Exercise 16: Choose the best answer, a, b, c or d, to complete the sentence:

1 People who want to succeed in their chosen careers will have to plan carefully in order to______ the changes in the world of work.

a exist

b survive

c live

d pursue

2 All the_____in the company decided to write to the manager asking for a pay rise.

a staff

b team

c group

d body

3 The company is moving its headquarters to a new _____with better links to the airport.

a position

b location

c situation

d place

4 I am hoping that if I get enough experience in the sales team, for my next job I'll be able to apply for a post as a sales______.

a conductor

b organiser

c controller

d manager

5 As many jobs today require people who are computer-_____, I'd advise you to do a course to improve your skills.

a knowledgeable

b informed

c literate

d educated

Exercise 17: Fill in the gaps with these words:

At • of • for • by • in • with • to • from • on • around

Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to apply for the job 1_____ activities organiser in your summer camps for children. I am a university student 2_____three younger brothers, so I am used to living among young people! Last summer I worked as an activities organiser in a summer camp which had children from all 3_____the world and I was told that I had a real aptitude 4_____working with children. I am interested 5_____all kinds of sport, and I have taught swimming. When I finish university, I want to train to be a physical education teacher. I will be available in July and August. It is possible that I might be able to work in September as well, and I will be able to tell you for certain 6_____the end of May. I will be going back 7_____university 8_____April 1st. I would be happy to come and see you before then if necessary. I enclose my CV and I look forward 9______hearing 10______you.

Exercise 18: Complete the sentences with the words and expressions from the box:

Companies Salaries Wealth Means Prices Rich In charge of

Lights Business Building Prices Difference Employees Whatever

Unemployed Machinery To keep Called Working conditions Wealth

Human resources

Wealth

Paula Armstrong’s office is high up in a beautiful ________(1) in the city center of Dallas, Texas. From her window she can look down at the street far below, and out past the skyscrapers to the endless flatness of Texas. It stretches for hundreds of miles in all directions, hiding the _____ (2) below its dusty fields. Here and there a piece of ____(3) sticks out of the grounds, on top of which a metal arm nods up and down. It’s a “nodding donkey”, the top of an oil well, pulling the ____ (4) of Texas up above ground and into the hands of one of Dallas’s many oil _____(5).

Paula is Hunt Oil’s senior vice-president of information and ____ (6). Translated into plain English, that ____(7) she is ____(8) her company’s computers. She also runs the personnel department, and is in charge of the ____(9) welfare: their ____(10), medical insurance, ____(11), etc. Hunt Oil, where Paula works, is an old family ____(12). “Black gold”, as oil is sometimes ____(13), has made more millionaires than yellow gold ever did. When oil ____(14) are high, Texans are ____(15). But when they fall, the Texans are the first to feel the ____(16). Stores close down and many people become ____(17). But ____(18) happens to the oil ____(19), Americans need not worry yet. The country’s natural ____(20) is so great than the US will be able ____(21) the ____(22) turned on for many years to come.

Exercise 19: Fill in the missing words with words “wages” or “salary”:

1. They earn the basic ….of $11.50 per hour. 2. She earns a good …..as a investment banker. 3. This sounds like a good job-company car, generous …., opportunity to travel – why don’t you apply? 4. The workers demanded a ….rise of 10 per cent. 5. He gives most of his ….packet (envelope containing money) to his wife. 6. In our family both my husband and I are ……earners. 7. I joined the company in 1985, with a ……of 15, 000 a year.

Exercise 20: Read the passages and ask about people’s jobs: