Jobs, Work Routines & The 4-Day Workweek

This multi-skill resource includes:

• Reading & Vocabulary: An authentic-style article on the global “four-day workweek” trial featuring the Spanish tech company “Hack a Boss”. This is paired with collocations for daily responsibilities—such as overseeing a team, meeting deadlines, and reporting directly to—alongside a practical study of 10 essential office phrasal verbs, including log in, catch up on, take over, and wrap up.

• Grammar Practice: A clear, contextualized deep dive comparing the Present Simple (for habits, routines, and permanent states) and the Present Continuous (for temporary projects, current tasks, and changing situations). It features a dedicated focus on stative vs. active verb exceptions (like agree, love, like, know, have) to eliminate common intermediate mistakes.

• Listening & Video: Highly engaging comprehension and vocabulary tasks based on a real-world Indeed video, “A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer.” Students follow a professional’s daily routine, practice functional listening, and complete a vocabulary gap-fill using contextual jargon like infrastructure, budget, deadlines, and site drainage.

• Speaking & Pronunciation: Natural discussion prompts exploring work-life balance, job satisfaction, and career paths. The lesson features a dedicated pronunciation section focused on natural contraction production in the Present Continuous (such as I’m working, she’s wrapping up, and we’re catching up).

• Teacher Materials: A complete teacher’s answer key and slide decks fully localized into separate, ready-to-teach British English (UK) and American English (USA) variants.

Exclusive Premium Features:

• Interactive “Conversation Cards” Speaking Activity: A beautifully formatted, collaborative speaking task featuring a deck of 30 dynamic workplace prompts. Students practice distinguishing between the simple and continuous aspects, form correct questions, and naturally interview their partners to build speaking stamina.

• The “Don’t Say It!” Vocabulary Challenge: An exciting, fast-paced vocabulary game containing 20 custom printable cards targeting key office routines and phrasal verbs (such as commute, oversee, wrap up, and deadline). Working under a 60-second timer, students must describe their target word to teammates without using any of the three forbidden “Can’t say!” words—promoting active circumlocution, fluency, and synonym recall.

• Comprehensive Homework Pack: A multi-page consolidation and assessment packet. It contains active vocabulary revision tasks, sentence-unscrambling drills, and an integrated reading, grammar, and lexical challenge themed around a realistic “Madrid Office Expansion” email.