1. Week 2
Plan:
Watch the video:
Vocabulary: words, phrases and idioms related to employment and careers
Collocation with the verbs win/ earn/ gain
Revising grammar: Present Simple vs Present Continuous, stative verbs, adverbs of frequency, prepositions in questions
Reading for gist/ scanning/ intensive reading: Careers Corner
Listening (a career advisor giving a speech)

2. Words, phrases and idioms related to employment and careers
1. People who work for a company: employees/ staff
2. Money received for work done: salaries/ wages
3. Having no job: unemployed/ out of work
4. To give work to: employ
5. Receiving money from the state: on benefits
6. To lose one’s job: get fired
7. To have just enough money to pay for the things that you need: make ends meet
8. Refusing to work because you want better pay/ conditions: on strike
9. A student or trainee receiving practical training: intern
10. Reduction in the number of workers: job cuts
11. Somebody at a low level in a company learning the skills needed for a job: trainee

3. Phrases/ Idioms/ Collocations
A phrase is a word or a group of words forming a syntactic constituent with a single grammatical function, e.g. an innovative design (noun phrase), on strike (prepositional phrase), etc.
An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, e.g. ‘make ends meet’.
A collocation is a combination of two words (e.g. verb + noun, adjective + noun) which are often used together, e.g. gain speed.

4. Collocations
win – a race/ a match/ a game/ the lottery earn – money/ a salary/ one’s living gain – weight/ speed/ access/ experience

5. Present Simple vs Present Progressive
He’s working. He always works at night. My dog barks a lot, but he isn’t barking at the moment.

6. Verbs not normally used in the continuous tenses
1.Verbs of the senses (involuntary actions), e.g. feel, hear, smell, see, taste, look 2. Verbs expressing feelings and emotions, e.g. admire, adore, appreciate, care for, desire, like, hate, loathe, love, mind, respect, wish, want. 3. Verbs of mental activity, e.g. agree, appreciate, expect (=think), see (=understand), suppose, remember, think (=have an opinion), realise. 4. Verbs of possession, e.g. belong, owe, own, possess.

7. Stative verbs used in progressive forms
State
Action
1.I am thinking about the play we saw last night. 2. He is looking for his glasses. 3.Why are you smelling the milk? 4.She is tasting the pudding. 5. I am seeing my solicitor tomorrow.
1. I think it’s a good idea. 2. That cake looks good. 3. Does it smell sour? 4. This coffee tastes bitter. 5. I see what you mean.

8. Adverb phrases of frequency
I still meet my old schoolfriends from time to time/ every now and again/ once every three weeks/ at times/ on Monday. (end position)
From time to time/ every now and again/ several time a month I still meet my old friends. (front position)
I never/ rarely/ hardly ever/ sometimes/ quite often take a taxi. (mid position)

9. Prepositions in questions
Prepositions normally precede nouns or pronouns. In the following constructions it is possible in informal English to move the preposition to the end of the sentence:
In questions beginning with a preposition + whom/ which/ what/ whose/ where:
To whom are you talking? (formal)
Who are you talking to? (informal)
b. Similarly in relative clauses, a preposition placed before whom/ which/ can be moved to the end of the clause. The relative pronoun is then often omitted:
….the people with whom I am working (formal)
….the people I am working with (informal)