working for the company
because
he can learn new skills
/
it is more
professional
/
the pay is better
.
3
c
Exploring the topic
Discuss these questions in
small groups.
1
Do you think the company Anita and Yusuf work for
is a good company to work for? Why?/Why not?
2
Would you like to work for a company for a very
long time, like Yusuf? Why?/Why not?
3
Do workers in your country work longer or shorter
hours than in the past? What are the reasons for this?
VOCABULARY
WORK
4
a
Find these words and phrases in Audio script 9.1
on page 158 and the email. Work with a partner and
explain their meaning.
employee long service record lunch break
market leader department promotion
staff training course work as a team
4
b
Complete these sentences with words from the
box above.
1
The
received an award for her
extremely long service record.
2
How long is the
on the
?
3
Thanks to the way we work as a team, we have
become the
.
4
About six members of
have moved to
another
in the company.
4
c
Discuss these questions in a group.
1
How long should employees have for their lunch
break?
2
What should you do if you want a promotion?
3
Can you think of three companies that are market
leaders? What makes them market leaders?
GRAMMAR
USED TO
5
a
Used to
can describe past habits and past states.
Look at these two sentences and decide which is about
a) a past habit and b) a past state.
1
Yusuf used to travel a lot.
2
I used to be more enthusiastic.
5
b
Look at Audio script 9.1 on page 158 and find
examples of
used to
. How do you make the negative
and ask questions with
used to
?
GRAMMAR TIP
You can always use the past simple instead of
used to
,
e.g.
He used to travel a lot when he was younger.
(= He travelled a lot when he was younger.)
You cannot use
used to
for single actions in the past,
e.g.
She used to finish work early yesterday
.
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Language reference and extra practice, pages 118–119
5
c
Complete these sentences about the interviews
with
used to
,
didn’t use to
or
use to
.
1
Anita
feel the same way about the job.
2
Did she
go home after 7 p.m. every day?
3
Yusuf and his colleagues
use the gym
together.
4
Did Yusuf
have long lunch breaks?
5
They
work more as a team.
6
They
have many opportunities to learn
new skills.
PRONUNCIATION
6
a
9.2
used to
Look at Audio script 9.2 on page 158
and listen. How does the speaker pronounce
use
and
used
?
6
b
Listen again and repeat.
7
Write six sentences about you, your family and
friends. Use
used to
(x3) and
didn’t use to
(x3) and the
verbs in the box. Then tell your partner.
be eat feel finish go out have help
know listen think travel work
SPEAKING
8
In a group, compare the way people live and work
today with the past.
A long time ago, most people used to work on the land –
now a lot of people work in offices.
Thirty years ago, most people didn’t use to have mobile
phones …
WRITING
9
Write a paragraph about the ideas you discussed in
Exercise 8.
