What's Job ?

What’s the job?

accountant                             clerk                                    personnel officer

advertising executive             computer operator                R&D Manager

assembly person                    draughtsperson                     receptionist

chauffeur                               motor mechanic                    salesperson

You will be in charge of a team of highly creative individuals delivering new quality products and enhancing our existing range.

1. personnel officer

With particular responsibilities for recruitment and selection. Communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving essential.

2. R&D Manager

With mechanical design experience to work as a member of a team producing designs and drawings for production. Experience of our products range is not essential.

3. draughtperson

Duties include filing, mailing, relief reception and other general office work.

4.  receptionist

Needed for night shift. Clean modern factory. Varied work. Good eyesight essential.

5. assembly person

Successful applicant will be articulate and presentable. Remuneration includes retainer and car allowance plus commission structure.

6. salesperson

Reporting directly to Managing Director. You will take over financial control for all aspects of daily operation.

7. accountant

Sober habits, clean driving licence, able to be on call 7 days per week at times. Uniform supplied.

8. chauffeur

Must be experienced in the repair and maintenance of heavy duty vehicles. References must be provided from previous employers.

9. motor mechanic

You are the first person our clients will meet so you need to be friendly, stylish and efficient.

10. clerk

Some experience in the above-mentioned software is essential but training will be given to the successful applicant.

11. computer operator

You will be an essential member of an agency responsible for some of the country’s top accounts. You will be responsible for the administration of local and national promotions.

12. advertising executive

As you were reading the advertisements, did you notice word partnerships such asfinancial control and communication skills?

Look through the advertisements again and see how many more you can find.

Complete each of the sentences below with a suitable word partnership taken from the advertisements.

We’re looking for new products to add to our selling list.

She’s an advertising executive of this team. We can’t do without her.

You get more money if you work on the advertising company but it ruins your social life.

He had a very good idea to solving problems.

I didn’t get the job as a driver as I didn’t have a driving license.

My concern are health and safety but I’m also concerned with the general welfare of employees.

Banking Services

Fill each blank in the text with the correct word or phrase. Choose from the following list. Use each item once only.

Commission               issued                          statement                    credit rating

Debited                       outstanding                withdraw                    credit transfer

in full                          salaries                        banker’s draft           financial institutions

interest                        slip                              cash dispenser            standing order

Bank offers many services to business and their customers. Here are some of the most common:

Many people now have a card which enables them to 1. withdraw money from a 2. cash dispenser. You feed your card into the machine and key in your PIN (personal identification number) and the amount of money you want. If you have enough in your account, the money requested will be 3. issued up to a daily limit. Your account is automatically 4. debited for the amount you have drawn out.

Provided you have a sound 5. credit rating, you can get a credit card from a bank and other 6. financial institution. To obtain goods or services, you present your card and sign a special voucher. When it receives the voucher, the credit card company pays the trader (less a 7. commission) and then send you a monthly 8. slip. Depending on the type of card you have, you will either have to pay 9. in full or be able to pay part of what is owed and pay10. interest in the balance left 11. statement.

 If you need to make fixed payments at regular intervals, e.g. for insurance premiums, you can arrange a 12. credit transfer (sometimes known as a banker’s order) so that the bank will do this for you.

If you have several bills to pay, you can do this by 13. standing order . You write one cheque for the total sum involved, fill in a 14. outstanding for each bill and hand everything to the bank cashier.

The transfer system is also used by employers to pay 15. salaries directly into employees’ bank accounts.

If you are dealing with a supplier for the first time, a 16. banker’s draft may be used as payment. This is a cheque guaranteed by a bank and therefore it is not likely to ‘bounce’.

K Unemployment Total Falls to 2.16m ( Economy News )

UK Unemployment Total Falls to 2.16m ( Economy News )

The number of people out of work fell by 161,000 to 2.16 million, bringing the unemployment rate down to 6.6%.

The number of people in work rose by a record 345,000, to 30.5 million, most of which are in full-time employment.

But the quarterly rate of earnings growth, including bonuses, slowed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month.

This was largely due to delayed bonus payments, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Excluding bonuses, pay rose by 0.9%.

The total number of people out of work is now at its lowest level for more than five years, with youth unemployment, which covers 16-24 year olds, standing at 853,000.

The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in May fell by 27,400 to 1.09 million, the ONS said.

Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that the government had reached a "major milestone" in its long term economic plan, with "two million new private sector jobs since 2010".

Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves told the BBC that the slowing rise in wage increases meant that "even people in work are struggling to make ends meet".

Signs of strength

The continuing improvement in the jobs market in the three months to April

The number of jobs lost in the public sector was 103,000, but much of this this was down to the reclassification of employees of Lloyds bank from the public to the private sector. Taking out the Lloyds workers, 11,000 jobs were lost in the public sector.

There were 5.4 million people employed in the public sector and 25.1 million in the private sector, up 447,000 on the previous three-month period.

"The rise in employment this month is concentrated in full-time employees, not self-employment, which in the past has been used to 'talk down' the strength of the rise," said David Tinsley at BNP Paribas.

"Indeed, there was a sharp fall in the proportion of people working part-time who say they are doing so because they can't find a full-time job, which is one of the Bank of England's favourite metrics of disguised slack."

Wage 'concern'

Analysts said the ONS figures sent mixed messages to the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.

"Labour market strength is the driving force behind calls for interest rate increases from the Bank of England, sooner rather than later, and today's figures will add fuel to their fire," said Jeremy Cook, chief economist at World First.

"However, wage growth has fallen to 0.7%, versus an expected 1.2%, and this is still a major cause for concern. As a result I am still expecting the Bank to hold policy right through into the second quarter of 2015, mainly courtesy of the lack of real wage increases."

The inflation rate in the UK currently stands at 1.8%, meaning wages are increasing at a slower rate than prices.

"Weak pay growth and the 'cost of living crisis' remains the Achilles heel of the economic recovery," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.

"But it should not be long until we see earnings growth accelerate as the labour market continues to tighten. Pay growth should pick up in coming months, perhaps significantly."

The figures for unemployment in the three months to April are based on the Labour Force Survey, in which the ONS speaks to 60,000 households once a quarter, making it the country's biggest household survey.

The ONS is 95% confident that the figure of a 161,000 fall in unemployment is correct to plus or minus 85,000 people.

Resensi film thir13en ghost

Ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) and assistant Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) lead a team on a mission to capture a spirit, called the Juggernaut, in a junkyard. Several of the men are killed during the ensuing fight, including Cyrus himself. However, the team is able to catch the ghost.

Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub), a mathematician who is also a widower, is informed by the estate lawyer of his uncle Cyrus, Benjamin Moss (JR Bourne), that he has inherited a mansion. Arthur and his financially insecure family plan to move into this mansion with his two children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts). Their babysitter/nanny Maggie (Rah Digga) accompanies the family.

Dennis Rafkin, disguised as a power company employee, meets the family and Benjamin as they tour the mansion. The residence is made almost entirely of glass. It contains Latin phrases etched on floors and movable glass walls, along with priceless artifacts. Arthur and his family are eager about inheriting this new home, and while Arthur is discussing financial matters with the attorney, Kathy and Bobby venture off on their own to explore the mansion. After seeing several ghosts in the basement, Dennis frantically runs upstairs to warn Arthur about the home he is about to own. Benjamin assures Arthur that Dennis is crazy and should be ignored. Dennis tells Arthur that there are twelve spirits are imprisoned in the house, held captive by the spells written throughout the residence.

Benjamin Moss is seen sneaking off to collect a valise of money which was intended to be payment. However, upon taking the money, he activates a mechanism set up by Cyrus that seals the entrance and releases the ghosts, one by one. Consequently, Moss encounters one of them, the Angry Princess, and backs up into an open doorway, which snaps shut and slices him in half. Later the existence of ghosts is proven to the skeptical Arthur, when he witnesses an attack on his daughter by the ghost known as the Jackal.

Bobby, the younger of the two children, disappears after getting separated from Maggie and he wanders into the basement. There he encounters several spirits, including the Torso and the Bound Woman. Arthur manages to find Kathy, and the two battle the Jackal. Kalina Oretzia (Embeth Davidtz), a spirit liberator, helps Arthur free Kathy from the Jackal's grip, only to be lost again a few moments later. After this, Arthur's objective is clear - to find his children and leave this house as soon as possible. This becomes problematic for two reasons: only those equipped with special glasses are able to see the ghosts; and the walls continue to shift, making navigation difficult.

