F2F Class Notes 12th September (Celeste)***

Homework for next class: Read the article below, prepare to talk about the vocabulary you don’t know.

cook the meal – I cooked lunch and dinner.

I cooked lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday.

I cooked lunch and dinner this past weekend.

I cooked lunch and dinner this week.

Original

The LA designer Michael named the kindle. One day Michael get the call from Amazon CEO, Jeff. Jeff wanted to name Amazon’s e-book that turned out to be Kindle. He want named in an unbragging, unboasting, meaningful way. When you are stuck in line or in the airport, you can read your favorite blogs or half a dozen books you are reading. Kindle means to start to burn, or make your life bright, or make yourself to be aroused, and the roots came from old language. You can find this point in the literature. But I think the most important thing is you can get the instructions from others and share your opinions with somebody through the kindle.

Edited

An LA designer, Michael, named the Kindle. One day Michael got the call from Amazon CEO, Jeff. Jeff wanted Michael to name Amazon’s e-book. He wanted it named in an unbragging, unboasting, meaningful way. When you are stuck in line or in the airport, you can read your favorite blogs or half a dozen books you are reading. Kindle means to start to burn, or make your life bright, or make yourself to be aroused, and the roots come from an old language. Michael’s wife said she proved that the name has deep roots in literature.  The knowledge we read in books is like fire. We get it from our neighbors, learn and study it at home, share it with each other and then it becomes ours. No other name can compete with Kindle.

Brown shoes could mean you fail a job interview

University graduates hoping to get a job as an investment banker in London could be disappointed if they wear brown shoes to their job interview. A new report highlights how the investment banking industry in the UK follows centuries-old, unwritten rules about how bankers should conduct themselves. The study was undertaken by the British government’s Social Mobility Commission. Researchers looked at how the industry selected people in job interviews. They found that the industry was governed by “relatively opaque” codes of conduct. They wrote: “For men, the wearing of brown shoes with a business suit is generally considered unacceptable…within investment banking.”

The survey suggested that people from working class backgrounds had to change their behaviour to fit in with bankers who were from middle and upper classes. One newly-appointed banker said: “I felt like my accent was a bit out of place, so I changed it.” The study also said the industry discriminated against those who did not go to elite universities. The Commission’s chairman said: “Bright, working-class kids are being systematically locked out of top jobs in investment banking because they did not attend a small handful of elite universities.” He added: “It is shocking…that some investment bank managers still judge candidates on whether they wear brown shoes with a suit, rather than on their skills and potential.”

Read more: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1609/160906-job-interview.html#ixzz4K0yFN0xF