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Employment patterns, economic migration

Employment patterns V Vocabulary note
make an employee redundant; lay an
Hill Which of these industries are people employed
employee off (informal) = an employer
in where you live? Put a (/).
no longer needs members of staff:
My father was/has been made
entertainment
agriculture mining
redundant.

finance
construction public services
They're laying me off next month.
customer services retail dismiss an employee; fire/sack an
insurance
employee (informal) = an employee is
manufacture
education technology
unsuitable:
log Match each word list with one of the industries in 1.1. He wasfired because he always came
in late.
The management dismissed himfor
coverage; premium; payout; policy insurance
misconduct.
2 resign = the employee chooses to
satisfaction; expectations; bill; loyalty
leave the employer:
contractor; labourer; site; estate
3
I resigned two weeks ago.
mineral; extraction; pit; drill
4 retire = art employee has come to the
harvest; pesticide; tractor; produce
5 end of their career:
My dad retired when he was 62.
venue; hospitality; promotion; festival
6
Listen to three people talking about work. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

Speaker 3
Speaker 1 Speaker?
His father used to run the farm.
3 He has lost two jobs.
1 5
She got her first job in a local
factory.
4 He is quite relaxed about
6 He employs five people.
2
having lost his job.
She now works in India.
1.4 ICM Listen again and complete these sentences with words used by the speakers.
When Speaker 1 left school, there was very little
1
Speaker 1 was trained in
2
The work Speaker 1 did when she was younger is now done in an Indian
3
Speaker 2's father
4 at the age of sixty-five.
5
from two jobs.
Speaker 2 has been
6 in middle age.
Speaker 2 thinks it is more worrying to be
Speaker 3 doubts that his children will
7 him on the farm.
Speaker 3 finds it difficult to make enough money to
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