New Language Leader

Intermediate:
(by David Cotton, David Falvey and Simon Kent. Published by Pearson Longman)

Unit 3 (pages 26 to 35)

Please go through this powerpoint
document page by page.
This on-line course has been designed by Padraig A. CARTY
–M.A.; B.Sc (Mgmt); PRCE.
Look at the list of jobs in exercise 1 on page 26 and decide
which of those jobs is being described in each of the
sentences on the next slide.
• My work is very physical. I’m quite famous and I earn a lot of money, some people say I earn too much.
• Professional footballer
• I’m basically a secretary to a high ranking executive in the corporation I work for.
• Personal Assistant
• I always have to look my best because millions of people tune in to watch me every week.
• T.V. Presenter
• I have a team of people whose job it is to present our products to potential customers throughout the region.
• Sales manager
• My job is to check all the contracts before we sign them; I also write up any contracts we may wish others to sign.
• Lawyer
• I travel a lot and I earn a lot of money when I have work, unfortunately I don’t always have work and I know that in a
very few years I won’t be able to do this work anymore.
• Model
• My job is to make sure the laws of the land are enforced, and respected by the people.
• Police officer
• I represent my constituents in parliament. I’m often accused of being a liar, but I’m not; I’m just ‘economical’ with the
truth.
• Politician
• I earn a very low salary compared with my counterparts in most other industrialised countries but I like my job because I
enjoy what I do; plus I get very long holidays.
• Teacher
• I write articles for a newspaper.
• Journalist
• I sometimes save people’s lives, but mostly I just intervene in minor incidents.
• Firefighter
Exercice 2a, page 26.
Go to www.english.com/students/languageleader , intermediate audio, unit three,
recording 1.(https://www.youtube.com/embed/6WTVvaROVXc)
Listen to the five people and do the exercise in the book.

• Nurse
• Lawyer
• Model
• Shop assistant
• Journalist
Exercice 2a, page 26.
Touvez une traduction pour les mots ci-dessus (ces mots figurent dans l’extrait
auditif)
Ce vocabulaire risque de figurer dans le partiel de fin de semestre.

• A work shift
• Paperwork
• Cases (in a legal context)
• Window displays
• A refund
• Overtime
• A branch (in a commercial context)
• Tight deadlines
• Exercice 3a, page 26. Faites l’exercice dans
votre livre avant de continuer.
 Exercice 3a, page 26: réponses

1) Rewarding 4) Stressful 7) Satisfying

2) Challenging 5) Tedious 8) Stimulating

3) Glamorous 6) Repetitive 9) Flexible

10) Monotonous
 Exercice 4, page 26

Lisez les quatre articles (page 27) et

faites l’exercice 4 (page 26) avant de
continuer.
 Exercice 4, page 26 réponses, notez les mots en gras qui risquent d’être inclus
dans le partiel de fin de semestre.

• 1) Paragraph A: …is the country’s leading sports shoe

manufacturer…
• 2) Paragraph D: …used to working alone.
• 3) Paragraph A: …candidates should be prepared to spend
time at our overseas branches in Rome and Berlin
• 4) Paragraph C: … shift work (including some nights and
weekends)
• 5) Paragraph B: … Bonus.
• 6) Paragraph C: … There are excellent prospects for rapid
career progress
• 7) Paragraph B: You will be responsible for leading and
motivating a team
• 8) Paragraph D: …ability to work under pressure
 Exercice 5, page 27

Faites l’exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercice 5, page 27 (réponses)

• 1) Looking for
• 2) Experience of
• 3) Depend on
• 4) Responsible for
• 5) Expected to
• 6) Knowledge of
• 7) Motivated by
• 8) Report to
• 9) Prospects for
• 10) Fluency in
• 11) Ability to
• 12) Suitable for
 There is ONE mistake in each of the sentences below, identify the error in each one,
then go on to the next slide to see if you were right.

