Vocabulary

MAKING A LIVING
QUALIFICATIONS
qualification = training courses, skills
 Candidates with a qualification in Chemistry have
exemption from this course.
 The preparatory certificate is the minimum qualification
required to teach English in most language schools.
 No formal qualifications are required for the work - you'll
get on-the-job training.
 With her qualifications and experience, she would seem
to be ideally suited to the job.
 Please list your educational qualifications and work
experience.
DEGREE
degree = the qualification given to a student after he or she
has completed his or her studies
 A degree in computer science offers a fast track to the top.
 At work she kept up the fiction that she had a university
degree.
 UK Adrian has a double honours degree in English and
philosophy.
 Gone are the days when a university degree was a meal
ticket for life.
 There is a predominance of people with an arts degree on
the board of governors.
 I have/hold a degree in Economics.
THE CAREER LADDER

 prospects = the possibility of being successful

She's hoping the course will improve her career
prospects.
 work (one’s way) up to [position]

 progress to

He started as an apprentice but quickly

progressed to foreman.
 be promoted to [position]
EXPRESS OPINIONS

 I think...
 I believe...

 In my opinion/view...

 To my mind...

 To me...

 I strongly believe...
ASKING FOR OPINION

 What do you think about...?

 What’s your opinion...?

 Don’t you agree...?

AGREEING

 I couldn’t agree more...

 I quite agree with you...

 That’s true...

 I partly agree...

 concur with sb on smth

 be of the same mind about smth

 be of like mind
DISAGREEING

 I don’t think so...

 I don’t agree...

 I don’t feel...

 Perhaps you’re right, but on the other hand...

 That’s not quite the way I see it...

 I see what you mean, but...

 I beg to differ.
SOURCES

 Evans, Virginia, Bob Obee. Upstream Upper

Intermediate. Express Publishing, 2005.
 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/