Kalina explains that this is not a house - it is a complex machine built by Cyrus, known as the "Ocularis Infernum" (Eye of Hell.) Created by the Devil and powered by the dead, once completed, this demonic device would allow its user to see into the future. To Arthur's horror, he discovers one of the ghosts powering this machine is the spirit of his dead wife, Jean. Kalina goes on to tell Arthur that his children are in grave danger, and the only way to ensure their successful return is to offer his soul in exchange. If Arthur takes his place as the 13th ghost, his sacrifice of pure love would combat all of the evil contained within the machine, thus shutting it down.

Cyrus is revealed to be alive, having faked his death in order to lure Arthur to the house; Kalina turns out to be his secret partner and lover, and knocks Maggie unconscious. Cyrus has orchestrated the previous events, including the abduction of Kathy and Bobby, so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost not to stop the machine, as Kalina had claimed, but to trigger it. Cyrus then turns on Kalina and crushes her between two glass walls, claiming "greatness requires sacrifice."

Arthur and Dennis make another attempt to save Kathy and Bobby with the help of a detached wall. Facing the Hammer, Dennis pushes Arthur into a corner where he is then protected by the wall, sacrificing his own life in the process. After combating the Hammer, Dennis finds himself cornered by the angry spirit and the newly released Juggernaut; he is brutally beaten and dies when the Juggernaut breaks him in half.

Trapped behind the glass, Arthur is visited by Jean's ghost. Then, all the ghosts disappear from the basement, responding to a tape-recorded summons played by Cyrus. Kathy and Bobby have been placed at the center of a set of whirling, razor-sharp rings. Arthur and Cyrus have a violent confrontation , which is interrupted by the sound of Maggie beginning to destroy the machine. Due to this breakdown in equipment, the ghosts are released from their trance. All the ghosts except Jean immediately grab Cyrus, and hurl him into the spinning rings. Dennis' ghost then appears, telling Arthur to go to his kids. Waiting for a break in the razor rings, Arthur jumps to save his children, making the leap without dying. The house's glass walls shatter, releasing the spirits from captivity. A peacful-looking Jean lingers briefly to say goodbye to her family, then departs with the others.

The film ends with a battered Maggie walking through the wreckage yelling, "I quit!"

passive voice

Passive Verbs Form

1.    The books were taken by John

John took the books

2.    The boxes were mailed today

He mailed the boxes today

3.    The two packages were opened by my secretary

My secretary opened two packages

4.    Our homework is corrected by our teacher

Teacher corrects our homeworks 

5.    Two buildings have been constructed by that company

That company have constructed two buildings

6.    That room wasn’t cleaned carefully yesterday

He didn’t clean the room yesterday

7.    The truck is being loaded by the men now

The men is loading the truck now

8.    Was that machine checked by the inspector ?

Did the isnpector check the machine ?

9.    Will that report be written by the same committee ?

Will the same committee write that report ?

10.              Has the news been announced by the president yet ?

Has the president announced the news yet ?

11.              The mail is delivered to this office twice a day

He delivers the mails to this office twice a day

12.              All of us were surprised by his frank attitude

His frank attitude surprised all of us

13.              Was the repair work done by that mechanic ?

Did that mechanic done the repair work ?

14.              He wasnt very much respected by the employees

The employees respected him very much

15.              Are many courses in English given during the summer ?

Are many courses give English during the summer?

Using Passive Verbs

1.    He signed the letter

The letter was signed by him

2.    The secretary opens the mail every morning

The mail is opened by the secretary every morning

3.    The committee is considering that proposal right now

The proposal is being considered by the committee right now

4.    The army will complete that project next year

That project will be completed by the army next year

5.    His boss has transfered him to another departmen

He has been transfered to another departmen by his boss

6.    Will the company distribute the announcements?

Will the announcements be distributed by the company ?

7.    An artist wrote that interesting article about Paris

That interesting article about Paris was written by an artist

8.    Today a large number of people Speak english

English is spoken by  today a large number of people

9.    Didn’t they return those books to the library ?

Wasn’t those books returned by them to the library ?

