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jobs
What is a job?
noun. a piece of work, especially a specific task
done as part of the routine of one's occupation
or for an agreed price.
What is the difference between a part and full-time
job?
A full-time employee works an average of at least 30
hours per week or 130 hours per month for more than
120 days in a year.
A part-time employee works an average of fewer than
30 hours per week or fewer than 130 hours per month
Trade: these are manual jobs.
Examples include carpenters, auto mechanics,
hairstylists, and bakers. Butchers, plumbers, and tree
surgeons are also trades.
To become a tradesperson, you usually have to do a
course and complete a period of practical work.
Profession: for this type of job you need a
university qualification. Examples include lawyers,
doctors, dentists, architects, librarians, engineers,
and pharmacists. Scientists, physicists, teachers,
university professors, and geologists are also
professions.

Unskilled:
It’s a type of work doesn’t require skills .An example
of an unskilled job is one that involves putting
materials on or in, or taking them off or out of a
machine. A person does not gain skills by doing
unskilled work.
Phrases about work
■ Where do you work? <place you work in>
■ What do you do? / What do you do for a living? <job>
■ I work at… [Microsoft]. <company>
■ I’m a/an… [accountant]. <job title>
■ I’m unemployed. / I’m between jobs at the moment.
■ I’m looking for work. <unemployed>
■ I’m a stay-at-home mom/dad.
■ I run my own business.
■ I’m a freelance… [writer/designer/etc.]
■ I’m retired. <an older person who has left his or her job>
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Present simple
wh + (do /does) + subject + main verb?
Where+ does +she+ work?
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biography
What is biography with example?
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
It involves more than just basic facts like education, work,
relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these
life events. a usually written history of a person's life.

Mohamed Salah
Egyptian soccer player
Mohamed Salah, in full Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly, (born June 15,
1992, Basyoun, Egypt), Salah was born to middle-class parents in Basyoun,
Egypt, north of Cairo.
As a youth, he idolized such professional football players as Brazilian Ronaldo and
French Zinedine Zidane
He joined the Egyptian club El Mokawloon’s youth team at age 14 and debuted with the
club’s senior team in 2010.
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Syllable stress
1. Two-Syllable nouns and adjectives
In most two syllable nouns and adjectives, the first syllable takes on the stress. Examples:
SAMples CARton PURple RAIny CHIna HAPpy

2. Two-Syllable verbs and prepositions


In most two syllable verbs and prepositions, the stress is on the second syllable.
Examples:
reLAX reCEIVE diRECT aMONG aSIDE beTWEEN deCIDE
word stress on two-syllable words
About 80% of two-syllable words get their stress on the first syllable.
There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, but very few nouns and adjectives get stress
on their second syllable.
3. Words ending in er, ly
For three-syllable words ending with the suffixes er or ly, the stress is placed on the
first syllable. Examples:
ORderly Silently LOvingly MAnager GARdener Easier
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Time expressions
What is the time expression?
A time expression is a numeric expression followed optionally by a time unit (WK, DAY,
HR, MIN, SEC) which defines a duration.

at in on
PRECISE TIME MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG DAYS and DATES
PERIODS

at 3 o'clock in May on Sunday

at 10.30am in summer on Tuesdays

at noon in the summer on 6 March

at dinnertime in 1990 on 25 Dec. 2010

at bedtime in the 1990s on Christmas Day

at sunrise in the next century on Independence Day

at sunset in the Ice Age on my birthday

at the moment in the past/future on New Year's Eve


Idiom of the day
lose touch (with something/someone)
to no longer have recent knowledge of something or
someone.
EX: I lost touch with Katie after she moved to Canada.
Thanks!
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