2. Match some word partnerships from Exercise A to their meanings 1 to 6. ... 2. Match the words in each box to make word partnerships. Language focus Le ...
II WORK AND LEISURE Starting up 1. What do people want from work? Listen to four people. Make three word partnerships they use from the words in each box (2.1) Qu’attendent les gens de leur travail ? Ecoutez 4 personnes. Construire 3 noms composes qu’ils utilisent à partir des mots de chaque case high
colleagues
Friendly
office
long
salary
travel
helpful
holidays
large
boss
opportunities
company
phone
fast
facilities
mobile
computer
flexible
promotion
laptop
car
sports
hours
2. Match some word partnerships from Exercise A to their meanings 1 to 6. (reliez les noms composés de l’exercice 1 avec les définitions suivantes) 1. a lot of money : a high salary 2. a lot of time away from work 3. good people to work with 4. the chance to go to different places on business 5. move quickly to a higher position at work 6. you can change the times when you start and finish work
Vocabulary 1 Days, week and month 1. Put the days of the week in order. Which days are ‘the weekend’? Friday
Monday
Saturday
Tuesday
Sunday
Thursday
Wednesday
2. Write the months of the year under the correct seasons. (placer les mois sous les saisons) June April January August December February May October March September November July
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
3. Complete the time phrases with in, at or on. Then write the phrases under the correct preposition. 1……night 2……the autumn 3. …..15 May
4………Thursday 5……the afternoon 6……Tuesday evening.
7 ……June 8 ……New Year 9 …. …the weekend
4. Complete the sentences with in, at or on. We have a lot of big orders ……. March. The office closes for three days ……… New Year. There is an important meeting……….June. The CEO visits our branch ………..the summer. We deliver large goods…………. Monday afternoons.
Reading
Describing your routine
Michael Dell's working day Michael Dell is chairman of Dell Computer Corporation in the US. For about 30 percent of his time he travels overseas and meets international customers. Each year he makes two or three trips to Europe and two trips to Asia. When he is at his home in Austin, Texas, he gets up at 5:30 a.m. each day. He lives with his wife, Susan, and their four children, who are all under the age of ten. His wife owns a clothes shop in Austin. In the mornings he does exercises for an hour from 6:00 a.m. and then drives to his office. He arrives at 8:00 a.m. At his office he talks to customers and makes plans for the organization. He leaves the office at about 6:15 p.m. and has dinner with his family. He reads stories to his children and gets them to bed. He often spends time in the evening writing e-mails. 'Then I go to sleep, get up and do it all again,’ he says. In his free time he likes to go running und biking. From The Times
1. Mark each statement true or false. (true - vrai ou false - faux?) Michael Dell makes three trips to Asia each year.
False
He lives in Europe. He has four children. His wife has a shop in Austin, Texas. He has dinner with customers. He works on his computer in the evening.
2. Match the words in each box to make word partnerships. 1 go
a) football
4 travel
c) overseas
2 play
b) exercise
5 meet
b) customers
3 do
c) running
6 spend
a) time
Language focus Le present simple 1. Complete the article about Giorgio Armani's working day. Use the verbs from the box. works
sleeps
has
spends(passer)
wakes
stops
walks (marcher)
travels (voyager)
goes
Giorgio Armani…………. up at 7 a.m. He..................... to the gym and…………. an hour there. He ................................................................................................... breakfast and then…………. to the office with his bodyguard. He has pasta and a salad for lunch and then he…………………………for 10 minutes. He…………… until 8 p.m. on design and administration. He…………………..every two months -- to the US, Russia or other parts of Europe. On his way home from the office, he often…………….. for a drink at Nobu. At weekends he goes to his villa.
2. An interviewer asks people from different countries about their typical day. Listen and complete the chart. (2.2) (un journaliste interroge des gens sur leur journée habituelle) Rodolfo(Mexican) 1. What do you do when you get to work? 2. Where do you have lunch? 3. How often do you travel on business?
check e-mail
Isabel (Swiss)
Sigrid (Austrian)
3. Complete the conversation. Use words from the box. Then listen and check.( 2.3) Pal: What do you do at the weekend? Tim: I'm………………on sport. I ..........…………….like karate, and I………………….playing football. But I'm not really……………. in watching sport on TV. I don't …………….. professional football matches, for example.
