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Working with words I Describing work

1 What kind of information do these places have about you and your job?
• A company website
• A personal webpage
• A social media site st1ch as Facebook or Linkedin
• A brocht1re or pt1blication such as a conference programme
2 Read these profiles about p eople from a training company website an d answer
the questions.
1 What is the name of the con1pany? What kinds of training courses does it
provide?
2 Which people work full-time for the con1pany?
3 Which people are freelance and sometimes work for the company?
work as + title for+company

HOWARD EMRANN
A big portion of time
BRIGHT BHATT
spend I'm the Director of I work as a trainer
In-balance, which I for In-balance
work for Amazon DC
set up in 1996. We and run regular
offer high quality courses on
training services using mobile
throughout the UK. I'm mainly in charge technologies in marketing. I'm also a
of planning and coordinating our courses. marketing consultant with my own agency.
I work with a team of full-time office staff I specialize in online marketing and a
and freelance trainers. large part of my work involves developing
be in charge of sth marketing strategies for small-to-medium
work with sized business owners.
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I specialize in prevention of falling from high places/points
I work full time for + company
I am responsible for + Ving TASIA FEY DE
Most of my work consists of + Ving CLIFFORD BOUTILIER
a large part of my work involves+Ving
I work part-time I work in
A large part of my work involves controlling
contractor company's safety conditions for In-balance and customer
I am mainly in charge of I am responsible services for
I am responsible for + Ving for running In-balance. As
their courses on the customer
I mainly deal with making root-cause analysisemployment law and health and safety. service representative, I mainly deal with
For the rest of the time, I'm a business enquiries and bookings from a variety
lawyer with experience in the fields of of clients ranging from multinational
employment law and health and safety. corporations to individual customers.
Most of my work consists of advising
managers and businesses in these two
areas. My clients come from a range of
businesses and organizations.
 3 Complete this table with information about Tasia, Emrann an d Fey fro m their
profiles in 2.

Job(s) Colleagues Main area(s) of Workplace

and clients business activities
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Howard Director office staff and training planning and
freelance trainers coordinating
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courses
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Tasia
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Emrann
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Fey

4 Discuss with a partner. How many full-time, part-time and freelance staff do
you have in your comp any?
5 Complete the verb phrases in these sentences with a preposition. Check your
answers by looking for the same verb phrases in bold in the profiles in 2 .
work with: clients, colleauges 1 I work _ with
_ _ _ a large group of people. We make a great team.
work for: company
work as: title 2 I'm responsible _ for_ _ _ planning and budgeting.
work in: company 3 My job consists _ of_ _ _ advising businesses and organizations on
employment law.
I work as a health and safety consultant in a large of _ _ _ coordinating sales teams across the region.
4 I'm iI1 charge _
multinational.
5 I specialize in workplace motivation.
consult 6 I work as a receptionist in a large multinational.
consulting
consultant 7 I work _ in _ _ _ the areas of fiI1ance and accounting.
consultancy
8 I deal with after-sales enquiries.
6 Which of the categories a-d do sentences 1-8 refer to? (Some of the sentences
can refer to more than one category.)
a Job
Tip I mainly b Colleagues and clients _l_
You can use the adverb mainly c Areas of bt1siness
to emphasize your main
d Workplace activities
workplace activities. Notice the
position is after the verb to be
but before the main verb: >> For more exercises, go to Practice file 1 on page 106.
I'm mainly responsible for
planning. 7 Work with a partner. Tell your partner about your job. Use the verb phrases
I mainly deal with taking
from 5.
bookings.
8 Write a profile about yourself and your job for your company website.

About yourself