WORK AND LEISURE 

 
VOCABULARY 
 
Exercise 1: Word Pairs 
What do people want from work? There are four people who answered this question. Find out 
their answers by pairing the words from column A with column B to create a word pair. 
 

  A    B 
high    colleagues 

Person 1  long    salary 

helpful    holidays 

company    phone 

Person 2  mobile    facilities 

parking    car 

friendly    security 

Person 3  travel    opportunities 

job    boss 

fast    facilities 

Person 4  flexible    promotion 

sports    hours 
 
Exercise 2: Definitions 
Using the words you found in Exercise 1, find the word that matches the definitions below: 
 
1. A lot of money 
2. A lot of time away from work 
3. Good people to work with 
4. The chance to go to different places on business 
5. Move quickly to a higher position at work 
6. You can change the times when you start and finish work 
 
Exercise 3: in / at / on 
Complete these time phrases with in, at or on. 
 
1. _____ night  4. _____ Thursday  7. _____ June 
2. _____ the autumn  5. _____ the afternoon  8. _____ New Year 
3. _____ 15th February  6. _____ Tuesday evening  9. _____ the weekend 
 
Exercise 4: Discussion 
 
1. When are the busy times at your company? 
2. When are the quiet times in your company? 
3. Which moments in the year do you particularly enjoy? Why? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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GRAMMAR 
 
Exercise 5: Present Simple 
Complete the article below about a typical working day of Darren Throop using the verbs from 
the box. 
 
checks  does  drives  finishes  gets  has  likes  makes  spends  travels 
 
 
Darren Throop ______ up at 6 a.m. and  At lunch time, he ______ a salad at his desk. 
______ some exercise in the gym in his  At work, he ______ a lot of time in meetings 
house. At about 6:30, he ______ breakfast  and on conference calls. He ______ his 
for his two daughters. Then he ______ his  office day at about 5 p.m. He ______ on 
emails in his home office. He ______ to  business a lot, so he ______ to spend all his 
work.   free time with his family. 
 
Exercise 6: Cloze Test 
Complete this information about Masami Kimura. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets. 
 
I’m Masami Kimura and I’m married with two children, Aiko and Katsuki. They ______ (go) to an 
international school. My husband’s name is Seito. He ______ (work) for a shipping company, and 
I ______ (work) for an international securities company. 
We ______ (live) in Tokyo, near Shinjuku. I ______ (travel) to work by subway, but Seito ______ 
(drive) to work. We both ______ (like) sports and travelling. At the weekend, we ______ (play) 
golf or we ______ (go) camping. 
 
 
LISTENING 
 
Exercise 7: First Part 
Listen to the first part of an interview with Ros Pomeroy and answer the question: 
● What does she like most about her job? 
 
Exercise 8: First Part (2) 
Listen again to the first part and complete the notes below: 
 
Ros can be: 
● in ______ 
● ______ a workshop or a ______ 
● in her own ______ in front of a ______ screen 
● on the ______ 
 
Exercise 9: Second Part 
Listen to the second part of the interview and answer the following questions: 
 
1. What two things sometimes make it difficult to find enough time for leisure? 
2. Overall, does Ros have enough time for leisure? 
 
Exercise 10: Final Part 
Before listening to the final part, try to answer this question: 
● What do you think Ros likes doing to relax? 
 
Check your answer by listening to the last part of the interview. 
 
 
 
 
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CONVERSATION 
 
Exercise 11: Matching Type 
Match the questions in column A to the answers in column B. 
 

A  B 
1. What do you do in your job?  a. Usually about six o’clock. 
2. What do you like best about your job?  b. I manage a web team at an IT 
3. How many hours a week do you  company. 
work/study?  c. From time to time. We sometimes go 
4. When do you finish work?  for a meal. 
5. Do you meet your colleagues after  d. I play golf. 
work?  e. I work flexible hours, which is great. 
6. What do you do in your free time?  f. Between 30 and 35 hours. 
 
Exercise 12: Cloze Test 
Complete the extract below from a conversation using the words from the box. 
 
enjoy  interested  into  love  love  playing  really  watching 
 
Pat:  What do you do in your free time? 

Tim:  I ______ sports. I ______ like karate and I ______ playing golf. But I’m not really 
______ in watching sport on TV. I don’t ______ watching professional golf, for 
example. What about you? 

Pat:  I like golf too, but I’m also ______ French cinema and jazz music. I like ______ DVDs 
and I really enjoy going to concerts. I also like ______ the guitar. I’m interested in 
computer games, but I’m not very good at them. 
 
Exercise 13: Role-play 
Take turns asking and answering questions with your teacher related to the questions from 
Exercise 11.