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MALE SECRETARIES IN THE UK

UNIT 9.

Payday

You will receive the payment of your salary once a week, every two weeks, or once a month. This payment may be in cash (currency), but most workers are paid by bank check. However, the actual amount of payment that you receive will always be less than the amount the employer has agreed to pay you. Your employer is required to subtract some money from your salary. These subtractions are called deductions (Federal Income Tax, State taxes and local taxes, Social Security and other deductions). You may also wish to have your employer make other deductions for you. The amount of salary your employer has agreed to pay you is called your gross salary. The amount of money you receive after deductions have been made is called net salary.

Look at the MALE SECRETARIES IN THE UK Reading text. Read it very quickly and answer the questions below:

1. What percentage of secretaries are male?

2. What proportion of secretarial students are male?

Look at the paragraph headings below. Match them to the paragraph;

in the reading text Be careful! One of the paragraphs has no heading. Think of

Why people want male secretaries.

Introduction.

Which men become secretaries?

Statistics about male secretaries.

What stops men becoming secretaries?

Read the text again. Are the sentences below TRUE or FALSE?

1. Everyone who asks for a male secretary can have one.

2. Young women find employment more easily than young men.

3. Most men who go to the secretarial colleges want to work as secretaries.

4. Men in secretarial jobs can earn quite a lot of money.

5. Most of the men don't stay in their jobs for very long.

6. Women executive and personnel managers prefer female secretaries.

7. More women who have been to university are applying for secretarial jobs than in the past.

8. More people who start work as secretaries move to more responsible jobs.

9. Men like employing male secretaries.

Read the following words:

according, increasing, unfortunately, vacancies, creative, plentiful, emotional, pressure, survey, flexible, attitude, qualification, obstacle, embarrassing, ironic.

Read and translate the following word combinations:

employment agencies, male temps, recruiting agency, secretarial staff, positive choice, regular hours, secretarial position, need extra money, relatively well-paid, high-powered woman executive, cope better, status symbol, personnel manager, menial and boring.

Classify the words according to the category of speech:

employment, personal, increasingly, director, available, recruitment, secretarial, basic, usually, journalism, positive, creative, plentiful, emotional, logical, flexible, suitable, academic, employer, situation, ironic.

Recast the following words, using nouns instead of verbs:

employ, create, prefer, manage, pay, dedicate, graduate, provide, use, know, tend, recruit.

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