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The key answer of exercise 8

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

Listen to four dialogues and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. feeling fed up with work, working longer and longer hours and feeling exhausted; no definite plans but might do some voluntary work abroad
  2. wants to go back to college and retrain as a vet; has definite plans; taking an exam in three weeks' time and if successful will start the course probably in September
  3. feels isolated working from home and misses having colleagues; has definite plans (has a job interview tomorrow afternoon)
  4. wants a more senior position with more responsibility at work; no definite plans