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E-GAZARCHIN UNIVERSITY
28th October 2014 English Language Teacher Orkhontuya. B /MA/
Seminar 3
Approved by Head of Department Training Enkhjargal .D/MA/Prepared by Orkhontuya. B /Inspector/
A job application
These words are often used in job advertisements. Companies look for people who are:
self-starters, proactive, self-motivated, or self-driven: good at working on their own. methodical, systematic and organized: can work in a planned, orderly way.
computer-literate: good with computers.
numerate: good with numbers = able to do calculations
motivated: very keen to do well in their job.
talented: naturally very good at what they do.
team players: people who work well with other people.
The right person
Wages, salary and benefits The average salary is $ 12,000 a year (be on a salary of something) John’s annual/monthly/basic/base salary is just under $ 40,000
S1: How much do they pay you? S2: They ‘re only paid about $ 4 an hour/week/day. ( be paid weekly = get paid)
• Pay compensation /damages (give someone money because you have done something against them)
remuneration formal (the pay you give someone for something they have done for you)
Pay and benefits
The company were forced to pay $ 5,000 in compensation.
Pay (in) cash ( Can I pay by credit card?) by cheque /credit card for ( Mum paid for my driving lessons.)
• Fringe benefits with this job: an additional service or advantage
given with a job besides wages: overtime/bonus/tip/perk such as goods, meals or a car.
I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
Customers and clients
customers is someone who buys something from a particular shop. A client is someone who pays for a service a hairdresser and her clients. A patron of a particular restaurant, bar (is someone who eats
or drinks there/fairly formal word/)
Buyers, sellers and the market
Company Products/services Customer / client base
Auto comp products: car components Customer base: car companies
Best Travel services: package holidays customer base: general public
Dig by and Charles professional services:architecture
client base or clientele: companies, government organizations and the pubic
Digitco products: cheap computers Customer base: general public
A shopper is someone who is involved in the activity of buying things from shop. A consumer is anyone who pays for goods and services. It is
used especially when you are talking about people’s rights. An user is someone or something that uses a product, service road users, computer /library. End- users the person who uses a particular product, rather
than people who make or develop it (when a company buys computers for its staff to use, the staff are the end-users.)
Buyers and sellers Buyer someone buys something expensive such as a house. Discounts for first –time buyers. A buyer for a chain store. Seller someone who sells something # buyer. Retailer / wholesaler a person or business that sells goods to
customers in a shop. Merchant someone whose job is to buy and sell wine, coal,
timber = lumber AmE or small company that does this: He had a job with an Edinburgh wine merchant.
Dealer someone who buys and sells a particular product, especially an expensive one. He’s a dealer in modern art. Trader someone who buys and sells goods or STOCKS BrE inventories AmE. Vendor someone who sells things, especially on the street. The market The market, the free market and market economy describe an economy system where prices, jobs, wages e.c.t are not controlled by the government, but depend on what people want to buy and how much they are willing to pay. Word combinations with ‘market’
forces the way a market economy makes sellers produce what pressures people want, at prices they are willing to pay market place producers and buyers in a particular market economy, and the way they behave prices prices that people are willing to pay, rather than ones fixed by a government reforms changes a government makes to an economy, so that it become more like a market economy
