Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - The daily grind for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and check you understand the meaning of the underlined phrases in the sentences below.

Answer

  1. travelling to and from work
  2. to do the majority of your work at home
  3. earning money for the work you do
  4. working for a charity or for the community without being paid for it
  5. someone who finds it difficult to stop working during their free time
  6. the building or room where people do their jobs
  7. the regular pattern of work
  8. a culture where people are given respect and status according to their jobs and how much they earn
  9. when people have a fixed starting and routine in their job which is the same as most other people, usually starting at 9:00 a.m. and finishing at 5:00 p.m. with an hour free at lunch time
  10. when individual workers have some control over when they start and finish work