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Formal words 1 (page 16)
1. analyse (spelt analyze in American English) 2. assessed at 3. averted 4. administer 5. assigned 6. annulled 7. audit
8. appealed to 9. addressed 10. award 11. admonished 12. awaiting 13. adjusted 14. adjourned 15. appointed
16. apportioned 17. attend 18. advised 19. assist 20. amalgamated
Formal words 2 (pages 17 + 18)
Across: 2. retain 6. briefed 7. consented 8. sequestered (we can also say sequestrated) 12. settle 15. outlined 17. reinstated
18. tender 19. dismissed 20. engage (we can also say employ or hire) 21. upgraded
Down: 1. waived 3. notified 4. present (note the pronunciation: / pri zent /) 5. undertaken 7. consulted 8. specify 9. elected
10. redeployed 11. indexed (this is usually used in passive constructions - is / are indexed) 13. inquiring (also spelt enquiring)
14. licensed 16. enter
Word association 1 (page 19)
1. cost (usually used in the plural - costs - after marginal) 2. minimum 3. salary 4. strike 5. shift 6. medical 7. labour
8. employment 9. insurance 10. income 11. private 12. pension 13. staff 14. contract 15. personal
curriculum vitae should appear in the shaded vertical strip (usually abbreviated to CV. A CV is known as a résumé in the USA). For more
information on CVs, see the note under the answers for  Job advertising .
Word association 2 (page 20)
1. work (these verbs can also be followed by a job) 2. instructions 3. qualifications 4. redundancy (announce is usually followed by
the plural redundancies; receive and take are usually followed by redundancy payment) 5. a salary (these verbs can also be followed
by a wage or wages) 6. a contract 7. a job (these verbs can also be followed by work. Note that job is countable and work is
uncountable: we cannot say a work) 8. an appointment 9. a tax (or taxes) 10. accounts 11. resignation (these verbs are
followed by pronouns such as your, his, her, etc) 12. a pension 13. complaint (be cause for is not usually followed by an article -
We have no cause for a complaint) 14. rules 15. a post (not work or a job, because fill or be appointed to cannot be used with
these words. Be appointed to is usually followed by the : He was appointed to the post of senior executive)
Word association 3 (page 21)
Part 1:
The words in the box are: computer, staff, tax, management, business, self-, labour, pay, career, company, sales, job, industrial
Part 2:
1. pay 2. tax 3. management 4. job 5. labour 6. industrial 7. company 8. sales 9. staff 10. computer 11. career 12.
business 13. self-
Word association 4: Expressions with salary and wage (page 22)
1. liveable living basic nominal minimum monthly average annual yearly (although annual and yearly would not
normally come before wage, as wages are usually paid weekly, often in cash, and tend to be for manual or short-term work. Wage can
also be preceded by daily and weekly)
2. (a) + (b): draw / earn (in either order) (c) + (d) + (e) + (f) + (g): pay / raise / reduce / cut / offer (in any order) (h) dock (i) + (j): fall
/ rise (in either order) (k) command
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answer key
Word association 4: salary and wage (page 22) continued
3. (a) True (b) False. It is called a wage formula (c) False. Price rises encourage higher wage demands, and these make prices rise
even more. (d) True (e) False. Wages are not allowed to increase. (f) False. They are called wage differentials. (g) False. It is the
lowest legal wage for a particular class of worker. (h) True
4. (a) deductions (b) structure (c) drift (also called earnings drift) (d) expectations (e) review (also called a pay review) (f)
ceiling (we can also say wage ceiling) (g) bands (h) cut
Word association 5: work and working (page 23)
A.
work: ethic experience flow load (usually written as one word: workload) measurement out (a phrasal verb: to work out a
period of notice) overload (we also say overwork) rage (an informal expression) sampling schedule shadow sharing
standard stoppage structuring team
working: conditions day hours lunch (also called a power lunch) practices supervisor (this is a unisex word which has a similar
meaning to foreman) week
B.
1. work overload 2. working conditions 3. work measurement 4. work experience 5. working hours 6. working supervisor [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]