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    Carol Wyatt was about to leave her job six months ago due to stress from her daily commute. She had to care for her elderly mother each morning before braving rush hour traffic to get to work on time. The chief executive acknowledged the council had issues with staff recruitment, sickness, and low morale. After a union suggestion, the council received funds to pilot a work-life balance program, where employees provided feedback about ideal working conditions. Staff raised concerns about rigid hours and core hours.

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    Carol Wyatt was about to leave her job six months ago due to stress from her daily commute. She had to care for her elderly mother each morning before braving rush hour traffic to get to work on time. The chief executive acknowledged the council had issues with staff recruitment, sickness, and low morale. After a union suggestion, the council received funds to pilot a work-life balance program, where employees provided feedback about ideal working conditions. Staff raised concerns about rigid hours and core hours.

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    Carol Wyatt was about to leave her job six months ago due to stress from her daily commute. She had to care for her elderly mother each morning before braving rush hour traffic to get to work on time. The chief executive acknowledged the council had issues with staff recruitment, sickness, and low morale. After a union suggestion, the council received funds to pilot a work-life balance program, where employees provided feedback about ideal working conditions. Staff raised concerns about rigid hours and core hours.

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    Examen de incheiere a situatiei scolare

    Varianta 2
    Proba scrisa
    10 points granted

    READING COMPREHENSION___________________________________________ 20 points

    A. Read the text and answer the questions: (4x5p=20p)

    GETTING A LIFE

    Six months ago, Carol Wyatt was on the verge of leaving her job as an inquiry officer in the
    housing benefit department of Merton council, south London. It wasn´t that she didn´t like it. She had
    even taken a salary cut to take the post in November last year. But the journey to work was taking its
    toll.
    She had to be in for 9am, when the phones started ringing, but that meant caring for her elderly
    mother (and her dog) every morning before braving the rush hour traffic. “I used to get quite stressed
    sitting on the bus, hardly moving, knowing there was nothing I could do about it,” she says. “I don´t
    handle that sort of thing too well.”
    Normal flexi-time did not apply to the job and Wyatt told her line manager she wanted to leave.
    She was not the only one. As the authority´s assistant chief executive, Keith Davis, readily admits, the
    council was hardly what they call an employer of choice. “We had recruitment problems, high level of
    sickness and high staff turnover,” he says. “And there was a general feeling that staff morale was low.
    We felt we needed to do something pro-active.”
    Prompted by the public services union Unison, Merton applied for – and won – 50,000 pounds
    from the government´s challenge fund to pilot a ´work-life balance´scheme in three departments,
    including housing and council benefits. A programme was devised after a series of focus groups, run by
    consultancy Briony Group, in which employees were asked to say how they would like to work in an
    ideal world. Staff raised concerns about rigid working times and inflexible core hours and came up
    with suggestions for a four-day week and homeworking.

    1. What happened to Carol Wyatt six months ago?


    2. Why did she dislike her job?
    3. How was the issue explained by the chief executive?
    4. What concerns were raised?

    USE OF ENGLISH__________________________________________________________ 40 points


    A. Complete the sentences with relative pronouns from the box (10x2=20p)

    1. The new movie is about a boy _____________ has lost his parents in a car accident.
    2. He is the young man, _____________ wife left him for someone else.
    3. The DVD recorder _____________ I bought at this store a few days ago is not working.
    4. That's the book _____________ I recommended reading in class.
    5. Is this the hotel _____________ you are staying for the tournament?
    6. My dad, _____________ travels a lot on business, is in Australia at the moment.
    7. It was midnight _____________ the first rescue team arrived at the scene of the accident.
    8. There are several reasons _____________ I am not allowed to give you any information.
    9. We stayed at the famous Rockstar hotel, _____________ also had an indoor swimming pool.
    10. Did you write back to the person _____________ offered you a job?

    B. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: (5x4=20p)

    1. I would have read the letter if I ____________________ (know) it was from you.
    2. If Tony doesn’t help in the garden I ____________________ (not finish) my work in time.
    3. If you ____________________ (not tell ) me about Maxwell’s birthday I would forget it.
    4. We _________________________ (catch) the train earlier if Mary had found her purse.
    5. If Susan ____________________ (learn) the poem she would have known the answer

    WRITING SKILLS_______________________________________________________ 30 points

    Write a review about your favourite movie. Write at least 180 words.

    Director adjunct, Profesori examinatori,

    Prof. Popuș Maria Odobasianu Lavinia


    Feneși Ștefania

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