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                                               Function              Language              Vocabulary

              Roles and responsibilities  p. 4   Talking about roles and   Present simple and present   Jobs
                                        responsibilities      continuous             Roles and responsibilities
              Structure of an organisation  p. 6   Explaining how an organisation    Departments in an organisation
          -*                            works                                        Collocations with prepositions
           o
            Teamv  Jobs and experience  p. 8   Describing your job and   Questions with be   experience
                                                                                     Expressions for describing work
                                                                        do/does/did
                                        experience Writing your CV
                                                              Questions with
            it 1                                              Question words
           c   Focus on a project:  International  Discussing roles in an            New developments
              Finance Centre (IFC) Seoul,   international construction
              Korea  p. 10              project
              Review  p. 11
              Technical drawing  p. 12   Describing technical drawings   Dimensions (imperial and   2D and 3D shapes
                                                              metric)                Vocabulary relating to technical
                                                                                     drawing
               Estimates  p. 14         Estimating            Zero conditional       Collocations relating to
            Design  Design  Ideas and improvements  p. 16   Discussing ideas and   Introducing and responding to   estimating

                                                                                     Office features
            Jnit 2  Jnit 2              improvements          ideas
               Focus on a project: Light tubes in   Discussing light tube technology   Light tubes
               Potsdamer  Platz, Berlin  p. 18

               Review  p. 19
               Talking about equipment  p 20   Talking about equipment   Asking and answering questions  Equipment and its uses
                                                              about equipment

            pment   Faults  p. 22       Explaining faults     Passive with be and get;   Faults
                                                              get + adjective
            Equi  Repairs  p .24        Dealing with repairs   need  to (+ inf); need (+ -ing)   Repairs
            t3
           c
           3   Focus on a project: The Shard,   Discussing equipment for a           Tower construction
               London  p. 26            skyscraper  project

               Review  p. 27
               Ordering materials  p. 28   Ordering materials   The passive          Ordering materials

               Properties of materials  p. 30   Describing properties of   Comparatives   Properties of materials
            rials                       materials

            Mate  Delivery problems  p. 32   Explaining delivery  problems  Asking for clarification   Delivery problems
            t4
           c   Focus on a project:  Bahrain  Discussing problems and                 Materials used in the
               International Circuit Formula 1   solutions involving materials       construction of the Bahrain
               (BIC)  p. 34                                                          International Circuit
               Review  p. 35




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