Top paying companies

Read the following text about Top paying companies and then try to make a hierarchy of top paying companies in your town, area, country. Have you met someone working there? What are the conditions as far as: time, workload, etiquette, etc. are concerned?

Financial Crisis

Now go to the following online document and express your opinions on the Impact of Financial crisis on people around you: http://123.writeboard.com/qtmpf84i6jagbcmiujksdmtj Try to be specific without mentioning their names. Don't write about general things.

ETIQUETTE RULES FOR THE WORKPLACE

Do you have any workexperience? If so, what do you think are some important business etiquette factors that can contribute to your workplace success?

Then read the following article from Yahoo Finance and pick one aspect you agree with and one you think is less important for your workplace success and argue your position.

What are you doing right now?

Watch the following YT clip. People answer the question:
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Pay attention to what form they are using in their answers.

What am I trying to do? Can you help???

Now it's your turn. WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW? Of course you're writing. Now look what is happening around and write 5 sentences using this structure.

The Pound Land

Have you ever  baught from Pound/Dollar land? or PPT in Romania? What products did you buy? What was worth the money and what wasn't?

Now read the article about this topic here paying attention to the vocabulary. Look up the words that you don't know and then do the following quiz.

Poundland - Dud or Deal? on PhotoPeach


How well did it go? Let us know.

Corporate NOs - Tatoos and bodypiercing

Read the article about dress code policies in recent years which you can find here.
What is your opinion about it? Consider this question from your point of view as a future employer and employee. Do you know of cases when these rules applied? when they did not apply in our country?

How many hours a week do you work?

Now it's time for you to interview your colleagues, friends, family about such routine things. You can either video record or just sound record the interview. If you sound record, you can create an account with Audioboo (same as for the reflections on our English class) and then send us the link to it in the comments. For video recording I will come back with the platform we will use, soon.