1) I am not satisfied with the service here and I

demand to speak to your responsable.
2) I have worked as a sales assistant in a shop last
summer.
3) He is one of the most senior manager in the
company.
4) In his work he is responsible of dealing with
customer complaints.
5) Your future career prospects will depend of
your performance over the next six months.
 In this slide the errors are identified, did you find them? Can you correct them?

1) I am not satisfied with the service here and I

demand to speak to your responsable.
2) I have worked as a sales assistant in a shop last
summer.
3) He is one of the most senior manager in the
company.
4) In his work he is responsible of dealing with
customer complaints.
5) Your future career prospects will depend of
your performance over the next six months.
 Did you find the mistakes?
1) I am not satisfied with the service here and I
demand to speak to your manager/supervisor.
In fact there are two mistakes here because the word ‘responsible’ is
spelled with an ‘i’ and not with an ‘a’; also this word can never be a
personal noun –it is only an adjective.
2) I worked as a sales assistant in a shop last
summer. Last summer obliges you to use the past simple ‘worked’
and not the present perfect ‘have worked’
3) He is one of the most senior managers in the
company. After one of we must make the noun managers plural.
4) In his work he is responsible for dealing with
customer complaints. Preposition for after responsible.
5) Your future career prospects will depend on
your performance over the next six months.
Preposition on after depend.
 Exercice 8, page 27
Make sure you understand all the vocabulary in the list. My own
personal list of what is most important to least important is as
follows:
1) Long holidays
2) Competitive salary
3) Friendly colleagues
4) Good pension
5) Flexible hours
6) Foreign travel
7) Travelling time (commute)
8) Other perks or fringe benefits
9) Pleasant working environment
10) Regular bonus
11) Opportunity for promotion
12) Prestigious company
Do you know how to translate
the following terms into
French? Commute (attention faux ami ici)
/ perks / fringe benefits.
Look them up in a dictionary if you’re
not sure, they could appear in your
end of term test.
 Exercice 2b, page 28

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercise 2b, page 28 (réponses)

• 1) He has lived in south London since he was five

• 2) He’s been working at home for the last three
years.
• 3) British Telecom was one of the first companies
to introduce homeworking
 Exercice 5a, page 28

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercise 5a, page 28 (réponses)

1) Time consuming b) Taking up a lot of time

(chronophage)
2) Time management a) Organising your time effectively

3) Workstation e) The place in an office where a

person works, especially with a
computer (poste de travail)
4) Work-life balance c) How much time you spend at work
and home.
5) Spend time d) Use time doing something (passer
du temps)
 Exercice 5b, page 29

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercise 5b, page 29

• 1) time management
• 2) Spend a lot of time
• 3) Time consuming
• 4) Workstations
• 5) Work life balance
 Exercice 6a, page 29

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercise 6a, page 29 (réponses)
• 1: true. For example ‘I have been learning English
for over 5 years now.’
• 2: False. It is used to talk about actions which are
still going on now.
• 3: True. For example ‘I teach English, I have been
teaching English since 1986’.
• 4: True. FOR is used for durations (for one week,
for ten days, for an hour, for two years, for ages
etc.) SINCE is used to indicate when the action
started off (since 4 O’Clock, since I woke up;
since Christmas; since 1st July etc.)
• 5) True. For example ‘I have been waiting for the
bus for twenty minutes now.’
• Notez que qu’en francais la traduction de FOR
et SINCE est toujours ‘depuis’.
 Exercice 6b, page 29

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercise Exercise 6b, page 29 (réponses)

We use SINCE + a point in time

(when the activity started) and FOR +
a period of time.
 Exercice 6c, page 29

Faites cet exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercice 6c, page 29 (réponses)

1) Christina has been working as a designer since she graduated.

