VOCABULARY

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Pair of trousers A shop assistant
Scarf A teacher
Dressing gown A golfer
Duffle coat A businessman
Pair of jeans A motorcyclist
Petticoat A referee
Pair of Long Johns A policeman
Blouse A doctor
Pair of stockings A conductor
Pair of tights An artist
Dress A camper
Waistcoat A secretary
Raincoat A fireman
A blacksmith
Adjectives A photographer
Strong A gardener
Generous A carpenter
Exciting Bits and pieces
Innocent
Quiet Protactor
Simple Bracelet
Hard-working Plant
Careful Needle
Deep Hook and eye
Rough Candlestick
Sharp Compass
Wealthy Set square
Ugly Stepladder
Happy Bucket
Drunk Padlock
Depressed Zip
Noisy Press stud
Lazy Pins
Mean Cufflinks
Poor
Boring
Attractive
Complicated
Weak
Careless
Shallow
Guilty
Blunt
BEAUTIFUL THINGS-Benson Boone
[Verse 1]
For a while there, it was
But lately, I've been doin' better
Than the last four Decembers I recall
And I see my family every month
I found a girl my parents love
She'll and stay the night, and I think I might have it all
And I thank every day
For the girl He sent my way
But I know the things He gives me, He can take away
And I you every night
And that's a feeling I wanna get used to
But there's no man as as the man who stands to lose you

[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I hope I don't losе you
Mm, please stay
I want you, I need you, oh
Don't take
Thеse beautiful things that I've got

[Chorus]
Please stay
I want you, I need you, oh, God
Don't take
These beautiful things that I've got
Post-Chorus]
Oh, ooh
Please don't take

[Verse 2]
I found my mind, I'm feelin'
It's been a , but I'm finding my
If everything's good and it's great, why do I sit and wait 'til it's gone?
Oh, I'll tell ya, I know I've got enough
I've got and I've got love
But I'm up at night thinkin' I just might lose it all.
BEAUTIFUL THINGS-Benson
Boone
[Chorus]
Please stay
I you, I need you, oh God
Don't take
These beautiful things that I've got

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, ooh

[Outro]
Please stay
I you, I need you, oh God
I need
These beautiful things that I've got
Valentine's Day: What makes a long-lasting
relationship?
Retrieved from BBC News
Making the perfect gin and tonic and having a sense of humour are among the top
tips for relationship longevity offered by some of Wales' most enduring couples.
Josephine and Aubrey Langley, aged 90 and 91, who live in Cardiff, have been
married for 63 years.
They met at a dance hall in Torfaen in 1958.
The couple joined fellow Llys Cyncoed home residents to celebrate Valentine's Day
with a trip down memory lane.
They had their first date in the back row of a cinema in Pontypool and will mark their
64th wedding anniversary later this month.
"We used to go dancing in a church hall. Saturday night was a big night then and we
loved dancing, so that's how we met," Josephine said.

It was the fact that he had a car that helped Aubrey sweep Josephine off her feet.
Recalling the couple's wedding day, Josephine described it as "lovely", saying it had
snowed the night before and there was snow on the mountain.
"I enjoyed every minute of it and then we went off to Bournemouth on our
honeymoon," she added.
Asked what makes a successful marriage, Josephine said: "You've just got to work at
it.
"It doesn't come easy sometimes, but at other times its great."
She added that her husband would frustrate her at times "when he wouldn't dress
up when I wanted him to", adding: "We can have little tiffs - but [it's] not too bad."

Aubrey, however, describes them as "differences, not tiffs".

He said the key to a long-lasting relationship is a good sense of humour, while
Josephine added: "A husband that knows how to barbecue and make an
exceptionally good gin and tonic.

Olwen and Arthur Hayward, aged 100 and 101, have been married for more than 75
years, and are the 15th oldest married couple in the UK where both spouses are
aged over 100.
The pair met in 1943 and enjoyed a scenic walk across the cliff top at Pennard,
Gower, for their first date and they say their loving family has kept their union
strong.
They married in a church ceremony in 1949 with 40 guests and now have two
children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Meanwhile, Patricia Chesney, 83, celebrated 61 years of marriage to her husband

John, 84, on 2 February and joked her advice to young couples was to "run, run,
run".

