69. Student a is an employer, Student b is an employee. Discuss the salaries and additional payment using the following text. Getting Paid

Your Salary and Paycheck

You will most likely be paid weekly or sometimes twice per month. Check with your employer. You will always receive less than your "gross" or total salary, as there will be deductions taken out of each check. Your employer should give you a salary statement or pay stub or pay slip, which will explain exactly what was taken out. Depending on your agreement with your employer, you might also have uniform, housing, union membership dues, and other work-related items deducted from your salary.

There will also be taxes dedecuted from your paycheck. After you receive your first paycheck, be sure to review it to ensure your employer hasn't made any mistakes.

Overtime

As a new employee, do not reject requests to work extra hours. Many companies will pay you one-and-a-half times more than the normal wage rate for extra hours. If they do not, you sometimes will have time off in compensation for overtime. Ask your employer for company overtime policies.

Telephoning

1. Look at the pictures. What are you going to talk about?

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2. Match the words with their definitions:

1. Mobile phone (Br.E) cellphone (Am.E)

2. Extension

3. Cordless phone

4. Webcam

5. Videophone

6. Videoconferencing

7. Payphone

   1. Phone in a public place operated with money, a credit card or a phone card.

   2. A phone you can take with you and use anywhere.

   3. A phone not connected by wire, so you can use it around the house or in the garden.

   4. One of a number of phones on the same line, in a home or office.

   5. A special phone with a screen so you can see the other person.

   6. A camera attached to a computer and phone line, so two people talking on the phone can see each other.

   7. Holding a meeting with people in different locations.

3. Which equipment would each of these people use? Why?

1. A computer user who wants to see the person he is talking to.

2. A housewife who wants to stay in touch while working in the garden.

3. A company manager who wants to discuss a project with managers in different offices at the same time.

4. Someone who is out but doesn’t have a mobile.

5. A company that has a lot of departments.

4. Attention!

To call someone

To phone someone

To telephone someone

To give someone a call

Write these structures in Russian. Use them in the sentences of your own.

Leaving and Taking Messages

5. What do you usually say when you answer the phone at home?

How do people answer the phone at work?

6. How do you say these phone numbers in English?

00771 228479 3322 10 64540911 8 904 581 7373 8 3812 650300

Say your own phone number in English.

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7. Asking to speak to someone.

Look at these phrases from the phone calls. Does the person answering the call (A) or the person making the call (B) say them?

Pic. 21a

Pic. 21b

8. Anfisa is trying to phone Rita Breadley. Put the conversation into a logical order.

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1. Anfisa: Good morning. Can I speak to Rita Breadley in Sales?

2. Anfisa: Is that Rita Breadley?

3. Anfisa: No, I’m afraid I don’t.

4. Anfisa: Thanks. Oh no, I’ve been cut off.

5. Switchboard operator: Do you know the extension?

6. Switchboard operator: Sorry to keep you waiting. … I’m putting you through.

7. Ruth Bradley: Bradley

8. Ruth Bradley: No, this is Ruth Bradley. You’ve come through to Accounts. I’ll try and transfer you back to the Switchboard.

Work in pairs. Read the phone call aloud.