2) I have known Yukio for six months. (Why not ‘have been
knowing’? We’ll see later!)
3) How long has Mohamed been studying engineering at university?
4) Fuat has been living in Instanbul since he got a job there. OR Fuat
has lived in Instabul since he got a job there. (Why are both correct?
We’ll see later!)
5) Mariana has been working at home for two years. OR Mariana has
worked at home for two years. (Why are both correct? We’ll see
later!)
6) I have not been living here for very long. OR I have not lived here
for very long. (Why are both correct? We’ll see later!)
7) Ji Hyun has been feeling sick since yesterday morning.
8) Have Mark and Julie been teaching at the same college for a year?
Exercice 5c, page 29 (explications)
I have known Yukio for six months. (Why not ‘have been knowing’?)
Jo Hyun has understood the problem since yesterday morning. (Why not
‘has been understanding’?)
Certain verbs refuse the continuous form in English even when the situation
demands a continuous form.
Other examples of these ‘capricious’ verbs are:
to know, to see, to need, to like, to love, to hate, to detest, to understand, to
own, to belong to, to posess, to have when it is a synonym for to posess, to
believe, to think when it is a synonym for to believe.
To understand this phenomenon better try using these same verbs in the French
present tense placing ‘en train de’ in front of them and see how bizarre it looks.
Je suis en train de connaître Yukio.
Nous sommes en train de voir la maison, mais elle est encore loin.
Elle est en train d’avoir besoin d’un parapluie car il pleut dehors
Etes-vous en train d’avoir une voiture?

But what about the McDonald’s slogan ‘I’m lovin’ it’? – My only answer is that
perhaps the grammar error is what gives it its charm, and remember the old
adage: ‘Rules are made to be broken’.
Exercise 5c, page 29 (explications)
Fuat has been living in Instanbul since he got a job there. OR Fuat has
lived in Instabul since he got a job there.
Mariana has been working at home for two years. OR Mariana has
worked at home for two years.
Why are both correct?

We can often replace the Present Perfect Continuous with the

Present Perfect Simple even when the context demands a Present
Perfect Continuous form.

If the original idea in the present tense was in the Present Simple
then we can use the P P Simple instead of the P P Continuous.
For example: ‘He lives in London, he has lived there for two years
now.’ ‘I teach English, I’ve taught it for nearly thirty years now.’

If the original idea in the present tense was in the Present

Continuous then we must use the P P Continuous.
For example: ‘She is waiting for the bus, she has been waiting for
the bus for over ten minutes now. ‘Susan is reading War and Peace,
she’s been reading that book for nealy a year now.
 Exercice 5c, page 29 (explication)

1) Remember that the ‘capricious’ verbs can

never take the Present Perfect Continuous.
2) Remember that, even though, we can
sometimes replace the Present Perfect
Continuous by the Present Perfect simple,
it is not an obligation, and if you prefer
you can leave them all in the Present
Perfect continuous if you find it less
confusing.
 Exercise 6d, page 29
• FOR just a few days
• SINCE Monday
• FOR hours
• SINCE we moved
• FOR two weeks
• SINCE 2011
• SINCE 8 O’clock
 Exercice 8a, page 29
www,english,com/students/languageleader, intermediate audio, unit 3, recording 2
-https://www.youtube.com/embed/rH1IBrpArdk

• Translator
• Writer
• Contract work in design
• Running a small business from home for a
lock manufacturer
 Exercice 8b, page 29 (réponses)
• Translator : 2 years; like yes; easier to manage the
work life balance.
• Writer : 18 months; like no; paying more for
heating at home, misses the gossip, lonely.
• Designer : since January; like yes; no commute on
crowded trains, more free time.
• Independent worker : six years; likes yes very
much; spends more time with family, saves money
on commuting, but misses working in a team with
office friends.
 Exercice 9, page 29 (réponses)

1) I’ve been translating from Italian...

2) We’ve been living in Milan for nearly five years.
3) How long have you been working from home
for?
4) I’ve been paying a lot more for heating.
5) I’ve never been a morning person.
6) I’ve been learning a new language since January
7) I’ve been taking lessons for the last six months.
8) He hasn’t been working at home much recently.
 Exercices 2b, page 30.

