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COMMUNICATION Extra vocabulary make a bundle

can’t stand
burn the midnight oil

1 The 4Teen website has launched a forum for teens to discuss their career paths. Read these posts
and underline the reasons for their choices.

Tu: People tell me I can sing. So I’m going Anh: I’m going to be an architect because
to enroll in a school for performing I like designing and engineering. It’s
arts. I hope to become an opera singer! a meaningful job. Good architecture
I’ll be famous, travel all over I’ll be famous, travel all over can improve people’s
the world and meet different lives. My mum is a
people. I’ll be able to make a people. I’ll be able to make a successful architect
bundle! and it’s good that
she works flexitime.
I want to be like her.

Duong: I’m planning to study physics at Dzung: I don’t know what to do in the future.
university. I’m always curious about But I definitely won’t become a doctor.
how and why the natural world My sister’s studying medicine. She has to
works the way it does. I’ll become burn the midnight oil,
a physicist so that I can studying at university
find answers to my own and working at the
questions about the hospital. I couldn’t
world. stand that.

2 Read the posts again. In groups, discuss and decide 3 a Work in pairs. Tell your partner
whose reasons for choosing/not choosing the job you about a job you want/don’t want
agree with and whose you disagree with. Say why. to do in the future. Remember to
You can start with the phases below: say why or why not.

I’m artistic. I want to become a fashion
Agreeing with an Disagreeing with an designer because I like fashion and I think
opinion opinion it’s a creative job.

· I agree with Anh’s · I can’t agree with Tu’s
reasons for studying reason for becoming a
architecture singer because…
because… · He may be right, but…
· She’s (absolutely) · That’s not entirely true.
right. · I’m sorry to disagree with
· Yes, I (totally) agree. him, but…
· I think so too. · Yes, but don’t you think…
· Exactly. That’s true. · I’m not so sure about that. b Report your decisions to another pair
· That’s a good point. or to the class.

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