Your job and your company

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Useful phrasesVocabulary
7. 7Check your understandingReading comprehension
8. 8Listen: Carlos's warehouseListening comprehension
9. 9Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
10. 10What does it mean?Grammar exercise
11. 11Find the present continuousGrammar exercise
12. 12Present simple or present continuous?Grammar rule
13. 13Choose the right formGrammar exercise
14. 14Owen's first weekGrammar exercise
15. 15Questions for your teacherGrammar exercise
16. 16Say it naturallySpeaking practice
17. 17Your job in two minutesSpeaking practice
18. 18Let's discussDiscussion
19. 19Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: find the mistakeGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: introduce yourself to the teamDiscussion

Words

• department/dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/

  one part of a company that does one kind of work, like sales, HR or finance

• colleague/ˈkɑːliːɡ/

  a person you work with

• report to/rɪˈpɔːrt tə/

  to have someone as your manager

• in charge of/ɪn ˈtʃɑːrdʒ əv/

  responsible for managing or deciding about something (be in charge of)

• handle/ˈhændl/

  to deal with something or take care of it (orders, calls, customers, problems)

• deadline/ˈdedlaɪn/

  the time or day by which something must be finished

• onboarding/ˈɑːnbɔːrdɪŋ/

  the process of helping a new employee start a job and learn how things work

• cover for/ˈkʌvər fər/

  to do someone's work while they are away

• hire/ˈhaɪər/

  to give someone a job

• show someone the ropes/ˌʃoʊ ˌsʌmwʌn ðə ˈroʊps/

  to teach someone how to do a job or how things work in a new place

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about your work.

1. What was your very first job, and what did you like about it?
2. Do you work in an office, from home, or somewhere else, like a store or a factory?
3. Which part of your working day do you enjoy most?

Grammar rule

Present simple or present continuous?

	Present simple	Present continuous
Use it for	your job and responsibilities, routines, facts: things that are true for a long time	things happening now or around now: current projects, temporary situations, changes and trends
Examples	I work in logistics. She manages the IT team. The factory closes at 10 p.m.	I'm writing a report for the board. We're looking for a new office. Costs are going up.
Time words	usually, always, never, every day, on Mondays, normally	now, right now, at the moment, today, this week, this month, these days
Negative	She doesn't work on Fridays.	We aren't hiring right now.
Question	What do you do? Does your company sell online?	What are you doing these days? Is he traveling this week?

Live and work can take both forms, with a difference: I live in Denver (my home) / I'm living with my parents for now (for a short time). He works days, but this week he's working nights.

State verbs

Some verbs describe states, not actions: know, understand, believe, mean, want, need, prefer, like, love, hate, own, belong, include, cost, seem, depend. We don't usually use them in the continuous, even about now: The price includes shipping. (not is including) What does this word mean? (not What is this word meaning?)

Some verbs have a state meaning and an action meaning. I think it's a good plan (= my opinion) / I'm thinking about the offer (= in my head now). We have two warehouses (= own) / We're having a meeting (= doing it). You will also see the present continuous for plans (I'm meeting a client tomorrow): that use comes later in the course.