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

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Work for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen and match each person with the correct jobs from exercise 1.
  2. Listen again and explain the meaning of the phrases from the box below.

Answer

a)

  1. journalist
  2. nursery nurse
  3. surgeon
  4. firefighter
  5. social worker

b)

  • a change in career → when someone stops the career that they have been doing and retrains to do something different
  • a labour of love → when someone does a job not for the money but because they really love it
  • a career path → the different steps that someone takes to progress in a certain career
  • to take a year out → to stop working for a year and do something completely different (e.g. travel)
  • job satisfaction → the feeling of happiness someone gets from doing their job

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