English Unlimited HTL 1, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Working hard 65 Work and leisure 06 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS 3 a 5 Which sentences are about working? Which are about school? Replace the highlighted H[SUHVVLRQV LQ ļ ZLWK WKHVH ZRUGV WR PDNH VHQWHQFHV Do you think Pete has a good ‘work-life balance’? Why? / Why not? /LVWHQ WR VRPH VRXQGV IURP 3HWHtV OLIH Can you guess: 1 what kind of work he does? 2 what he does in his free time? Now read Pete’s article. What does he do: 1 I have a full-time job. 2 I’m an IT technician . 3 I work for BP / at home / in an office . 4 I’m doing some extra maths in the afternoon. 5 I’m studying languages at school. 6 I always get good marks . I’m unemployed . b a travel agency a sales rep history a First Certificate course part-time reports self-employed READING 4 TCD 2/01 1 every day? 2 twice a week? 3 before going to sleep? 4 every two weeks? 6 So what do you do all day? Pete Chappell, 19, catering assistant, North Sea oil platform Work: 12 hours I work 12 hours on, 12 hours o . Every day, I help prepare three meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, for 300 people. I make ten di erent fresh salads, peel a 50-kilogram bag of potatoes and wash up hundreds of dishes. I carry a lot of heavy boxes of food to the kitchen, and it’s very hot in there, so by the end of the day, I’m very tired, but the time goes fast. Me: 1 hour A er work, I spend 45 minutes in the gym doing weight training. is helps build the strength you need for the job. en I have a shower. My evenings: 3 hours ere’s always a lm to see in the platform’s ‘cinema’. is is in a small room, so only about 30 people can see a lm. I gomaybe twice a week. Everyone knows everyone else, and it’s good fun. We also spend a lot of time talking, and some of the guys tell amazing stories. I’m learning a lot about life out here! Sleep: 7–8 hours Last thing at night, I read in bed or chat with my roommate for around an hour. is is my time to relax. I need around seven hours sleep a night, and I always sleep well because I’m so tired a er my day’s work. Time o: 2 weeks We work on the platform for two weeks, then have two weeks o . Travelling home takes a whole day. It’s great seeing my friends, but the time goes too fast. Next year, I’m planning to go to a catering college in Aberdeen and train to become a chef. I don’t always want to work on an oil platform. It’s too hard. Nur z Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv