Find in the text the equivalents of these words and word combinations.

Выполняют ручную работу; в цехах, на строительных площадках; выполняют канцелярскую работу; обслуживающий персонал; элитные работники; управление персоналом; главное управление; требуют особого обращения; смотреть мультфильмы; в рабочее время; ищут идеи; посмертная маска; творческие работники; следовать интуиции; сотрудники, занимающиеся созданием товара; оставьте их в покое; традиционные ежегодные награды за достижения (в работе).

 

Answer the following questions.

1. Who are blue-collar workers?

2. Who are white-collar workers?

3. Who are gold-collar workers?

4. What are the tools Hallmark uses to motivate its most talented employees?

5. What are the three common mistakes in managing gold-collar workers?

6. What are the keys to motivating creative workers?

 

Write about handling creative employees. Give examples from your personal experience.

Вариант 2

Read these sentences and express the same in Russian, paying attention to if-clauses. Define the type of a conditional sentence.

a) If it rains tomorrow, we won’t (shan’t) go to the forest.

b) If I had known about your disease I would have visited you at the hospital.

c) If you worked hard, you would succeed.

d) If you don’t take a taxi, you’ll miss your train.

 

Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to a Subjunctive Mood. Define its type.

a) I wish I knew the customer`s telephone number.

b) Do you wish you had studied English properly at the Institute?

c) He feels sick. He wishes he hadn`t eaten and drunk so much.

d) She looked at me as if she saw me for the first time.

Open the brackets using the proper verb form. Translate the sentences.

a) If you spoke English every day, you (to improve) your language skills.

b) I wish I (to pass) my driving test last Monday.

c) If she (to return) earlier, she would have been able to see him before he left.

d) He wishes he (to know) something about cars.

 

Read the text and translate it.