Thursday March 31st 2016
Class
- Work (p. 26) Discussion and listening
- Jobs - voice artist, nurse, lawyer, model, shop assistant, journalist
- Adjectives - rewarding, monotonous, challenging, glamorous, stimulating, flexible, repetitive, satisfying
Vocabulary
- work (uncountable noun - some work, I have lots of work)
- job (countable noun - a job, I work 3 jobs, I have many jobs to do)
- overpaid = paid too much
- underpaid = paid too little
- tight deadline (If money or time is tight is means there is very little of it)
- job security
- shift work
- (fashion) designer - a person who designs clothes
- stylist - a person whose job is to arrange and coordinate food, clothes, etc. in a stylish and attractive way in photographs or films.
Vocabulary Skills
Create a lexical set around a particular job to help you remember new vocabulary e.g.
Shop assistant: filling shelves, serving customers, changing window displays, chain (store), branch, refund, dealing with customer complaints.
Listening Skills
As you discovered in the lesson, there is often a lot of ambiguity when listening in English. For example the words patients and patience sound the same. Remember to always listen for other clues in the sentence to help you make the right choice and sometimes it will just be confusing as in the following sentence:
A doctor needs lots of patience when dealing with lots of patients.
Homework
Do some listening practice using a video or podcast. Check the audio script afterwards. What made the text confusing or ambiguous?
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