Optimise B2, Unit 6 - Vocabulary (The world of work)

At the end of each day, the boss would pay us our salary / wages. The amount depended on how much work we had done.

• salary

• wages

Mr Sweet has accepted responsibility for the company's losses and he had offered to resign / retire.

• resign

• retire

My dad usually gets a tip / bonus at the end of the year if he has achieved his targets.

• tip

• bonus

5 My sister was only born three months ago so my mum is still on maternity / paternity leave.

• maternity

• paternity

1) A lot of people r__________ later these days because they live longer than in the past.

2) One of the advantages of being a waiter is that the customers often leave you a t_____________.

3) My brother has had a terrible cold and he's been o___________ s___________ from work for the last week.

4)The hotel workers have decided to go o___________ s___________ until the managers agree to discuss pay and conditions.

5) The best thing about my job is when I get my w_____________ at the end of the week. I try to save some of them but I always buy myself something nice.

When the company moved its offices to London, a lot of people in my town became off sick / unemployed.

• off sick

• unemployed