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Vocabulary: let's get down to work

In the preceding test: test we had studied the vocabulary enabling you to find your way when looking for a job.

In this new lesson, you'll be given the basic vocabulary you'll need when you're at work or in training. The job is found, you just have to do it... in the best possible way.

1) Ways and means to start a job and keep it...

A CV/ a résumé	A curriculum Vitae
Skills	Training
Qualifications	Work experience
A task	Vocational training
In-service training In-house training	A training course
To go on a training-course	To retrain
A retraining course	To go on a refresher course

To be responsible for stg (or someone)	To be in charge of
To be directly responsible to sb	To delegate stg/ sb to

2 popular quotes:

- Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.

2) A lot of verbs and adjectives to qualify WORK and workers:

Careful	Conscientious
Industrious	Diligent=> diligence
Painstaking	To be very reliable
To work hard	To be snowed under with work
To be hard-working	To work oneself to death
To get down to work	To be rewarding
To be at work on stg... => =	To be working on stg
Busy	To be overworked
Lazy/ idle	Laziness/ idleness
Lackadaisical	Careless=> carelessness
To be irresponsible	To be unreliable
A professional misconduct	A workaholic

Stay away from professional misconduct!

That's it! Now, you only have to roll up your sleeves and get down to work!

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1. 'In my future position as manager, I’ll be directly Mr Jones, and to nobody else.'

2. After working 5 years in the same company, he has earned the right to a and hopes to be promoted soon after.

3. 'He’ll have to change his attitude towards work. Such is intolerable.'

4. 'In my opinion, he’s totally and can’t be followed at all. Doing so would be unwise.'

5. It’s normal for employees to want to improve their knowledge of our products, and of the different updates; that’s why, every five years, we’ll give them a four-month- .

6. 'I don’t have enough to lead the team when Billy relocates.'

7. 'When hiring new employees, the company provides a in the different departments to make sure they’ll know the bases of their chain of production.'

8. 'The incident is closed. , you have 3 hours left to finish your work.'

9. What he did was an act of and he really deserves to be laid off.

10. 'I really think you have the necessary to lead the whole team.'

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