1. In Britain, children can have a part time Job When they are 13. Lots of teenagers work in the evenings or at weekends as shop assistants, or in restaurants and fast food places. Others deliver newspapers before they go to school in the morning. Girls often find work as baby sisters, in one school near London, 60/º of students said that they had part time jobs. But why do they work? Most say that they want to buy new clothes and Cds. They don’t need money for their families.
2. But part time jobs are often hard, and not very exciting. Most part time jobs don’t get much money – perhaps two or three ponds an hour, if they’re lucky. Of course, there are positive things for teenagers who do part time jobs.
3. They get important work experience and learn many things about the world. But the biggest problem is tureens. Students who work in the evening in a supermarket or a restaurant feel tired at school the next morning; you can’t study well when you are tired.
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A tradução do parágrafo 1, 2 e 3 deverá ser entregue em 12/08 / 1. Language changes all the time. New words and phrases appear and evolve. The words and pronunciations used by young people in UK can be very different to those used by adults. Living in multicultural society has an effect on language, especially on young people, whose friends are often from a mix of backgrounds. TV and music also have a big impact on the language of the young. Often UK singers sing in American accents without realising.
2. Young British people use a lot of language that you usually can’t find in most dictionaries. These extremely informal words and expressions are known as “slang”. It is not possible to make a complete list of modern British slang. By the time you finished the list, it would be out of date! New words come and go like fashions.
3. Professor Kerswill, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University, said: “Young people try to make themselves stand out from younger children and parents and to some extent they are trying to create a code which teachers can’t break. Words are contagious. They can be spread by music and Facebook and TV. ” He has been researching a multi-ethnic accent which has grown up in inner city London and he added. “This accent, and probably the slang too started in poorer urban areas but has been taken on by kids in wealthier parts of the country.” But he said despite some examples like this there was also a lot of “regional development”.
A tradução do parágrafo 4, 5 e 6 deverá ser entregue em 18/08 / 4. Not everybody uses slang and not everybody likes it. A school in Sheffield, in the north of England, recently instructed its pupils to stop using slang words such as hiya (hello), cheers and ta (both mean thank you). The head teacher says that if young people learn to speak ‘correctly’ this will help them get a place at university and a good job.
5. When British people use language like this, it’s no surprise that some students say they can’t understand native speakers. But perhaps learners don’t need to worry about communicating with native speakers so much. Research shows that most of the English spoken in the world today is spoken between non-native speakers of the language. In fact, when we think about ‘International English’, there is no such thing as native or non-native speakers.
6. So, how important is it to understand these slang words and expressions? If you watch films or TV in English, read magazines in English, chat online in English or are interested in English song lyrics then understanding slang can be very useful. You probably won’t see much slang in your English exam though.
A tradução do parágrafo 1, 2 e 3 deverá ser entregue em 19/08 / Online shopping
1. Online shopping allows consumers to shop in the convenience of their own home, and to save travelling time to retail stores and spend their time on other important tasks and hobbies. Researchers indicate convenience as the ‘primary objective’ of online shopping. This is relevant to 72% of online shoppers’ claim that they would rather surf online than go to retail stores to get information about a product. According to a study, 72% of online shoppers chose convenience over privacy. In addition to the ease of finding products online and time saved, consumers can shop without time limitations with 24 hour access as a beneficial characteristic of online shopping.
2. Online shopping benefits both the society as a whole and individuals. The society can save human resources when consumers help themselves by browsing freely online instead of asking for assistance from vendors. Consumers are also freed from the pressure to buy from the vendors and can spend more time to make wise purchase decisions.
3. Consumers desire a variety of products because they look for the right product that will fully satisfy them. There is an infinite variety of products available online and the internet allows consumers to browse through products that are made all around the world without geographical boundaries.
A tradução do parágrafo 4, 5, 6 e 7 deverá ser entregue em 25/08 / 4. With the online tools that enable product comparison, consumers can compare product prices and features to make a better decision with less effort.
5. One of the numerous disadvantages of online shopping is that many shoppers enjoy shopping with others and it is often a good way to make social connections. When shopping independently online, that enjoyment is lost.
6. Privacy is the number one reason that non-online shoppers do not shop online. Almost 95% of Web users have declined to provide personal information to Web sites at one time or another when asked.
7. Because one needs money to buy a computer and to have internet connection, online shopping seems to be limited to people with a reasonable amount of income. Also since it is harder to learn to use computers at an older age, elderly people tend to shop at traditional retail stores. Another reason some people do not shop on line is that they are worried that the products will not be what they have expected by viewing online.