Essay on advantages of working online from home

- Overall, essays were ok, however most people didn’t go into enough detail about the advantages
(specific language)
- If you chose flexibility and comfort, you needed to make sure that you organized your ideas well
- Quite a few people forgot to answer the final question – which is the most significant advantage
- There were some problems with clarity – could be planning time, or trying to over complicate. Don’t
write as you speak!
Content – using specific examples and
exploring the topic more fully improves the
Accuracy and range: content and range.
• …taking more profit take advantage of of the • Why might it be more
time you have disposable comfortable/convenient to work at
• Arrive to meet a deadline home? specifically?
• In different other words / to put it another way • How is having flexibility and comfort
different?
• Move in / move around (travel to work
commute) • Imagine yourself working at home – what
are the challenges?
• People is are • How much time, on average, do workers
• As I have just said spend commuting to work?
• In jobs such as marketing, for instance… • What are the costs involved in commuting
to work?
• Make/take profit of the time to do other things
• The less fewer distractions
How can you start a topic sentence?
Some options below…check thee out before you start your next essay.
• In today’s day and age, many people are able to earn a living from working
remotely, that is to say, away from a central office and usually in their own
homes.
• Due to advances in technology and the changing world of work, many businesses
are interested in offering employees the chance to work from home.
• When it comes to working from home,
• Working from home can save time and money because there is no need to
commute.
• Commuting from home can be costly and time-consuming for many employees.
• One advantage of working from home can be the time and money saved by not
having to travel
• Another benefit of working from home is….
• A further advantage worth mentioning is that of a more flexible work schedule
 The language of protest
Complete these expressions with the missing words
• To be opposed __ (e.g big business not paying taxes) (AGAINST) To
• To demonstrate ___ favour ___ (e.g. freedom of expression) (FOR) in / of
• To put pressure __ (e.g. the government) to act on
• To generate publicity ___ a cause for
• To have an influence___ decision makers on
• To have (major) doubts ___ (government policy on climate change) about
• To have your say ___ (e.g. decisions that affect your future) ON
• To voice your opinion ___... ON
• To force (e.g. the government) to come ___ a compromiso TO
• To back ____ (e.g. if you realise you will not win the fight) DOWN
• To _____ someone back down (e.g. to force them to change their
decision/behaviour) MAKE
• To change people´s minds ____ the best way to protect the planet ABOUT
Part 1 speaking: Talking about yourself
Choose questions 1 or questions 2 and prepare to talk about yourself for 2 minutes
1 2
• Where are you from? • Where are you from?
• What do you do? • What do you do?
• Who do you prefer to travel • How do you usually spend your
with? Why? free time?
• What has been your most
exciting travel experience thus • If you could try any new sport or
far? hobby, what would you try?
• Where do you see yourself in 5 • Where do you see yourself in 5
years time? years time?
Share your eating out experiences
• What kinds of restaurant do you enjoy going
to?
• Do you have a favourite restaurant?
• What´s the best ´dining out´ experience
you´ve ever had?
• Who would you usually eat out with? For
what type of occasions?
• When you eat out in a restaurant, which
aspects of the experience are important?
• Have you ever had a disappointing experience
in a restaurant?
The pictures below show people eating out. Compare the pictures and answer the
questions:
- Why might the diners choose to go there?
- What might they be enjoying about the restaurant they are in?
 Descriptive adjectives
Match the adjectives to aspects of a dining experience they could describe
Which are positive and which are negative?
Which are ungradable?

Prices
Intriguing Silent Décor
Inspiring Quirky Service
Mediocre High-end
Exorbitant Dining area
Charming
Packed out Portion sizes
Deafening
Fussy Presentation
Insubstantial Crowded
Brusque Noise levels
Miniscule
delicious Sloppy The restaurant
Cramped tasteless The menu
Huge The food

Which would you use

to describe these 2
restaurants?
Read about the restaurant on page 126
Read paragraph A. Find examples Read the rest of the review and
of informal writing techniques in find examples of:
paragraph A: • Short and long sentences
• Rhetorical questions • Very specific language
• Idiomatic expressions • Direct speech
• Phrasal verb • Writer’s personal view
• Punctuation
• Descriptive adjective use
Read paragraph B – which is
better as an introduction – A or B?
 Review language – informal expressions/phrasal verbs
• Tucked away down a side street
• Only a stone´s throw from Phrasal verbs
Eat out (in a restaurant)
• The fashionable heart of the city Sit down (at the table)
• Slap bang in the centre of the city Bolt down (your food)
• This could be right up your street Tuck into (the food)
Splash out (on an expensive meal)
• Not since…. Have I…. Go out (to a restaurant)
• Even better than…. Are…. (be) blown away (by the
• Under no circumstances should you miss… price/food)
Come across (a little restaurant)
• What was most (delicious/surprising/disappointing) was…
Pick out (a dish from the menu)
• Take pleasure in Go for (a dish on the menu)
• Take pride in Turn out (to be really expensive..)
Call for (the bill)
• make the best of the surroundings
• Made/didn´t make a good impression
• Cost a fortune
• I was totally blown away by…
 Write a review for a lifestyle blog about a restaurant you have been to recently.
Don´t forget to engage the reader right from the beginning and use a range of informal language,
sentence structures and punctuation. Write in an informal style, using a range of adjectives and
coloquial expressions
Choose one of the following titles and write your review
(remember in the exam you have to think of your own title)
• 1. __________ : By far the best festive dining experience in town.
• 2. __________: One meal I won´t forget in a hurry!
• 3. __________: An experience never to be repeated!
Plan:
1. Intro – engage the reader, what led you to the place, where is it? what had you heard about it?
2. What was the first impression (space, décor, service, clientele, menu…)
3. The meal (describe food – did it live up to expectations?, what else did you like/love/hate about the
restaurant?
4. Conclusion – the bill – was it worth it? Would you repeat the experience? who would you recommend it to,
why?
Gradable & Ungradable adjectives
Collocations (Environmental issues)

Match verbs with words/phrase to Synonyms:

Write more formal synonyms for these more informal
complete the issue: expressions:
• Spray
• Pollute 1. Be thin on the ground = s
2. More than enough = s
• Emit
3. Use up = c
• Give rise to/trigger 4. Spark off = t
• Wipe out 5. Make up for this = c
6. Throw away= d o
• Toxic fumes/Methane gas
• Natural disasters
• species/Natural habitats
• Crops/Pesticides
• Water supplies, rivers, the atmosphere
During oral exams complete the following
exercises:
• NEW VOCAB – GLOBAL ISSUES: Page 74 Ex 1a,b, & c, 2a & b
(1c is a discussion with your partner)
• WORD FORMATION: Page 74 Ex 4a