Career English Online

1. CHALLENGES: THE JOB
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U.S. Department of State
Regional English Language Office
Career English Online
MODULE 5

2. Do you enjoy your job?
What gives you satisfaction?
What is boring or irritating?
career opportunities
good pay/salary
clock on and clock off
friendly co-workers
lots of overtime
much responsibility
long holidays
nice boss
uniform
training
promotion
commuting to work
working from home

3. Choose five most important things that motivate you to work harder

4. Job satisfaction: what is good and bad about these jobs?
 a teacher
 a factory worker
 a call-center operator
 a painter
 a management consultant
 career opportunities
 pay/salary (good/bad)
 friendly co-workers
 lots of overtime
 much responsibility
 holidays (long/short)
 work in shifts
 work (hard/exciting)
 retirement (early/late)
 promotion
 flexitime system

5. Which person (1-5) is most likely to do these jobs (a-e)
1) A software designer in an Internet
company. Has to be in the office.
2) An office worker in a large,
traditional manufacturing company.
3) A manager in a department store in a
big city. Lives in the country.
4) A construction worker on a building
site where work goes on 24 hours a
day.
5) A technical writer for a city computer
company. Lives in the country.
a) work in shifts
b) work under a flexitime system
c) work from home
d) commute to work
e) clock on and clock off at the same time
every day

8. Five people talk about their jobs. Match the jobs (1-5) with the people (a-e) and put
the words in brackets into the correct grammar forms.
1) accountant
2) postwoman
3) flight attendant
4) software developer
5) teacher
a) Obviously, my work involves
_______________ (travel) a lot. It
can be quite
physically________(tire), but I
enjoy__________(deal) with
customers, except when they
become violent. Luckily this
doesn't happen often.

9. Five people talk about their jobs. Match the jobs (1-5) with the people (a-e) and put
the words in brackets into the correct grammar forms.
1) accountant
2) postwoman
3) flight attendant
4) software developer
5) teacher
b) I like ___________
(work) with figures, but my
job is much less _________
(bore) and routine than
people think. The work
_________ (involve) a lot of
human contact and
teamwork, working with
other managers.

10. Five people talk about their jobs. Match the jobs (1-5) with the people (a-e) and put
the words in brackets into the correct grammar forms.
1) accountant
2) postwoman
3) flight attendant
4) software developer
5) teacher
c) Of course, my job
involves getting up quite
early in the morning. But I
like _________ (be) out in
the open air. And I get a lot
of exercise!

11. Five people talk about their jobs. Match the jobs (1-5) with the people (a-e) and put
the words in brackets into the correct grammar forms.
1) accountant
2) postwoman
3) flight attendant
4) software developer
5) teacher
 d) You've got to think in a
very logical way. The
work can be mentally
_________ (tire), but it's
very satisfying to write a
program that works.

12. Five people talk about their jobs. Match the jobs (1-5) with the people (a-e) and put
the words in brackets into the correct grammar forms.
1) accountant
2) postwoman
3) flight attendant
4) software developer
5) teacher
e) I love my job. It's very
________ (stimulate) and
not at all ________ (repeat):
no two days are the same.
It's good to see the children
learn and develop.

13. Let’s discuss…

14. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your
life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to
do what you believe is great work. And the
only way to do great work is to love what you
do.”
Steve Jobs