Stop!
Lisez le texte (pages 31) d’abord et
ensuite faites l’exercice dans votre
livre.
 Exercices 2b, page 30. (réponses)

1) Tom
2) Sabrina
3) Azra
4) Charlotte
5) Sabrina
6) Azra
7) Tom
8) Charlotte
 Exercices 5, page 30. (réponses)

a) The Present Perfect Simple focusses more on the

completed action (sometimes with a number).
Examples:
I’ve already drunk three cups of coffee today.
She has only read five of the twenty chapters in the
novel.

b) The Present Perfect Continuous focusses more on

the activity itself and its duration. Examples:
I’ve been drinking coffee nearly all my life.
She’s been reading that novel for almost three weeks
now.
 Another explanation:
a) We use the present perfect continuous to
emphasise that an action started in the past
and is still continuing. (« Jean Pierre has been
learning English for seven years » donc il
apprends l’anglais toujours)
b) We use the present perfect simple to
emphasise that an action started in the past
and is completed. (Jean Pierre has been to
New York il a été à New York dans le passé
mais nous ne savons pas quand, si on le
savait ce serait Jean Pierre went to New York
two years ago.)
 Exercice 7, page 30

Faites l’exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercice 7, page 30 (réponses)

1) have been looking.

2) have been learning.
3) has been.
4) has been helping.
5) has been working.
6) have been working/have worked.
7) has been working/has worked.
8) has not been enjoying.
9) have you been doing
10) have interviewed
 Exercice 7, page 34

Faites l’exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercice 7, page 34 (réponses)

1) Position
2) Degree (licence en français)
3) Delighted (ravi en français)
4) Skills (compétences en français)
5) Work placement (stage en français, en anglais on dit aussi
‘internship’)
6) Available for interview.
7) Look forward (formule de politesse très souvent utilisée pour
terminer une lettre; autres exemples: ‘I look forward to hearing
from you in the near future / I look forward to seeing you at the
conference / I look forward to doing business with you.
Click on the link below and do
the activity.
http://www.quia.com/cz/49143.html
 Exercice 10, page 35

Faites l’exercice dans votre livre

avant de continuer.
 Exercice 10, page 35, réponses

1) Graduate
2) Fast-expanding
3) Numerate
4) Diploma
5) Graduate trainee
6) Voluntary
7) Work placement
8) Cycle regularly. Play tennis in a local
club.
Read the Language Reference on
page 130 in your book and then
do all the exercises on page 131.

Do not move on to the following slides

on this presentation until you have
completed all the exercises on page 139.
 Exercice 1 (G1), page 131 (réponses)

1) FOR
2) FOR
3) SINCE
4) SINCE
5) FOR
 Exercice 2, page 131 (réponses)

1) Rose has been building this house since 1995.

2) I’ve been reading all day
3) How long have you been working here?
4) They haven’t been studying hard enough.
5) We have been teaching at this school for two…
6) He hasn’t been getting enough sleep…
7) He’s been having guitar lessons for ages…
8) …I haven’t been watching the TV recently.
 Exercice 3 (G2), page 131 (réponses)

1) We’ve prepared
2) I’ve been packing
3) Have you been waiting long?
4) How long have we been driving now?
5) I’ve written
6) We’ve only seen
7) Have they been here
8) I’ve been working
 Exercice 4 (KL), page 131 (réponses)

1) In
2) About
3) On
4) Up
5) Into
6) to
 Exercice 5, page 131 (réponses)

1) Just one last question.

2) I’m glad you asked me that.
3) That’s a very good question.
4) Let me just think about that for a moment.
5) I really haven’t thought about that.
6) I thought you might ask me that.
 Exercice 6 (V1), page 131 (réponses)

1) Glamorous
2) Stressful
3) Flexible
4) Rewarding
5) Challenging
 Exercice 7 (V2), page 131 (réponses)

1) We’re looking for a candidate with a degree.

2) I wouldn’t depend on her to remember.
3) We need someone with fluency in Polish.
4) Knowledge of Java programming would be
helpful.
5) My experience in/of management is limited.
6) You’ll report to me.
7) There’re(sic) good prospects for promotion.
 Exercice 8 (V3), page 131 (réponses)

1) Time
2) Work
3) Time
4) Work
5) Time
Congratulations, you have
completed part 3 of this
online course.