General Education Office

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General Education Office

• BUSINESS ENGLISH
• LA.231/LA.331/LA.3501
• Unit 2 Work and Leisure

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Objectives

• By the end of this class you should be able to
• List basic work and leisure activities.
• Use days, months, and dates vocabulary
  effectively.
• Describe routines and use time management
  vocabulary
• List work or career and lifestyle expectations.

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Unit 2. Balancing Working and Living

• In the past, getting one job for your whole life
  was the dream.
• But nowadays the idea of keeping only one job is
  not realistic.
• These days it is more popular to work for
  short-term contracts instead of yearly contract
  renewals.
• In the past, knowing your schedule all the time
  allowed for people to plan leisure activities
  easily.
• In the modern world these activities are more
  difficult to plan for, so knowing how to do this
  effectively is important for a long career.

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Technology

• Technology makes our jobs faster and easier to
  do, but this also means we now have more work to
  do.
• E-mail, laptops, and mobile phones have doubled
  our work and give our employers the chance to
  contact us anywhere and anytime.
• Most workers using these technologies in their
  jobs will work their normal hours, and take their
  equipment home to do more work. This saves the
  company time and money, and makes you work harder.

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Flexibility

• Nowadays more and more people are trying to
  balance their worklife and their homelife more
  efficiently.
• Working part-time jobs or negotiating more
  flexible working hours is becoming increasingly
  more popular.
• What are some other forms of flexibility and
  jobs?
• ? Teleworking, or homeworking, is becoming
  popular, as are people who choose to downshift
  take less demanding, and less paying jobs in
  order to avoid a negative lifestyle.

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Aspects of a good job

• A) Work in pairs. Discuss the things people might
  want from work,
• For example, a large office, nice colleagues

1. Work in pairs. Make three word partnerships in
   each box to find out what four people want from
   their work.

• high colleagues
• long salary
• helpful holidays

2 friendly security travel opportunities job b
oss
3 company phone mobile facilities parking car
4 fast facilities flexible promotion sports ho
urs
C) Now listen and check the word partnership
they use. (16)
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Aspects of a good job

• Match some word partnerships from Exercise B to
  their meaning 1 to 6
• A lot of money high salary
• A lot of time away from work
• Good people to work with
• The chance to go to different places on business
• Move quickly to a higher position at work
• You can change the times when you start and
  finish work

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Prepositions of Time

• We use
• at for a PRECISE TIME
• in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
• on for DAYS and DATES

at in on
PRECISE TIME MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS DAYS and DATES
at 3 o'clock in May on Sunday
at 10.30am in summer on Tuesdays
at noon in the summer on 6 March
at dinnertime in 1990 on 25 Dec. 2010
at bedtime in the 1990s on Christmas Day
at sunrise in the next century on Independence Day
at sunset in the Ice Age on my birthday
at the moment in the past/future on New Year's Eve
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Prepositions of Time

• Complete these time phrases with in, at or on.
  Then write the phrases under the correct
  preposition.
• _at_ night 4 ____ Thursday 7 ____ June
• ____ the autumn 5 ____ the afternoon 8 ____
  New Year
• ____ 15th May 6 ____ Tuesday evening 9
  ____ the weekend

at (x3) in (x3) on (x3)
at night
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Prepositions of Time

• Complete these 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 _______ 15th June.
• The CEO visits our branch ______ the summer.
• We deliver large goods ____ Monday afternoons.

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Describing your routine

• Before you read the article. Discuss these
  questions.
• 1) What is a typical day in the life of the CEO
  of a big company?
• 2) What do CEOs do at weekends?
• Look through the article Carlos Ghosn, Superstar,
  on Page 16. Can you find any of the ideas that
  you discussed in A.?
• Answer these questions.
• 1) Why do some people call Ghosn 7/11?
• 2) Why is Ghosns schedule busy?
• Decide whether these statements are true or
  false?
• 1) Many people think Ghosn is Japanese. False
• 2) Ghosn speaks three foreign languages.
• 3) He lives in Europe.
• 4) He often travels between Europe and Asia.
• 5) He meets international customers at weekends.
• 6) He has four children.

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Describing your routine

• E) In each box, match the words that go together.

• football a) leader
• 2 business b) maker
• 3 car c) player

• 4 attend a) customers
• 5 meet b) languages
• spend c) meetings
• speak d) time

• Work in pairs. Tell your partner about your day
  and about your weekend.
• I get up
• I arrive at work/college at..
• At weekends, I..

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Describing your routine

• Language Focus
• We use the present simple tense to talk about
  habits and work routines.
• I travel overseas.
• He attends meetings.
• Does he meet international customers? Yes he
  does. / No he doesnt.
• We dont drive to work.

1. Complete the article about Giorgio Armanis
   working day. Use the verbs in the box.

B) Complete the information about Masami
Kimura. Use the correct form of the verbs in
brackets.
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Leisure Activities

• A) Match the leisure activities to the pictures.

c
a
b
d
1 running 2 walking 3
biking 4 swimming
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Leisure Activities

• B) Use words from the box to complete the
  leisure activities below.

c
going to playing watching
listening to

1. playing golf 5 __________ tennis
2. _______ TV 6 __________ the cinema
3. _______ restaurants 7 __________ football
4. _______ CDs 8 __________ the gym

• Talk about leisure activities. Use the verbs in
  the box 1 and the time phrases in box 2. e.g., I
  love running at the weekend.

• love
• like
• quite like
• dont like

2 at the weekend on Friday night in the summer
/ winter in August / December in the morning /
afternoon / evening
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Leisure Activities

• Language Focus Adverbs and expressions of
  Frequency

• We use adverbs of frequency and expressions of
  frequency
• with the present simple to say how often we do
  things.
• He often arrives at the office at 7 oclock.
• He sometimes finishes at 11pm.
• How often does he get up early?
• He always gets up early.
• Adverbs of frequency often go
• - before the main verb Karla sometimes works
  from home.
• - after the verb to be I am always at work
  before 9.00am.
• Expressions of frequency go at the beginning or
  the end of a sentence.
• Two nights a week, he works late at the office.
• He works from home once a month.

c
never sometimes often usually always 0
100
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Adverbs of Frequency

• Write the words in brackets in the correct places
  in these sentences.
• 1) She gets up early. (usually)
• 2) They start their meeting at 9 oclock.
  (always)
• 3) We are late for meetings. (never)
• 4) I am busy in the afternoon. (often)
• 5) The office closes at 3pm. (sometimes)

b) Complete the expressions of frequency below.
Use words from the box.
three then twice Sunday week time
1 from time to time 3 once a _______ 5
every _________ 2 now and _______ 4 ________
a month 6 _____ times a week
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Adverbs of Frequency

• d) An interviewer asks people from different
  countries about their typical day. Listen and
  complete this chart. (17)

Rodolfo (Mexican) Isabel (Swiss) Sigrid (Austrian)
1 What do you do when you get to work? check email
2 Where do you have lunch?
3 How often do you travel on business?

• Work in pairs. Ask and answer these questions.
  Add similar ones of your own.
• How often do you.
• 1 play sports? 5 entertain at home?
• 2 use a mobile phone? 6 go on business trips?
• 3 drive to work / college? 7 go abroad on
  holiday?
• 4 go to a gym / fitness centre? 8 buy a
  newspaper?

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Summary

• Now you can
• List basic work and leisure activities.
• Use days, months, and dates vocabulary
  effectively.
• Describe routines and use time management
  vocabulary.
• List work or career and lifestyle expectations.