Unit 10

Unemployment
Discuss...
What is the state of unemployment in your country?

Do you know anyone who is unemployed?

How does it make them feel?

Vocabulary: Work
Job:
the job someone does in order to earn money; employment
Profession:
A type of job that requires special training, skill, education,
etc.
Occupation:
any job or profession
Career:
The job, or series of jobs and assignments, one has in a
particular area.
Labour
Work with especial reference to physical work
Duty:
The work that someone is responsible for getting done
Trade:
A job, especially one that involves physical work and requires
special training and skills
 Vocabulary: People related to work
Employee:
A person who is paid to work for a company or another person.
Employer:
A person or company that pays people to work for them.
Colleague:
A person you work with
Assistant:
A person whose job is to help/support sb in their work.
Associate:
A person that you do business or work with.
Applicant:
A person who formally requests to be given a job.
Entrepreneur:
A person whose job is to start and/or run business, usually
involving financial risks
 Vocabulary: Money
Salary:
Money that employees receive each month/year for doing their job
Wage:
Money received according to the number of hours/days/weeks that
they work
Income:
MOney sb gets from work or receives from investments
Profit:
Money that somebody gets in business.
Fee:
Money sb pays for professional advice and/or services
Compensation:
Money that is given to sb because they have been injured at work
Pension:
Money that is given to sb regularly after they have retired.
Vocabulary: verbs
Hire
To engage the services of someone
Fire:
Dismiss someone from a job
Quit:
(informal) to leave a job
Resign:
To leave a job
Pay rise:
Increase a salary/wage