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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
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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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