Q6 .Read the following passage and answer the questions: Mona is of the millennial generation which uses and familiarizes with communications, media, and digital technologies. All day at work she loves to surf the web, email, chat and connect with her friends through face book and twitter. She would come dressed up in flashy clothes, click selfies and post on the internet all the time. Sometimes she would also call up or video-chat with her friends, sitting in her cubicle. If you check her status on social network, she is always online. Sometimes, during the lunch break she also loves to play online games. People around in the office would constantly get disturbed by the noise of her phone and
laptop. Sometimes they’d even have to walk up to her cubicle and ask her to keep the volume low.
Problem for her arises when one of her Boss gets annoyed with her habits because she often misses the deadline. The reasons she gave when the HR Manager called for an explanation was that no one told her about the company rules related to surfing policies and that she was working on the retail design for a video- gaming company which required her to stay online all day. The HR Manager gives Mona ‘a hard warning’ which she does not take well. She is unsatisfied with the decision and is complaining all the time. She is unable to understand the company’s disposition towards her. She does not realize the importance of workplace etiquettes and professional behaviour.
It cannot be denied that nowadays, practically everyone uses the internet at work, and the rules of what is and isn’t acceptable are harder to police in the workplace. The company never prohibits their employees to surf the internet as long as it has a correlation with their jobs and it is common sense to realize that any other web activity, not related to our jobs, should not be accessed at work.
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i) What are the various cubicle etiquette related norms that one should keep in mind? ii) What should one keep in mind when selecting one’s workday wardrobe?
iii) What should you do when your phone rings in the middle of a meeting?
iv) Which of the following does not qualify as necessary to social communication?
I think summer is the best season of all because it is warm, the nature is beautiful and we have great opportunities for rest. Summer is a time of holidays. We can go anywhere, spend our time near a river or a lake on fresh, green grass, swim in warm water, or climb mountains, play different games, ride a bicycle and so on.
I spend my summer holidays at my granny’s. There are many things there to do. What I did most of the time - I swam in the sea and sunbathed. Sometimes I made a fire with my friends at the seaside and cooked potatoes there. It was wonderful. We told anecdotes to each other, and did everything we wanted. I also got used to walk alone in the forest.
When August was coming to its end, I went on a small voyage by ship. The ship name was “Sevastopol”.
But this summer wasn’t for me only sugar and honey. I have passed through the graduating exams after school and entering exams in the university. So the bigger part of my summer vacations I spent sitting with the books. Of course, it was not interesting, but I’m glad that I did it because now I’m a student of the best university in our country.
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Я думаю, лето - самое лучшее время года, потому что тепло, вокруг очень красиво и у нас есть чудесная возможность отдохнуть. Лето - время отпусков и каникул. Мы можем поехать куда угодно, проводить время у реки или озера на свежей зеленой траве, плавать в теплой воде, или подняться в горы, или играть в различные игры, кататься на велосипеде и т.д.
Я провожу летние каникулы у моей бабули. Там есть чем заняться. Большую часть времени я плавал в море и загорал. Иногда я разжигал с друзьями костер на берегу и мы пекли в нем картошку. Это было замечательно. Мы рассказывали друг другу анекдоты, и делали все, что хотели. А еще я часто ходил один в лес.
В конце августа я поехал на небольшую морскую прогулку. Судно называлось "Севастополь".
Но этим летом я не только развлекался. Я через выпускные экзамены в школе и вступительные экзамены в университете. Так что большую часть летних каникул я провел за книгами. Конечно, это было не очень интересно, но я рад, что я через это, потому что теперь я - студент лучшего университета нашей страны.