Exercise 6. Put in the right endings to the underlined words

Complete the table.

Exercise 5.

Exercise 4. Complete these sentences with a suitable word.

Exercise 1. Answer the questions about Alexandra.

1) Where is she from?

2) Did she always want to be a chef?

3) What was her first position?

4) Was her first salary high?

5) What were the advantages of her first job?

6) Did it take long until she was promoted?

7) How many employees did she have under her control?

8) Why did she left her first job?

9) Did she resign from her second position or was she told to leave?

10) What was her third place of work?

11) Did she like her job in the restaurant from the very beginning?

12) What were her duties in the restaurant besides cooking?

13) What is the key to Alexandra’s success?

Exercise 2. What do these numbers mean to Alexandra Pappas’ life? Find the answer in the UNIT.

1) two years

2) three years

3) five years

4) twenty years

5) a month

6) six months

7) five employees

8) ten restaurants

9) thirty years old

10) eighty years old

Exercise 3. Replace the words in italics with their synonyms from the UNIT.

1) When I was young I wrote an official request for a job of a pilot but I got a polite refusal.

2) I have been working here my whole life: I started 30 years ago as a very junior person in the company.

3) When I started my career 10 years ago I had a very low salary – it was almost nothing.

4) I think he’s a very promising worker; his future possibilities in the job are really great.

5) Nobody expected her to be given a higher position with more money and responsibility so soon.

6) How many workers are under your control?

7) What do you think of your boss? Do you like him?

8) I think I’m fed up with my job – it is so boring! I need a new exciting situation.

9) I’m not sure I would always like working in Russia. One day I would like to go to another country.

10) It goes without saying that such job includes a lot of foreign travel.

11) She was always late at work that’s why the company sacked her.

12) My grand mother is 69 years old but she’s not going to stop working completely.

13) When I last saw Jim he was still without a job and ready for any kind of work.

1) He's not happy in his own country. He wants to work …

2) I don't want a full-time job. I'd prefer to work …

3) She'd like to go on another training …

4) I'm bored in my job. I need a fresh …

5) At the end of this year we should get a good pay …

6) She's got more than a hundred workers under...

7) I didn't know he was the new manager. When did he take…?

8) I know it's not a great job. How much does she…?

9) I think it was a good position – it was stupid not to … for it.

10) For the real professional there’s always room for …

verb	general noun	person
manage
promote
employ
resign
retire
train

1. Paula’s first job was quite interest…

2. Paula was very interest… in foreign travels.

3. Alexandra was really bor… with her job, so she decided to leave it.

4. Her new job wasn’t bor… but nevertheless she didn’t like it.

5. Paula’s first training course seemed very excit… for her.

6. She was very excit… about getting new career opportunity.

7. Her new boss wasn’t very pleas… with her work.

UNIT 9. BUSINESS HOURS

The standard working day in the United Kingdom and the USA starts at 9:00 a.m. and lasts till 5:00 p.m. with lunch time from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Many banks are usually open for customers from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Some businesses and industries traditionally work different hours.

Most employees have a five-day working week, Monday through Friday. The working week is between 35 and 40 hours long. Overtime is quite common and is generally paid, often at a premium to the basic rate of pay. The weekend usually starts on Friday night and lasts till Monday. Thus on Saturdays and Sundays most businesses are closed. But as to shops they are open on Saturdays and some of them are open on Sundays.

In Britain the law does not say what shops can be open on Sundays but it says what goods can be sold on Sundays. They are newspapers, magazines and fresh food. If the law is broken, criminal proceedings may be taken. Many officials and the public demand that the Sunday trading rules should be abolished in the UK.

Most businesses are closed on public or national holidays.

The main public holidays of the UK are the follows:

New Year’s Day 1 January

Good Friday in April

Easter in April

Easter Monday in April

May Day in May

Christmas Day 25 December

Boxing Day 26 December

In the United States the following main holidays are celebrated:

New Year’s Day 1 January

Washingtons’s Birthday 20 February

Easter in April

Memorial Day in May

Independence Day 4 July

Labour Day in September

Veterans’ Day in November

Thanksgiving Day in November

Christmas Day in December

All the main public or national holidays in the USA and UK are bank holidays, which means banks are closed on those days. Besides there are some other bank holidays, when banks and many other businesses are closed.

The bank holidays besides public or national holidays are:

Spring or Summer (Bank) Holiday - in May or June

Autumn (Bank) Holiday - in August or September

It dates back to the nineteenth century when by the Bank Holiday Act and a Supplementary Act these days were constituted bank holidays in the UK.

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