Conversation
After a quick greeting, use the following questions as a guideline to form an interesting conversation with your tutor. Feel free to diverge from these suggestions if anything interesting comes up.
- Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
- What are the benefits of hiring employees for their entire lives?
- What are some negative aspects of hiring employees for their entire lives?
- What kind of company would you want to work at for your entire life?
Vocabulary
Skip this section if you have 15 minute plan. Read the word/expression and definition out loud, and your tutor will go over anything you do not understand. Practice creating a sentence or two to make sure you know how to use the word/expression properly.
Vocabulary/ Expressions
| Expression | Definition |
| career | (n) occupation undertaken for a significant period of time She had so many careers at one time. |
| salary | (n) fixed payment, wages He was pleased with the salary that came with the position. |
| lifelong | (adj) lasting or remaining in a particular state throughout a person’s life She wanted this job to be part of her lifelong career. |
| stable | (adj) not likely to give way She wanted to work in a stable job where she knew what was expected of her. |
| affect | (v) make a difference Wherever you work, you can affect positive change. |
| master | (v) acquire complete skill of something With practice, they could eventually master the process. |
| bump up | (expression) increase He asked his manager to bump up his wages. |
| check off | (expression) mark something in a list as done After that experience, she could check off swimming with dolphins on her list. |
| decide on | (expression) choose, select She couldn’t decide on which career path to take. |
| work for peanuts | (expression) labor for very little money He felt underappreciated as he worked for peanuts every day. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
― Gordon Hinckley
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