Authors: Joanna Bereś & Anne Crowley Publisher: Polish Association for Standards in Language Education - PASE. First published: 2008. Book: 94 pages with a CD which contains the audio for the Listening Tasks, the Teacher’s Guide with the transcripts of all the listening activities and the Interactive Review Exercise for each unit. ISBN: 1-2-1 Legal w/ CD: 978-83-926707-0-4 Printed in Poland. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Mrs Jolanta Urbanik, the reviewer of the books. The publisher, co-publishers and authors are very grateful to all the teachers and students who participated in the piloting phase. Production Credit: Voice Recording and Post-Production Audio by Sparkly In My Rye Media Productions Ltd., Dublin, Ireland: www.simrmedia.com Technical support and the Internet communications by Poznań Technical University, Poland: www.put.poznan.pl Cover design by Miłosz Piróg Cover photo by fotolia.com Design & layout by ACTIS, Piotr Chmura-Cegiełkowski Unit Aims UNIT LANGUAGE BUILT-UP SPEAKING LISTENING WRITING READING 1 EMPLOYMENT ISSUES page 5 Build-up of employment vocabulary related to personal experiences. Job interview Formal and informal register Expressing views and opinions Comparing Job interviews to select candidate CV Cover letter Article summary Job advertisement CVs Cover letter Newspaper article 2 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS page 17 Build-up of vocabulary related to contracts, equal employment rights and other regulations. Employment contracts Employer’s/employee’s rights and obligations Role plays on negotiating Negotiations Radio broadcast Formal letter of request Employment contract Excerpts from UN documents Newspaper article 3 AGREEMENTS page 28 Build-up of vocabulary related to various agreements. Various agreements Insurance Role play on car rentals Presentation guidelines Car rental Insurance radio broadcast Word formation Car rental agreement Bills of Sale Passenger rights statement 4 TAXES page 38 Build-up of vocabulary related to taxes. Tax related definitions Tax systems Tax reforms Setting up a company Tax return Informal letter to start a business Newspaper article Wikipedia article 5 REAL ESTATE page 49 Build-up of relevant vocabulary related to real estate. Real estate advertisements Role play Evictions Mediation Professions Rental agreement Process server Formal letter of inquiry Forming questions Advertisements Rental agreement Eviction notice Deeds content 6 IMPORT EXPORT page 64 Build-up of vocabulary related to imports and exports. Quiz GM food Lobbying Tracking goods Arms trade Broadcast Formal letter of request GM foods ID tracking technology Press release BOL 7 CRIME page 79 Build-up of vocabulary related to crime. Report a crime Make predictions Corruption and ethics Terrorism Public Service Message Writing questions Headlines Crime story OECD report Terrorism Act Page samples