The team monitors the external border every night.
Unit 01
Professional profiles
Roles, responsibilities, and mission
Describe experience, duties, and operational roles with precise B2 verbs and clear limits of responsibility.
Use of EnglishReadingProfessional speaking
Frontex focus
Frontex mandate and the Standing Corps
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Learning outcomes
By the end of this unit
- Distinguish permanent duties from temporary assignments.
- Use responsibility and deployment collocations accurately.
- Explain how Frontex supports national authorities.
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Operational reading
Support does not replace authority
A multinational team has arrived to support checks at a busy external-border crossing. Frontex coordinates the deployment and provides document experts, interpreters, and technical equipment. The host country still controls its border section and retains the primary legal responsibility for decisions.
During the first briefing, the team leader separates routine duties from temporary tasks. Two officers normally work on document checks, while this week they are helping to train new colleagues. Clear role language prevents gaps, duplicated work, and unsafe assumptions about authority.
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Language focus
Present simple and present continuous
Use the present simple for regular duties and stable facts. Use the present continuous for temporary activity or change around now.
This month, Marta is supporting an operation at the airport.
The host authority remains responsible for national border control.
Watch this
Avoid continuous forms with stable state verbs: know, belong, understand, and own.
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Core lexicon
Professional and operational vocabulary
have a duty to manage or perform something
The coordinator is responsible for the morning briefing.send staff or equipment to a place for a task
The agency can deploy trained officers when support is requested.the legal authority and tasks given to an organisation
The regulation defines the agency mandate.the national authority responsible where an operation takes place
The team follows the host authority’s command structure.a document setting tasks, command links, equipment, and safeguards
Every officer reads the operational plan before deployment.From EPSOHQ Frontex database
Acronym focus
Use this when discussing the shared EU and national border-management system.
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Production task
Your 60-second role briefing
Describe a current or previous role. State two regular duties, one temporary task, and one limit to your authority.
- Use two precise action verbs.
- Include responsible for plus a noun or -ing form.
- Separate your role from the team’s role.
About 60 seconds · 60–130 words
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