Study the following work-patterns, note down the words in bold type, find their explanations below and give their Russian equivalents.

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Ex.3.14. During the day (different work-patterns).

To ask before you could guess the job?

1) Most of the day I do routine tasks, but occasionally there's a crisis or I have to meet a deadline. At certain times of the year I have a very heavy workload but at other times it can be quite light.

2) I start work at my machine at seven o'clock when I'm on the day shift. The job's very mechanical and repetitive. All I ever think about is knocking off at three. The shift I hate most is the night shift. I start at ten and work all night till six in the morning. The job's a bit monotonous.

3) I have a glamorousjob. I'm a pilot. The hours are irregularand antisocial, but I'm not stuck behind a desk and there's a lot of variety. The stress levelscan be quite high when you know people's lives depend on you. I feel sorry for people who are stuck in a rut or working in dead-end jobs.

a) stuck in a job people can't escape from g) (infml) finishing work

b) have sth finished by a fixed day or time h) (infml) sitting in an office all day

c) jobs with no prospects of promotion i) the same thing every day

d) you don't have to think about what j) boring because it never changes

you're doing k) amount of work I have to do

e) very exciting, which everyone admires

f) do not enable one to have a normal social life

Daily work routines