2 answer the phone / notes /emailS

a) Who says these sentences — Frank, Janet or Liz?

3 take contracts /meSSageS / notes
4 sign contracts /letters / meetings
s work [or a company /in an office /a
report
6 go to meetings /contracts /c
7 write to a contract /CuStomer /company
Work in groups. Tallt about what you
(and /or people you know) do at work.
4 I’m waiting for a taxi. Frank
2 They’re sitting in your office. Janet
3 They aren’t looking very happy. Janet
4 She’s working at home today. Liz
s I’m not doing anything important at the moment. Liz
6 Danny isn’t doing anything. Liz
b) Listen again and check your answers.

Listening and Grammar

a) Look at pictures 1 and 2. It’s 9.50 a.m.
Where are the people?
b) Listen. What is Frank’s problem? a) Are the sentences in 4a) about now or every day?
c) Listen again and choose the correct b) We use be + verb+ing to make the Present Continuous.
answers. Fill in the gaps in the tables.
4 Frank isn’t at work because the bUS/train
was late.
2 The meeting with the Tamada
brothers is at ten/eleven o’clock.
3 Frank wants Janet to Start the meeting
/ wait for him.
4 The contract is F-rank’S/ Janet S. e) Write the -ing form of these verbs.
s Adriana is in the office /at home.
6 Janet wants Liz to take notes in the play playing smoke smoking
meeting / study studying sitting
finish some reports. looking going running writing
living stopping

d) Check in p141.
 O Allina4ay'nwork
9A meeting Vocabulary work
Grammar Present Continuous for ’now
Review jobs; common verbs
”The

VocabularyWork
a) Tick the words you know. Then do the
exercise in Language Summary 9
pl40.

a a reportnotes a letter
customer a contracta company
a message a conference Jane
a meeting
b) Which word does not go with the verb?
write eus/ee+ers /reports / letters
 9A Vocabulary and Grammar

4 Where are they having the meeting?

a) What is Frank doing at the end of the phone call?rite
questions 3 and 4 from 9 in the table.
question auxiliary subject verb+/ng
Danny word
Where is Frank calling from?
the taxi moving?

b) Write positive and negative short answers

for these questions.
) Am 1 working here today?
Yes, you ore. /No, ...
1s Janet answering her phone?
3 Are they having the meeting now?
@ Listen and practise. e) Check in pl4l.
I’m wo‘iting for o taxi.

a) Look at picture 3. Liz is talking to Danny. It’s

9.55 a.m. Put the verbs in the Present Continuous. Who signs the contract, do you think —
J an et or Frank? Listen and check.
LIZ Danny, are you busy?
DANNY Well, er, 1 l (write) a letter.
a) It’s now 6.30 p.m. Frank is talking to his wife,
Liz Can you take notes at the meeting, please? Karen, on the phone. Make questions in the
DANNY Why me? Look, Bob '........ (read) the Present Continuous.
newspaper. Ask him.
Liz He '............... (not read) the newspaper. He FRANK Hi! It’s me.
•............... (study) the business pages. KAREN Hello, darling. you / still / work ?
OANNY Well, 1 • ......... (wait) for a phone call from Are you still working?
New York. FRANK No, I’m having a drink with Liz. I signed
Liz They 6....... .. .. . (not work) in New York now, the contract today.
Danny' It’s 5.00 a.m. there! itAREN Oh, that’s wonderful! °you / have a niCe time ?
DANNY OK, OK, I '. . .. ...... (go) now. Which room? FRANC Yes, thanks. 3What /you / do ?
KAREN 1 m making dinner.
b) Listen and check your answers.
FRANK *the kids / do / their homework ?
KAREN Er . . . no, they’re not.
Work in pairs. It’s 10.05 a.m. What are these people
FRANK S Whot / they / do ?
doing now, do you think?
KAREN They’re watching TV
Jane 3 The Tamada brothers 5 Fra
t nk b) Listen and check.
Bob 4 Danny 6 Liz C) Listen and practise the questions
I think janet's having a meeting. in )2a).
Are you still working?
@ It’s now 10.15 a.m. Frank is phoning Liz.
Listen and answer the questions.
i„
1 Where is Frank calling from?
2 1s the taxi moving? Work in two groups. Group A • pl 10.
3 What are Janet and Danny doing? Group B pl 18. Follow the instructions.