Vocabulary 2 Leisure activities 1. Match the leisure activities to the pictures running
walking
biking
swimming
2. Complete the leisure activities below. Use words from the box. You can use each word more than once. Going to 0 1 2 3
playing
watching
playing golf ...............TV ..............restaurants .............. COs
listening to
5 ................ tennis 6 ............... the cinema 7 ................ football S ................ the gym
Language focus 2 Adverbes et expressions de fréquence 1. Write the words in brackets in the correct place in the sentence. usually 1
She v gets up early (usually). They start their first meeting at 9 o'clock (always)
2
We are late for meetings, (never). I am busy in the afternoon, (often)
3
The office closes at 3 p.m. (sometimes)
2. Complete these expressions of frequency. Use words from the box. Three then
twice
Sunday
1. from………… to time 2. now and…………
week
time
3. once a…………….. 4 …………a month
5. every………… 6 …………times a week
3. Read the pairs of sentences. Cross out the incorrect words . (rayer le mot qui ne va pas!) a)
He reads the papers every day.
b) He always /sometimes reads the papers. a) We eat in the company cafeteria four times a week, b) We usually/sometimes eat in the company cafeteria. a) I work late once a month. b) I a)
usually/sometimes work late.
The managers don't go to business dinners at the weekend.
b) The managers never/sometimes go to business dinners at the weekend. a) The company director travels on business twice a week, b) The company director always /often travels on business.
data sources, we find that Europe's (EU-15) productivity level by 1995 had reached 91.7 ...... the labor market equilibrium away from that which would have been ...
Centre, National Centre for Scientific Research, France) and Michel Gollac at the ...... Some physical problems such as skin disorders show only a tenuous link to ...
managerâshareholder relationship, in particular, tends to encourage a ... This combination of constraints, which may be seen as a characteristic of new ...... observed only from the middle of working life onwards; moreover, among young ...
sections will provide an overview of the characteristics of platform work, ..... workers, clients and revenue generated, resulting in a quasi-non-existence of administrative ..... a supplementary form of income, the share of female workers is much ..
Image 1: The human resources staff at JWC Partners, a management .... for no radical revisions to traditional theories of work because space and time have ...... to advance the competitiveness of the virtual transnational organization. Academy ...
Apr 22, 2005 - Here is the core result of social psychology that Akerlof and Kranton .... a change in its compensation schedule: aspects of corporate culture ... these individuals give their job a purely practical value insofar it ... The third point
Workplace spirituality and employee work attitudes: An exploratory empirical... John Milliman; Andrew J Czaplewski; Jeffery Ferguson. Journal of Organizational ...
16 oct. 2014 - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...... state, considering their needs, culture and other issues. ...... Palestine.
Structural indicators on serious and fatal accidents at work monitor this aspect ... The index of fatal accidents at work steadily decreased to a value of 77 in 2003 ...
Introduction. The ILO ... The decent work concept reflects both continuity and innovation in ILO thinking on work- related issues. .... Evolution of rights at work ... Germany, where it applied in the first instance to state functionaries. ..... The
Web/pdf: 92-9014-733-4 ... 1.4 Social protection and security: Some frequently asked questions.................. ..... (ILO, 1972), and the Philippines (ILO, 1974). .... answers could have implications for the phasing of policies addressing different
services, payroll administration, accounting and other functions were subject to relocation ..... S. L. Holloway, S. P. Rice, & G. Valentine (Eds.), Key concepts in geography. (2nd ed., pp. ...... Weiser, M. (1991) The computer for the 21st century.
125 mm, and a mean velocity range of 25â160 mm/sec. These results were .... ception of position than position cues do on force per- ception. Given these results ...
1Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia ..... is theorized to represent the most developmentally advanced form of extrinsic.
Dec 18, 2004 - However, disillusionment about the stability and the survival chances of the. âRhine modelâ .... Germany is on the way to become a bazaar economy selling on ...... Automotive_Studie_EuY.pdf, download 13.4.2005. Esser ...
LU 2 Ang 9. (46.27 juin). Wages. All work and low pay. The Economist November 9th 2013. 2013, E. Actual. Abad plan to deal with Britain's low-wage recovery .
To test this prediction, changes in the energy expended (t'Oj) and work performed per reinforcement were .... stream was drawn off, dried over silica gel, and delivered to the ..... per reinforcement, therefore increasing their net energy gain.
In broad outline the genesis of the concept of variety is as follows. In the ...... that the image of (PD is a smooth quadric in P3, which contains two mutually.
The theory then postulates that satisfaction of basic psychological needs provides the .... amount of subsequent behavior and self-reports of valuing the task and feeling free while doing it; ...... Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.