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‘take after my parents in that | ike ‘working outside. We ive ona farm that has been handed down from generation to generation in my family, so there are always things to do, When | was twenty, I started running the farm. Nowadays | ‘work atleast ten hours a day. 'm looking forward to retiring one day but that won't bbe for another few years!” (Jake) “Itook over te familys law business {en years ago. When my mother handed ‘over responsibility to me, it realise how much workit was. | spend most ‘of my days inthe office trying to keep ‘up with our cases. | probably sit at my desk for twelve hours a day and drink about six cups of coffe! I'm toking into ‘employing another lawyer to ease ‘some of the pressure’ (Suki) sed to workin ut up withthe wis always dear Eventually | coul ‘bought camp ‘the time and jobs | balieve not 2A Match captions 1-5 with picures aE. 1 She seemed perfect for the job so we took her ‘n. But she got bored and took up parachuting 2 You have to hand in your valuables at the front desk. They hand them back ven you leave. 3 We've put together a plan to raise money to ‘ebuild the house. We cant put t off any longer 4 You can't spend your whole lfe looking back at your mistakes. You should abvays look ahead. 5 While he wos sleeping, my husband kept on talking about monsters! Then today he told me tokeep to the main road! B Motch the multi-word verbs in bold in Exercise 1A definitions 1-10. Put the multi:word verbs in the 1 stay on a particular path ar course of action 2 delay something 3. think about something that happened in the past. 4 return something. 5 employ someone 6 start a now hobby/actvity 7 8 9 prepare something by collecting eas and Continue doing something think about/pan for che fue ¥ 10. give something to someone nauthoiy

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