JOBS AND PROFESSIONS
1.1 Job / professions words – VOCABULARY
PRACTICE
Match the
following words with their definitions.
applicant –
be in charge of – boss – CV – day off – deadline – fire (v) – get a pay rise –
maternity
leave – occupation – pensioner – retire – sick leave – staff – teamwork –
temporary
job – unemployed – work overtime
a) a day
when you do not work
b) time
before and after the birth of a baby when a woman is allowed to be away from
her job
c) to get
an increase in your salary
d) to work
(much) longer than usually
e) someone
who is officially old enough to stop working
f) work
that you do together with other people
g) the
person who is in charge of you at work
h) a job
that you do for only a limited period of time
i) to stop
working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to
work
j) a
document giving details of your qualifications and the jobs you have had in the
past
that you
send to someone when you are applying for a job
k) another
word for ‘a job’ (used especially on forms and in formal writing)
l) someone
who applies for a job
m) without
a job
n) a
specific time or date by which you have to do something
o) the
people who work for a particular company, organization, or institution
p) a period
of time during which you do not work because you are ill
q) to have
control over someone or something and be responssible for them
r) an
informal way of ‘make (sb) redundant’
