Answer Key
Vocabulary test
Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
- permanent
- blue-collar
- nine-to-five
- part-time
- white-collar
- full-time
- volunteer
- contractor
- temporary
- contract
- My sister does [volunteer] work at the homeless shelter downtown several times a month.
- During college, I worked [part-time] as a bartender, just a few hours every night, to make a little extra spending money.
- I have a typical [nine-to-five] job – I wake up and get home at exactly the same time every day.
- The position of President of the United States is a [temporary] job – at most you can hold it for two four-year terms.
- My dad has a typical [blue-collar] job – he works as a line operator at an auto factory in Detroit.
- You can't qualify for all the employee benefits unless you work [full-time] , and that means at least forty hours a week, and not more than two weeks of holiday a year.
- When my firm needed an audit for business purposes last year, we used an independent [contractor] instead of our in-house accounting staff.
- I just signed a new [contract] at work – it gives me a ten percent raise in salary and a promotion!
- The position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice is a [permanent] one – members hold their jobs for life.
- [White-collar] jobs are ones like office manager, surgeon, paralegal, etc...