LEAD-IN

1. What is Labour Force?

2. Can you give the definition of the skilled labour?

3. Who represents the supply and demand of labour?

4. What do you think the Employment Contract is?

 

5. What personal and professional skills do you need for a successful business career (specialist training, knowledge of foreign languages, outgoing personality)?

 

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

 

Reading drills

Ex.1. Read the words in the following groups. Pay attention to the word stress.

 

1. Words with the stress on the first syllable:market, good, service, buyer, seller, worker,wages, benefit, output, workforce, specify, aspect, effort, leisure, surplus, reasonable, union, government, pressure, attribute, adequate, charitable, (to) highlight, obvious, license, recent, loyalty, argue;

2. Words with the stress on the second syllable:demander, supplier, condition,employment, employer, (to) employ, retiree, retirement, uniqueness, component, decision, (to) exceed, excess, amount, attract, reduction, internal, external, acquire, recruitment, performance, degree, (to) abandon, (to) secure, amount, (to) exist;

Polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:negotiations, productivity,employee, opportunity, individual, population, allocation, activity, applicability, theoretical, eliminate, commodity, underbid, irrespective, particular, legislation, impediment, unfettered, relatively, relationship, transaction, comparison, implication, responsive, unemployment, distinguishing, diversity, environment, association, occupation, satisfactory, flexibility, boundary, similarity, experience, satisfactory, publications, significant, requirement, disparity.

TEXT A: HOW THE LABOR MARKET WORKS