Answer Key
Vocabulary test
Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
- salary
- to fire
- temporary
- to lay off
- resign
- a contractor
- promotion
- background
- founder
- boss
- You have two choices, Smithers, you can [resign] today, or I can fire you tomorrow.
- Please understand that this position is only [temporary] , and that you will have to find something else in six months.
- I don't know anything about this candidate's [background] – for example, where did he go to school? What was his first job?
- Is Jack Daniels really the [founder] of that company, or is he just a fictional character?
- The starting [salary] is only five thousand a month, but that will increase to seven thousand after you have completed your trial period.
- Sometimes, all I do is make coffee and run errands for my [boss] . I thought I was supposed to be an "executive secretary", not a waitress!
- We try to do most of our accounting in-house, but occasionally we use [a contractor] when we have too much of our own work to do.
- If the government closes down that chemical plant, they will have [to lay off] over two thousand employees. That won't be popular with the press.
- I've never had [to fire] anyone in my life, but you will be the first if you don't start working harder.
- In most companies, it is standard to receive a raise or a [promotion] , or both, every twelve to eighteen months.