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BBC Learning English 

Words in the News  

20 June 2012 

Hanging up on work 

Transcript: 

When is our time our own and when does it belong to the company?  

We all love to keep in touch using the latest gadgets. But the stream of phone 

calls and emails when you've left the office can make out-of-hours time seem 

like you're still on duty.  

The German government has decided to tackle the issue. It's laying down 

rules on when companies can and can't contact their employees. 

Vocabulary: 

to keep in touch  

to communicate with someone  

out-of-hours  

after the normal timetable ends 

on duty  

working  

to tackle  

to deal with  

laying down 

establishing rules officially  

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 

BBC news reports.  

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly. 

to keep in touch / out-of-hours / on duty / to tackle / laying down 

1.  Governor Alckmin announced on Tuesday that 390 extra policemen will join 

some 3,500 officers already ______. Almost 300 extra patrol vehicles will also be 

deployed in the streets of Sao Paulo. 

2. If countries like Yemen are __________ their water shortages they will need 

more skill in politics than in cloud-seeding. 

3. If you prefer _______ via social media for more on-the-ground, unofficial 

coverage, there is no shortage of people covering and following proceedings on 

Twitter. 

4. "We are in the process of building safeguards against any misuse of this data. 

Nadra is run by a board of directors who are answerable to parliamentary 

standing committees. But we understand that this is not enough, so we are now 

drafting a piece of legislation _______ a set of legal safeguards." 

5. Systems for picking up patterns of unusual symptoms have been expanded to 

include a wider range of NHS sources, including _______ and hospital 

emergency departments. 

Answers:  

1.  Governor Alckmin announced on Tuesday that 390 extra policemen will join 

some 3,500 officers already on duty. Almost 300 extra patrol vehicles will also 

be deployed in the streets of Sao Paulo.  

Source:  Brazil's 'Valentine's Day' threatened by crime wave 

2. If countries like Yemen are to tackle their water shortages they will need 

more skill in politics than in cloud-seeding. 

Source:  Shortages: Water supplies in crisis 

3. If you prefer to keep in touch via social media for more on-the-ground, 

unofficial coverage, there is no shortage of people covering and following 

proceedings on Twitter.  

Source:  Green Room: Will Rio +20 make a difference? 

4. "We are in the process of building safeguards against any misuse of this data. 

Nadra is run by a board of directors who are answerable to parliamentary 

standing committees. But we understand that this is not enough, so we are now 

drafting a piece of legislation to lay down a set of legal safeguards." 

Source:  Pakistan's experience with identity management 

5. Systems for picking up patterns of unusual symptoms have been expanded to 

include a wider range of NHS sources, including out-of-hours and hospital 

emergency departments. 

Source:  London Olympics: Disease-check legacy of Games