Pre-intermediate

Investigating and solving problems

Asking and answering basic questions

1 Speaking
Work with a partner.

• What adjectives describe your typical working day?

• Tell your partner about your typical day. Are your days similar or very different?

2 Reading
Read the email from Sally to her friend John about her new job and answer the questions.

• What do you think her job is?

• Would you like to have this job?

3 Reading
Read the email again and answer these questions.

1. What does she do when she gets to work?

2. How long does it take to reply to her emails?

3. How often are the 10am meetings?

4. What does she speak about in the meetings?

5. Are the presentations easy or difficult?

6. Where does she have lunch?

7. What does she talk to colleagues about?

8. Why does she visit clients?

Check with a partner.

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Investigating and solving problems
Asking and answering basic questions

4 Language
If you work – which of these things do you do at work? If you don’t work – think of a job you would
like and decide which of these things are in a typical day.

call/visit/meet clients go on business trips

chat with colleagues have meetings

check/answer emails prepare/make presentations

check schedules prepare figures

discuss problems write/send reports

Tell your partner which you like doing/would like to do and why.

5 Language
Complete the following questions about a typical work day.

1. What do you ?

2. Where do you ?

3. What you do when you get to work?

4. How long it take you to check your emails?

5. How often you have meetings?

6. do you discuss in the meetings?

7. Do you presentations at work?

8. your job easy or difficult?

6 Pronunciation
Work with a partner. Does your voice go up () or down () when you ask the above questions?

Ask your partner the questions.

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Investigating and solving problems
Asking and answering basic questions

7 Speaking
Work with a partner and discuss which of the people in the box has…

• the most interesting day?

• the most boring day?
• the most difficult day?
• the easiest day?

a teacher a footballer a doctor a journalist

a politician a police officer a banker an engineer

a farmer a pilot a gardener a lawyer

8 Speaking
Work in a small group. Interview each person in your group and find out about their day. Decide
who has the most interesting day.

Notes

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