Workbook chapter 7

Labor

Task 1       

Which of the words do not belong? Underline the word which is different.

a. wage   -   amount   -  salary -  money - process

b. congress  -  companies - president  -  authorities  -  senate

c. national  -  country  -  federal  -  state 

Task 2       

Discuss with your fellow student work experience that you have had.

Helpful words:      

working hours (= arbeidstid), salary (= lønn), pay day (= lønningsdag), colleague (= kollega), part time (= deltid)

Task 3       

These sentences have been divided in two. Put them back together one part from each paragraph. Write the complete sentences in your notebook.

If you want to have a part time job,

If you want to make sure that your salary is right,

If the Congress is for a law on salary,

If a company breaks any rule on employment of children,

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the President has to sign it before it is effective.

it will be punished financially.

you can call the Department of Labor.

you have to be at least 16 years old.

Task 4       

Look up some adds on jobs. You can use a newspaper, text-TV or Internet. Write an application for the job. Look up how to write it in  chapter 2 “Practical English”.

Task 5       

Many workers are members of trade unions. Find out what trade unions you have available in your field when you start working.