Intermediate B1 / Lesson 1

Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:

• volunteer
• blue-collar
• nine-to-five
• contractor
• contract
• white-collar
• part-time
• permanent
• temporary
• full-time

1. The position of President of the United States is a job – at most you can hold it for two four-year terms.
   
2. I have a typical job – I wake up and get home at exactly the same time every day.
   
3. The position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice is a one – members hold their jobs for life.
   
4. When my firm needed an audit for business purposes last year, we used an independent instead of our in-house accounting staff.
   
5. You can't qualify for all the employee benefits unless you work , and that means at least forty hours a week, and not more than two weeks of holiday a year.
   
6. My dad has a typical job – he works as a line operator at an auto factory in Detroit.
   
7. jobs are ones like office manager, surgeon, paralegal, etc...
   
8. I just signed a new at work – it gives me a ten percent raise in salary and a promotion!
   
9. During college, I worked as a bartender, just a few hours every night, to make a little extra spending money.
   
10. My sister does work at the homeless shelter downtown several times a month.