10.              The government has not changed the regulation yet

The regulation hasn’t been changed by the government yet

11.              Someone stole all her valuable jewelry last night

All her valuable jewelry was stolen by someone last night

12.              Miss Peter wrote all of the reports from Mr. Johnson

All od the reports from Mr. Johnson was written by Miss Peter

13.              Bad weather has delayed Flight 202 from Miami

Flight 202 from Miami has been delayed cause of bad weather

14.              Did the court devide the money among the children ?

Was the money devided among the children by the court

15.              Many scholars have translated that famous Greek epic

That famous Greek epic has been translated bu many scholars

Active vs Passive

1.    Everyone (shock) by the terrible news yesterday

Everyone was shocked by the terrible nesw yesterday

2.    Almost everyone (enjoy) the lecture last night

Almost everyone enjoyed the lecture last night

3.    English (teach) in the schools of almost every nation

English has been taught in the schools of almost every nation

4.    That proposal (consider) by the members right now

That proposal is being considered by the members right now

5.    The accident (happen) right there at 6.30 last night

The accident happened right there at 6.30 last night

6.    Smith (teach) at the university of Washington since 1948

Smith taught at the university of washington since 1948

7.    Mr. Harris (devide) the class into two sections tomorrow

Mr. Harris will devide the class into two section tomorrow

8.    Wilson (borrow) the money from Brown two weeks ago

Wilson borrowed the money from brown two weeks ago

9.    Not much (say) about the matter since that time.

Not much said about the matter since that time.

10.              My friend (write) to me about it several times now.

My friend is writing to me about it several times now.

11.              Davis (promote) to the rank of sergeant last week.

Davis was promoted to the rank of sergeant last week.

12.              That event (occur) shortly after the meeting last week.

That event occurred shortly after the meeting last week.

13.              All the students (bring) guests to the party tomorrow night.

Guests will be brought by all the students to the party tomorrow night.

14.               Less than half of the cans of paint (use) up to now.

The cans of paint is being used less than half up to now.

15.               More classes in English (list) in the catalog next fall.

The catalog will be listed more classes in English next fall.

16.              Everything (go) well so far. There (be) no trouble yet.

Everything is going well so far. There is no trouble yet.

17.              That movie about Napoleon’s life (disappoint) me greatly.

That movie about Napoleon’s life disappointed me greatly.

18.              The mail (deliver, always) to this office before 10 a.m.

The mail is always deliver to this office before 10 a.m.

19.              Who (furnish) the food for the picnic next weekend?

Who will furnish the food for the picnic next weekend?

20.              At this time, much attention (devote) to that problem.

At this time, much attention is devoting to that problem.

21.              Think carefully. I’m sure you (remember) his name.

Think carefully. I’m sure you remember his name.

22.              We (treat) very kindly by our hosts last Saturday.

Our hosts were treated us very kindly last Saturday.

23.              Mr. Wilson (make) something interesting statements yesterday.

 Something interesting statements were made by Mr. Wilson yesterday.

24.              A new textbook (publish) by that company next year.

That company will publish a new textbook next year.

25.              The noise from the trains (annoy) me terribly last night.

The noise from the trains annoyed me terribly last night.

26.              That old red house (build) in the year 1822.

That old red house was built in the year 1822.

27.              The report (examine, not) by a committee of experts yet.

A committee of expert has not examine the report yet.

28.              Cocktails (serve) to the guests about 10 minutes from now.

Cocktails will be served to the guests about 10 minutes from now.

29.              His sharp remarks (embarrass) everyone last night.

His sharp remarks embarrassed everyone last night.

30.              Fred (introduce) to the fellow by Mr. Brown yesterday.

Mr. Brown introduced Fred to the fellow yesterday.

31.              Listen to this! I think this news (surprise) you!

Listen to this! I think this news will surprise you!

32.              The Ajax Shoe Company (employ) 25 new men next month.

The Ajax Shoe Company will employ 25 new men next month.

33.              Only 25 new students (admit) into the department in 1955.

Only 25 new students were admitted into the department in 1955.

34.               A second coat of paint (spread) over that surface tomorrow.

A second coat of paint will spread over that surface tomorrow.