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GROUP 2 (Class B)/Economic Education 1. Andi Fitri (1905066040) 2. Gina Novia(1905066069) 3. Windi Andiyanur (1905066063) 4.1 Correct these sentences about Ravi, using words from A opposite. One word is wrong in each item. 1 At 18, Ravi decided to stay in full-time education and went to Mumbai University. 2 Ravi graduated three years later with a degree in philosophy and politics. 3 He taught for a while, but didn't like it. He decided to train as an accountant at evening classes. 4 He qualified as an accountant and joined a big accountancy firm in its Mumbai office. 5 When he started, he needed to develop other skills, which would come through experience 6 He received management training to help him develop these skills. 4.2 Are these jobs generally considered to be highly skilled, skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled? Each expression is used twice. 1. Teacher  Skilled 2. Brain Surgeon  Highly-Skilled 3. Car worker on a production line  Semi-Skilled 4. Airline pilot Highly-Skilled 5. Official Cleaner  Unskilled 6. Labourer (someone doing basic work on a building site)  Unskilled 7. Bus driver  Semi-Skilled 8. Office manager  Skilled 4.3 Complete these extracts from job advertisements using words from C opposite. 1. You’ll need to be numerate , as you’ll be working on financial budgets. 2. As part of our sales team you’ll be working independently, so you have to be self motivated and self driven. 3. We're looking for someone who can work on ten projects at once. You must be organized, methodical, and systematic. 4. We need talented journalists who are very good at their job and extremely motivated to find out as much as they can. 5. You'll be researching developments on the Internet, so you have to be computer-literate You must be proactive, able to work on your own initiative, and a self-starter But as part of a team. You must of researchers, you need to be a good team-player



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6.2 Manuel Ortiz is the founder of a Spanish computer sales company. Use the words in B and D opposite to complete what he says about it. I founded Computadoras Creativas 20 years ago. We started with a small (1) office in Madrid. Our (2) head office, our (3) headquarters is still here, but now we have sites all over Spain, with about 500 employees. Many of the offices are (4) open-plan : everyone works together, from managers to (5) administrative staff, as well as people selling over the phone, and people in technical (6) support giving help to customers over the phone. Recruitment is taken care of in Madrid, by the (7) Human Resources Departement or (8) HRD



7.1 Complete the tables with forms of words from A, B and C opposite. You may wish to refer to a dictionary. Noun Retirement Demotion Lay-off Dismissal Termination



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7.2 Match the sentence beginnings (1-5) to the correct endings (a-e). The sentences all contain words from A and B opposite. 1 Career paths aren't what they used to be (b.) companies won't take care of us for life, any more. 2 He worked his way up from (d) factory worker to factory manager. 3 The new management have delayered the company (e) reducing five management levels to three. 4 We used to do printing in-house, (c) but now we outsource it. 5 Workers are afraid their organizations will be downsized (a) and they will be replaced by temporary workers. 7.3 Carla used to work for an Italian magazine publishing company. She talks about how she lost her job. Choose the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the text. Edizione Fenice is a big magazine publishing company, and a very nice company to work for. I was director of a magazine called Casa e Giardino. Then, Fenice was bought by an international publishing group. We had to have regular performance (1) reviews (review/reviews/reviewer) with one of the new managers. After a few months they started laying staff (2) off (off/on/out). Our own journalists were put on temporary (3) contracts (contracts/contractual/contracting) or replaced by (4) freelancers (freelancer/freelancers/freelanced). Then they started (5) laying (laid/lying/laying) off more senior people like me.The new , owners said they wanted to make the company (6) flatter (flat/flatter/flatten) and (7) leaner (Iean/leant/leaner). So I was made (8) redundant (redundant/redundancies/redundancy).They offered to help me to find another job with (9) outplacement (outplacement/outplaced/outplacing) advice, but I refused.