Verb forms for talking about your career
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 792.
Language review
C. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. All the words are used
with ‘career'
| be over break chosen concentrate on ladder make move opportunities promising take off |
1. You can ___________________ a good career for yourself as a lawyer. But you'll have to work a lot. For the next few years you'll have to ________________ your career, not your social life.
2. If you have children, you'll need to take a career ________________. But don't worry – your skills are always in demand, and I'm sure that your career will _________________ when you're in your forties.
3. Changing from financial consultant to yoga teacher is a very drastic career ______________. It means that your career in finance will ________________.
4. He's bright young man with a very ____________career in front of him. I'm sure he'll move up the career ______________ very quickly.
5. She achieved a lot in her _________________ career. She took advantage of the many career_________________ available in IT project management and went right to the top of her profession.
| Past simple: completed actions and situations in the past Single actions: I got a place at university. A sequence of single actions: I joined the company in February, finished my training after four weeks, and started the job properly in March. Situations that lasted for some time: I lived on campus. |
| Past continuous: actions and situations in progress in the past (ie background events) I was living the life of a typical young person in the finance sector. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. |
| Past perfect: making it clear that one action or event in the past happened before another I had saved up money from the job in the bank, and so… I had already quit my job when they … |
| Combination: background situation + actions during this time My salary was increasing year by year and so I bought an apartment. While I was working as a sales assistant, another company invited me to join them. |
| Combination: one action before another I had saved up money and so I was able to go traveling. I had already quit my job when they announced the job cuts. |
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