Unit 10 – An Appointment

An Appointment

Discussing life at work

The unit’s objective is to familiarize students with essential vocabulary and syntax necessary to hold a lower intermediate conversation about one’s daily life at work: Job titles, daily activities, office hours, colleagues, etc.

Hours: Approximately 10 hours

Unit Objectives:

1. By the end of the unit, you should be able to:
   • Describe your daily activities at work, your colleagues, and work hours.
   • Ask questions about someone’s daily work activities, colleagues, and working hours.
   • Describe someone’s daily activities at work to a third party.
2. The unit provides students with a general vocabulary needed to describe one’s professional life and keywords one may encounter daily in a work environment. For students to explore the language best suited to their professional life, the guided exercises are paired with spoken activities to build terminology linked to their personal experiences.

Associated exercises

• Cue Cards: life at work
• The letters of the alphabet