She added: "Let your husband think he is the boss, as long as he obeys his wife."

The Chesneys met on a Saturday night in Queen Street, Cardiff, in 1959 before
tying the knot four years later and having a daughter.

The Llys Cyncoed residents were treated to a special dinner complete with
Champagne, cocktails and canapes in the care home's dining room decorated with
heart-shaped balloons and rose petals scattered on the tables.
General manager Virgil Frincu said "love is certainly in the air" at the care home,
adding: "It's been wonderful to encourage so many of the residents to reminisce
and share fond memories from their own marriages and relationships."
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job
applicants
Retrieved from BBC News

As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many

highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

Body-language analysis. Vocal assessments. Gamified tests. CV scanners. These are

some of the tools companies use to screen candidates with artificial intelligence
recruiting software. Job applicants face these machine prompts – and AI decides
whether they are a good match or fall short.
Businesses are increasingly relying on them. A late-2023 IBM survey of more than
8,500 global IT professionals showed 42% of companies were using AI screening "to
improve recruiting and human resources". Another 40% of respondents were
considering integrating the technology.
Many leaders across the corporate world hoped AI recruiting tech would end biases
in the hiring process. Yet in some cases, the opposite is happening. Some experts
say these tools are inaccurately screening some of the most qualified job applicants
– and concerns are growing the software may be excising the best candidates.
"We haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that there's no bias here… or that the tool
picks out the most qualified candidates," says Hilke Schellmann, US-based author of
the Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, and an
assistant professor of journalism at New York University. She believes the biggest
risk such software poses to jobs is not machines taking workers' positions, as is
often feared – but rather preventing them from getting a role at all.
Untold harm
Some qualified job candidates have already found themselves at odds with these
hiring platforms.
In one high-profile case in 2020, UK-based make-up artist Anthea Mairoudhiou said
her company told her to re-apply for her role after being furloughed during the
pandemic. She was evaluated both based on past performance and via an AI-
screening programme, HireVue. She says she ranked well in the skills evaluation –
but after the AI tool scored her body language poorly, she was out of a job for good.
(HireVue, the firm in question, removed its facial analysis function in 2021.) Other
workers have filed complaints against similar platforms, says Schellmann.
She adds job candidates rarely ever know if these tools are the sole reason
companies reject them – by and large, the software doesn't tell users how they've
been evaluated. Yet she says there are many glaring examples of systemic flaws.
In one case, one user who'd been screened out submitted the same application
but tweaked the birthdate to make themselves younger. With this change, they
landed an interview. At another company, an AI resume screener had been trained
on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed
"baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often
men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded.
Marginalised groups often "fall through the cracks, because they have different
hobbies, they went to different schools", says Schellmann.
In some cases, biased selection criteria is clear – like ageism or sexism – but in
others, it is opaque. In her research, Schellmann applied to a call centre job, to be
screened by AI. Then, she logged in from the employer's side. She'd received a high
rating in the interview, despite speaking nonsense German when she was supposed
to be speaking English, but received a poor rating for her actual relevant credentials
on her LinkedIn profile.
She worries the negative effects will spread as the technology does. "One biased
human hiring manager can harm a lot of people in a year, and that's not great," she
says. "But an algorithm that is maybe used in all incoming applications at a large
company… that could harm hundreds of thousands of applicants."
'No-one knows exactly where the harm is'
"The problem [is] no-one knows exactly where the harm is," she explains. And,
given that companies have saved money by replacing human HR staff with AI –
which can process piles of resumes in a fraction of the time – she believes firms
may have little motivation to interrogate kinks in the machine.

One biased human hiring manager can harm a lot of people in a year, and that's not great.
But an algorithm that is maybe used in all incoming applications at a large company… that
could harm hundreds of thousands of applicants – Hilke Schellman

