Learning Objectives
Apply listening behaviors to improve comprehension of spoken English
Summarize content of spoken English conversations and speeches
Employment is the state of having a paid job—of being employed. Employers can be public or private entities or businesses. Employees can be part-time, full-time, contract or freelance. Employees earn a wage or salary for the work they do. Some jobs also offer benefits such as health care and retirement accounts.
key vocabulary
Benefits Contract Forms Freelance Private
Public Salary Resume Unemployment Wage
video and audio content
Watch Barry Schwartz explain his view that the current way of thinking about work simply ignores important values.
Watch Emilie Wapnik discuss the kind of people she calls “multipotentialites” — who have a range of interests and jobs over one lifetime.
Listen to Angelo Bruno and Eddie Nieves share the unexpected lessons they learned after decades on the job as sanitation workers.
NYC Sanitation Workers on Lessons They Learned While Picking Up Garbage
