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Word association 1 The four we italics in each of these sentences can be linked by one other word, All these words have human r connections. What are they? Write your answers in the grid at the bott he page (the first and last letters of each word have been done for you). if you do this correctly, you will reveal something in the sfig@led vertical strip that all candidates should haw 1. This word can come before accounting, analisis and factor, and after: marginal 2. This word can come before iy, wage and 3 review and 4 5 transfer and work, and after evening and day cover, examination, insurance and report. 7 force and dispute, and after, skilled and manual 8 dafier full-time and temporan’ word can come before policy and cover, and after national and medical. and after eamed 10. This wor ome befor tax and sup net ome before enterpy word can ownership, secretary and sector, né and con fributions, and after occupational and portabl cy and appointment, and after senior and skeleton. 14, work and law, and after fixed-term and under. ice, assistant, contract and develoomer Aieinqeson jesauab general vocabulary Word association 2 Link the verbs in sentences 1~ 15 with a noun from the bax to-make word ‘partnerships’. The first one has been done as an example accounts © anappointment © acomplaint © -acontract © instructions ajob * apension ¢* apost ¢ qualifications ¢ redundancy ¢ resignation rules * asalay * atax * werk 1. You can start, bein or outof, look for, offer or return to_work 2. Youcan follow, carry out, give, issue or receive 3 You can acquire, gain, hold, lack or nea 4. You can announce, avoid, face, receive or take 5. You can draw, eam, offer, pay, raise, review or reduce 6 You can offer, negotiate, sian, break, terminate or renew . 7. You can apply for, offer, create, accept, leave er turn down & You can make, arrange, schedule, confirm, keep or cancel # 3, Yau can levy, impose, lift, deduct, raise or introduce 10. You can pay, settle, keep or falsify. 11. You can announce, tender, dernand, hand in, offer er accept 12. You can collect, pay into, draw, take out, qualify for or invest in 13. You can make, resolve, respand to, uphold, deal with, investigate or be cause for 14. You can break, enforce, obey, disobey, violate, bend, relax or comply with 15. You can apply for, offer, take up, hold, fil, be appointed to or accept Word association 3 Part 1 identify the 13 words in this box by reading from left to right (p) and from right to left (@ directions of the arrows, The first one has been done for you as an example. following the Alejnqeson jesauab > (pees tat Ft axe mana B® @alftlesss enisubtnemeg dd % bourpaycecareerecompany ® End | ai rts udnibojselas@& Part 2: Each of the words above can be used before these groups of words. Decide which word can come before each group. Word group 10 has been done for you. ‘Graup 1 * comparability, day, differentials, freeze, hike, package, party, rise, round, scale ‘Group 2. * abatement, adjustment, allowance, bracket, code, credit, declaration, exemption, form, shelter, ‘threshold ‘Group 3: * audit, committee, course, developrent, education, function, ratio, style, team, technique, trainee 9, cuts, cycle, description, dissatisfaction, enlargement, enrichment, freeze, loading, offer, opportunities, ratation ‘(Group 5. = charges, dispute, force, grading, injunction, market, mobility, relations, tumover, wastage Group 6 + accident, action, development, disease, dispute, health, practices, relations, tribunal, unrest (Graup 7: * car, director, executive, handbook, law, loyalty, secretary, town, union Group 8: * analysis, assistant, budget, campaign, chart, department, drive, executive, force, manager, representative, target ‘Group 9 . agency, appeintment, association, canteen, incentives, manage! it, Outing, representative, status, ‘tumover Group 10: + department, error, file, fraud, language, listing, literate, manager, programmer, readable, services, system (Answer = computer) Group 1 * anchor, break, change, development, expectations, ladder, opportu woman s, path, pattem, structure, Group 12: * address, agent, card,-centre, college, cycle, expenses, letter, plan, school Group 13: * appraisal, assessment, certification, confidence, employed, fulfilment, managed team, starter general vocabulary Word association 4: salary and wage 1 Rearrange these letters to make adjectives that can came before nage and salary. The first letter of reach word has been uni balelevi ginilv cabis moinnla iuimmmn honymtl greevea 9 alnuan eyyria 2. Complete this paragraph with verbs from the box. command © cut © dock © daw © can © fall_ © offer * pay # raise # rise # reduce An employee can (a) ortb) awage or salary. An employer can (c), (a @ ® or to) salaries or wages. IF an employee is persistentty late or does something wrong, the employer can (h) his wages. Wages and salaries can (i er i) ‘An experienced worker who isin great demand can (k) a high wage or salary from a new em ployer. 3 Decide whether these statements are true or false: (a) Changes made to wages are called wage adjustments. (b) The basis on which an employee is paid is called a wage formation. (@.A woge-price spiraf occurs when prices fall, and so wage: {¢) The act of keeping increases in wages under control s called a wage restraint. | as well, (6) A.wage freeze is 2 petiod during which 2 company doesn't pay ary wages. Af) The differences in wages between employees in sitrilar types of jobs are celled wage differences (9) A wages floor is the department in a company which is responsible for paying the employees th) A financial benefit offered as a reward to employees who perform very well is called @ wage incentive. 4. Complete these dictionary definitions with words from the box. bands © ceiling © cut * deductions © drift expectations © review © — structure @) Salary refers to money which a company removes fram salaries to pay to the government as tax, National Insurance, etc. tb) A salary is the organisation of salaries in'a company with different rates of pay for different jobs. (9 Salary is a situation where an increase in pay is greater than that of offically negotiated rates. (a) Salary are the hopes of an employee that their salary will increase. Assay is a re-exarrination by an employer of an employee's pay asalay is the highest level on a pay scale that an employee can achieve under his or her contract, 19) Salary are all the selaries at different levels in a company. th) A salary is@ sudden reduction in salary.

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