From her research, Schellmann is also concerned screening-software companies

are "rushing" underdeveloped, even flawed products to market to cash in on
demand. "Vendors are not going to come out publicly and say our tool didn't work,
or it was harmful to people", and companies who have used them remain "afraid
that there's going to be a gigantic class action lawsuit against them".
It's important to get this tech right, says Sandra Wachter, professor of technology
and regulation at the University of Oxford's Internet Institute.
"Having AI that is unbiased and fair is not only the ethical and legally necessary
thing to do, it is also something that makes a company more profitable," she says.
"There is a very clear opportunity to allow AI to be applied in a way so it makes
fairer, and more equitable decisions that are based on merit and that also increase
the bottom line of a company."
Wachter is working to help companies identify bias through the co-creation of the
Conditional Demographic Disparity test, a publicly available tool which "acts as an
alarm system that notifies you if your algorithm is biased. It then gives you the
opportunity to figure out which [hiring] decision criteria cause this inequality and
allows you to make adjustments to make your system fairer and more accurate",
she says. Since its development in 2020, Amazon and IBM are among the
businesses that have implemented it.
Schellmann, meanwhile, is calling for industry-wide "guardrails and regulation"
from governments or non-profits to ensure current problems do not persist. If
there is no intervention now, she fears AI could make the workplace of the future
more unequal than before.
 Idioms
1. Break a leg
2. Don´t cut corners
3. My words went in one ear and out the other
4. Hang in there
5. I´m green with envy
6. Time flies
7. Don´t spill the beans
8. It´s raining cats and dogs
9. I´m under the weather
10. Hold your tongue
11. You´re pulling my leg
12. You crack me up

A. I´m jealous
B. Good luck
C. It´s raining hard
D. You are joking
E. Do your best instead of skipping something
F. You make me laugh
G. Don´t talk
H. You didn´t listen to me
I. Don´t give up
J. I´m sick
K. Time goes quickly
L. Don´t tell the secret
 VERBS
1.1ª Persona singular Present simple v. dar
2. 2ª persona plural Present Continuous v. correr
3. 1ª persona plural Present Perfect v. leer
4. 3ª persona singular Present simple v.soñar
5. 2ª persona plural Present Perfect v. montar
6. 3ª persona plural Future Simple v. cantar
7. 2ª persona singular Conditional v. ir
8. 3ª persona plural Past Perfect v. ser estar
9. 1ª persona singular Past Continuous v. caminar
10. 2ª persona plural Past Simple v. tener

11.He comprado
12. Soy
13. Comeré
14. ¿Has ido?
15. Había jugado
16. Beberías
17. ¿Caminarás?
18. No tengo
19. No fuiste
20. Estoy trayendo
 Spain claimed their second major trophy in six months by
beating France to win the inaugural Women´s Nations League
Retrived from BBC
La Roja beat England in the World Cup final in August and goals from Aitana
Bonmati and Mariona Caldentey gave them a comfortable victory in Seville.
Ballon d'Or winner Bonmati broke the deadlock from close range in the 32nd
minute, before Caldentey's crisp, first-time finish after the break.
Herve Renard's France side rarely threatened and had no shots on target.
An attendance of 32,657 was announced at Estadio La Cartuja, setting a new
record crowd watching the Spanish women's national team.
That eclipsed the 21,856 who watched Montse Tome's side beat the Netherlands
at the same stadium in Friday's semi-final.
Spain had never beaten France in their 13 previous encounters, but there only
ever looked like one winner from the first whistle.
The hosts dominated the early stages and came close through Irene Paredes, but
the centre-back headed just wide from a corner on 26 minutes.
Their persistence paid off when Bonmati volleyed in Olga Carmona's low cross
after an impressive run down the left from the defender.
Laia Aleixandri and Salma Paralluelo then went close as La Roja looked to double
their lead, but Mariona took her chance and swept Ona Batlle's low ball into the
bottom corner in the 53rd minute.
France will be disappointed not to have had more of a go in their first major final,
but Spain had too much strength at both ends of the pitch.
"Six months ago we won the World Cup and now the Nations League, what more
could you ask for?," Barcelona star Bonmati told Television Espanola.
"It's quite incredible everything we have achieved - this team has no ceiling. World
Cup, now Nations League and now for the Olympics."
The world's number one ranked side now have their first silverware under Tome,
who replaced controversial boss Jorge Vilda after he was sacked following the
World Cup and ex-football federation president Luis Rubiales' forcible kiss on the
lips of forward Jenni Hermoso.
They have won 18 of their last 20 fixtures and head into the 2024 Olympics as
favourites and a force to be reckoned with.
In both their World Cup and Nations League triumphs, Spain finished top scorers
in both tournaments and with the highest average possession in both.