Toea Adrian-Ionuț, RE-B, an III

I. 1.18 Working Conditions

Exercise 1:
1. Vacation
2. Holiday
3. Sick pay
4. Flexitime
5. Maternity
6. Colleagues
7. Contracts
8. Security
9. Duties
10. Workforce
11. Manual
12. Leave
13. Morale
14. Absenteeism
15. Satisfaction

Exercise 2:
1 d 2 c 3 e 4 a 5 b 6 f

II. 1.19 Industrial Relations

Exercise 1:
1. Trade
2. Staff
3. Role
4. Pay
5. Group negotiations
6. Complaints
7. Unfairly treated
8. Dismissed
9. Stop working
10. Ignore
11. Enemy
 12. Unprofitable

Exercise 2:
1 c 2 d 3 e 4 a 5 b

III. 1.20 Redundancy

Exercise 1:
1. Employ
2. Dismiss
3. Merged
4. Competitions
5. Core
6. Demand
7. Recession
8. Delayering
9. Sub-contractors
10. Decision-making
11. Temporary
12. Outscore
13. Reports
14. Created
15. Globalization

o Sack = a da afară
o Fire = a concedia
o Give someone the boot = a-i da papuci cuiva
o Give someone the elbow = a face pe cineva să plece
o Give someone the chop = a concedia
o Lay you off = a fi dat afară
o Make you redundant = a fi redundant

IV. 1.21 Cultural Stereotypes and Management

Exercise 1:
1. Quiet – noisy
2. Hospitable – unfriendly
 3. Lazy – hard-working
4. Narrow-minded – public-spirited
5. Arrogant – modest
6. Generous- reserved
7. Chaotic – well-organized
8. Conservative – progressive
9. Relaxed – serious
10. Trustworthy – mean
11. Lively – tolerant
12. Individualistic – devious

V. 1.23 Collocations – Business

Exercise 1:
1. Big
2. Do
3. Class, set up in
4. Give
5. Go into
6. Partners
7. Trip
8. Plan
9. Leaders
10. Went out of, school
11. Hours
12. Card
13. Cycle
14. Core, get down to
15. Ethics

VI. Production and Operation Management

Exercise 1:
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
Exercise 2:
1 f 2 a 3 d 4 e 5 h 6 b 7 g 8 c

Exercise 3:
1 e 2 a 3 f 4 g 5 h 6 c 7 b 8 d

VII. 2.2 Factory Location

Exercise 1:
1. Subcontractors
2. Facility
3. Retailers
4. Infrastructure
5. Utilities
6. Wholesalers
7. Components
8. Layout
9. Lead time

Exercise 2:
1. Components
2. Layout
3. Infrastructure
4. Facility
5. Retailers
6. Lead time
7. Utilities
8. Wholesalers
9. Subcontractors

Exercise 3:
1 b 2 a 3 g 4 c 5 e 6 d 7 f
VIII. 2.3 Factory Capacity
Exercise 1:
1. A
2. I
3. J
4. F
5. G
6. E
7. B
8. H
9. C
10. D

Exercise 2:
1 b 2 e 3 a 4 g 5 c 6 h 7 f 8 d

IX. 2.5 Inventory

Exercise 1:
1. Inventory
2. Production run
3. Obsolescence
4. Storage
5. Theft
6. Delivery
7. Opportunity cost
8. Discounts
9. Shortages

Exercise 2:
1. Storage
2. Inventory
3. Theft
4. Discounts
5. Production run
 6. Delivery
7. Opportunity cost
8. Obsolescence
9. Shortage

X. 2.5 Just-In-Time Production

Exercise 1:
1. B
2. A
3. G
4. E
5. C
6. F
7. D

XI. 2.6 Factory Layout

Exercise 1:
1. Location
2. Changeover
3. Shut-downs
4. Series
5. Flexibility
6. Continuous
7. Equipment
8. Rehandling
9. Functions
10. Batches
11. Placement
12. Construction

XII. 2.7 Safety

Exercise 1:
1. Working environment
2. Toxic
3. Contamination
4. Emergency
 5. Safety procedures
6. Protective clothing
7. Enforce
8. Injury
9. First aid
10. Fire drills
11. Fire hazard
12. Record

Exercise 2:
1 d 2 g 3 e 4 b 5 h 6 c 7 a 8 f

XIII. 2.8 The Manufacturing Cycle

Exercise 1:

XIV. 2.9 Make and Do

Exercise 1:
1. Janine, can you try to make me a deal with my dentist for this afternoon, please?
2. Michael, can you make me a request? I need to borrow a car.
3. No, we don’t know what went wrong yet, but we’re doing some research.
4. He said I wasn’t working hard enough and I’ really have to make an effort.
5. I can’t tell you now, but we expected to make a decision early next week.
6. We’re doing much better than last year, we’re definitely making progress,
7. We spent three days doing repairs to the warehouse roof after the storm last week.
8. We have made a lot of progress in Japan, and since the profit margin is high, we have
made a lot of money.
9. I checked the figures last night and found that I’d done a lot of damage.
10. It’s either one or the other. You’ll have to make a choice.