UNIT 5

Describing Job Responsibility and

Describing Physical Appearance

GENERAL OBJECTIVES :

To describe nature of jobs and physical appearance

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES : To use expressions related to job responsibilities and job conditions To use expressions related to physical appearance and feelings toward it

Expressions Related to Job Responsibilities and Conditions

I’m a senior secretaryI work part time in a shoe factoryI have my own businessI make furnitureI have been a teacher for quite some time (focusing on time spent to do job)

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS

I travel a lot I deal with clientsI don’t earn much.I get good salary.I work in shiftsI work long hoursI get fringe benefit I have to wear a uniformI have to communicate in

EnglishI sometimes work outdoors

Subject + Be + Complement

I am a doctor

Subject + Action Verb + (Object)

I examine patient

Sentence Pattern

Joan Henderson (MBA, Southern Cal, 1986) is a management consultant who spends much of her time advising corporate and governmental clients on how best to implement environmental management systems. “Any company that is seriously committed to the environment should adopt management systems which combine consideration for the environmental with the day-to-day running of the company,” she argues. She has just completed a project, financed by the Environmental Protection Agency, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Pittsburgh area. Before that, her consulting firm carried out a study for the Endal Corporation of Dallas to assess the economic costs of reducing CFC emissions from their plants in Texas. Henderson is soon to begin work on a similar project in California

Answer the questions below

1. What kind of clients does Joan Henderson mainly work with?

She works with corporate and governmental clients2. What does she spend most of her time doing?

She spends much of her time advising corporate and governmental clients

3. What was her most recent job?A project financed by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Pittsburgh area.

4. Where is her next project?Her next project is in California

5. When did she get her MBA?In 1986

Feelings Toward Jobs

Questions that are usually asked :

How do you feel about your job? How do you like your job? What is it like to be an executive secretary? Do you like your job?

Possible Answers :

Sometimes I have to deal with picky clients I like my job very much I enjoy the travels I am sometimes tired of doing the same things at work The people I work with are very helpful I wish I earned more/I wish I got a better salary There isn’t enough space for us to work in. There is a good café inside the building

Questions that are usually asked :

How does she/he look? What does she/he look like?

Expressions Related to Someone’s Physical Appearance :

Possible Answers :

She has heavy make-up all the time. He doesn’t wear glasses. He looks younger than his age. He likes to look casual. He’s always formally dressed.

People’s Characteristic/QualitiesWe usually concentrate on certain characteristic

or qualities, such as these (1-6)

1. hair2. Eyes, face

4. Attitude to others

5. clothes

6. Body size and image

3. General appearance

Which of the Characteristics or Qualities above do you think each word or

phrase refers to?

Attractive Casually dressed Aggressive GenerousBald OverweightBeautiful ShyCurly SnobbishDark PaleElegant Slim

Comments on someone’s look :

She looks horrible in those tight jeans.

I hate moustache and beards.

I can’t stand women with heavy makeup

I feel disgusted by his look.

I never like fair skinned men.

I’m not used to dealing with funky looks.

DESCRIBE THEIR APPEARANCE

Angelina Jolie Will Smith

Justin Bieber Selena Gomez

Barack Obama Susilo Bambang Yudoyono

Prince William Valentino Rossi

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