1. Carry out A.

to dismiss employees from their job;

(US) to fire someone; (UK) to sack
someone
2. Take over B. to become interested in something

3. Take on C. to perform work, to do a job

4. Lay off D. to work with less energy; to be lazy

5. Knuckle down E. to become exhausted from work

6. Slack off F. when a company absorbs another

7. Burn out G. to experience problems or

difficulties
8. Get into H. to accept new employees; to hire

9. Run into I. to stop being distracted and focus on

work
PHRASAL VERBS -WORK

Questions
1. What is a job you think you could get into if you had to start working
now?

2. What problems do you think a person could run into on their first
week at work? What about you?

3. Are you the type of person to slack off when something important
needs to be done? Do you have a “slacker” in any of your work/study
groups?

4. When was a time you felt utterly burnt out by work/study? How did
you get over it?

5. Why do you think companies have massive lay offs at times?

6. Is there any interesting work being carried out in your city? (i.e a
specific building under construction, a monument or any other work
being done there)

7. Imagine you are the head of a major company and you have the
chance to take over any other, which would you choose?