Macmillan Dictionary - Word of the Day

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The World of Work



We have been dealing with the topic THE WORLD OF WORK.

Initially, we talked about THE NEW WORLD OF WORK. We compared today's world of work with the past one. We did many exercises in class and we read some texts, for example: “Staying-at- home mums fit the bill”, “Multi- Tasking Madness”, etc. We also did vocabulary exercises and revised the grammar topic, relative clauses. As for videos we watched the music video “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie.


Then we started talking about WORKING STUDENTS. This week, we have been talking about students who have a part-time job, students who work in their holidays, do volunteer work or try a gap year. Many students have never heard of the term "GAP YEAR" since this is something we do not try in Portugal; consequently we will read and listen more about it.