Unit 10
Activity Book,
Page 51
Stepping into the business world
- Business Studies is the popular choice for students who are choosing a degree course in the UK .
- There are two choices for students after graduating which are going on for further study and taking up employment.
- Companies offer graduate training schemes which are a kind of apprenticeship.
- The twenty-two-year-old Ricky Miles is about to graduate in Business Studies.
- Business Studies is a four-year course which includes two periods of work experience. Each work experience lasted six months.
- The two periods of work experience weren't in the same year.
- Ricky Miles has studied many courses over those four years, such as Maths, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Sales, Management, Advertising and IT.
- The Management course, is about recruiting, managing staff, and how to deal with conflict.
- IT is a very important course because computer skills are essential.
- Recruiting means Finding suitable employees.
- Marketing means Promoting your product or finding customers.
- The work experience looks great on his curriculum vitae.
- A company offered Ricky Miles paid work last summer
- Work experience means a period of time that someone spends working in a particular place.
- Ricky Miles worked in a company that provides financial products that are savings and pensions.
- Pensions are money you save over your lifetime to pay for your old age.
- Ricky Miles kept his eye on different people, because he wanted to know what they were doing. He checked their calculations.
- Ricky Miles's job in the sales department was to follow up web enquiries and send out further information to possible clients.
- Ricky Miles has applied for a job with a bank and he is waiting to find out whether or not he will get an interview.
Pronoun Reference
| Pronoun | line | Reference |
| who | 2 | students |
| some | 3 | students |
| them | 4 | students |
| which | 6 | graduate training schemes |
| We | 7 | the interviewers |
| who | 8 | Ricky Miles |
| It | 11 | Business Studies |
| Each one | 13 | two periods of work experience |
| they | 14 | periods of work experience |
| you | 15 | Ricky Miles |
| I (in the text all) | 19 | Ricky Miles |
| which | 20 | Management, |
| it | 27 | he work experience |
| me | 28 | Ricky Miles |
| they | 38 | different people |
| them | 39 | different people |
| their | 39 | different people |
| you | 39 | the interviewers |
| My | 42 | Ricky Miles |
| it | 43 | the job |