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3.2 Homeworking. Reading: Working-from-home dream now a reality. signals that use a wide range of frequencies. Broadband Cost-effective Commute Miss out Query Pointless. giving the best possible profit. travel regularly by car or train.
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3.2 Homeworking Reading: Working-from-home dream now a reality signals that use a wide range of frequencies Broadband Cost-effective Commute Miss out Query Pointless giving the best possible profit travel regularly by car or train to fail to benefit from sth. useful or enjoyable by not taking part in it question, question about sth. is correct or not having no purpose
1. How long Sunjit has lived in England 2. How long Sunjit has been working at home 3. How many people work from home in Britain nowadays 4. A reason why employers might encoruage homeworking 5. A disadvantage for an employee of working from home 6. 3 methods of communication mentioned by Sunjit Since he was five 2b. Find the following information. For 3 years 2.1 m + 8 m Pa 3 (office space is costly……therefore work more efficiently Miss out on the gossip and on the social side of work Phone, email or video conferences
vocabulary: expressions connected with time and work 1. time-consuming 2. time management 3. workstation 4. work-life balance 5. spend time b. Taking up a lot of time 3a. Match the expressions with their meanings. a. Organising your time effectively The place in an office where a person works, esp. with a computer c. How much time you spend at work and home d. Use time doing sth.
time management 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. spend (a lot of) time 3b. Complete the text with the words and expressions from Ex. 3a time-consuming workstations work-life balance
Grammar: present perfect continuous T • It is formed with have/has + been + -ing. • It is used to talk about an action that finished a long time ago. • It is used to talk about an action that continues to the present. • It is often used with the time expressions since and for. 5a. Which of these statements about the present perfect continuous are true? F T T
5c. Write sentences using the present perfect continuous, unless it is not possible to use the verb in the continuous. Use since and for when appropriate. 1. Cristina / work as a designer / she graduated. Cristina has been working as a designer since she graduated. 2. I have known Yukiyo for six months. 3. How long has Mohamed been studying engineering at university? 4. Fuat has been living in Istanbul since he got a job there.
5. Marianna has been working at home for two years. 6. I haven’t been living here for very long. 7. Ji Hyun has understood the problem since yesterday morning. 8. Have Mark and Julie been teaching at the same college for a year?