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Practise pronouncing vocabulary about daily activities.

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Activity 1. Listen to Joanne talk about her career. Put the topics in order as she mentions them.

• Her career development
• Her education
• Opportunities at GSK

Activity 2. True or false?

Joanne Storey works at the start of the drug development process.

She has a degree in ecology.

She became interested in physiology during her PhD studies.

Joanne doesn’t like her strategic role because it is hard to work with colleagues from different areas.

GSK only focuses on pharmaceutical drug development.

Activity 3. Match the halves. Watch and check.

1. I'm a senior director at

1. leading the lab.

2. My undergraduate degree was

2. a bench scientist.

3. I went on

3. on vaccines and consumer health products.

4. I started as

4. a global health care company.

5. Then I moved into

5. pharmaceutical research and development.

6. Since then my career has grown

6. move sideways across the company

7. I get to meet scientists from many different disciplines

7. to do a PhD in neuroscience.

8. I focus very much on

8. in biological sciences.

9. Here at GSK we work

1. across different therapy areas.

10. People come in in one role and then

10. and I've taken on more leadership roles.

Activity 4. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions – in, to, at, into, across, on, as.

1. I'm a senior director ___ GSK.
2. My undergraduate degree was __ biological sciences.
3. I went __ to do a PhD in neuroscience.
4. I started __ a bench scientist and I then moved ___ leading the lab.
5. I've taken __ more leadership roles.
6. Now I'm __ a strategic role.
7. I get __ meet scientists from many different disciplines.
8. I focus very much __ pharmaceutical research and development.
9. Here __ GSK we work __ vaccines and consumer health products.
10. People come __ in one role and then move sideways ______  the company.