Tugas Softskill - Confusing Words & Articles

Name    : Farah Indah Lestari

NPM      : 22211694

8. Confusing words – 1

Choose the correct word for each sentence.

Note: Answer is the one that underlined.

1. She works for an advertisement/advertisingagency.
2. How will the increase in interest rates affect/effect your sales?
3. My bank manager has agreed to borrow/lendme another $2,000.
4. We’ve had to cancel/postponethe meeting until next Monday.
5. These machines are controlled/inspected at least once a day.
6. My plane was delayed/postponed by an hour due to computer failure.
7. Before coming here, I studied economics/economy at university.
8. I am interested/interesting in their new camera.
9. She applied for a job/work as a personnel officer.
10. Some employees have a long journey/travel to work every day.
11.  The cost of life/livinghas gone up again.
12. Please send precise measurements/measures when ordering.
13. We expect prices to raise/rise by at least five percent.
14. We only exchange goods if you produce a receipt/recipe.
15. I must remember/remindthe boss about that meeting this afternoon.
16. Can you say/tellthe difference between these two products?
17. The company is extremely sensible/sensitiveto any criticism.
18. There’s some more paper in the stationary/stationerycupboard.

9. Banking Services

Fill each blank in the text with the correct word or phrase. Choose from the following list. Use each item once only.

commission                    issued                              statement                           credit rating

debited                           outstanding                     withdraw                             credit transfer

in full                              salaries                            banker’s draft                   financial institutions

interest                          slip                                    cash dispenser                  standing order

Bank offers many services to business and their customers. Here are some of the most common:

Many people now have a card which enables them to 1. withdraw money from a 2. cash dispenser. You feed your card into the machine and key in your PIN (personal identification number) and the amount of money you want. If you have enough in your account, the money requested will be 3.issuedup to a daily limit. Your account is automatically 4. debited for the amount you have drawn out.

Provided you have a sound 5.credit rating,you can get a credit card from a bank and other 6. financial institution. To obtain goods or services, you present your card and sign a special voucher. When it receives the voucher, the credit card company pays the trader (less a 7. commission) and then send you a monthly 8. slip. Depending on the type of card you have, you will either have to pay 9. in full or be able to pay part of what is owed and pay 10. interest in the balance left 11. statement.

 If you need to make fixed payments at regular intervals, e.g. for insurance premiums, you can arrange a 12. credit transfer (sometimes known as a banker’s order) so that the bank will do this for you.

If you have several bills to pay, you can do this by 13. standing order . You write one cheque for the total sum involved, fill in a 14. outstandingfor each bill and hand everything to the bank cashier.

The transfer system is also used by employers to pay 15. salaries directly into employees’ bank accounts.

If you are dealing with a supplier for the first time, a16. banker’s draftmay be used as payment. This is a cheque guaranteed by a bank and therefore it is not likely to ‘bounce’.

47. What’s the job?

accountant                                     clerk                                                 personnel officer

advertising executive                   computer operator                           R&D Manager

assembly person                           draughtsperson                                receptionist

chauffeur                                       motor mechanic                               salesperson

You will be in charge of a team of highly creative individuals delivering new quality products and enhancing our existing range.

1. personnel officer

With particular responsibilities for recruitment and selection. Communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving essential.

2. R&D Manager

With mechanical design experience to work as a member of a team producing designs and drawings for production. Experience of our products range is not essential.

3.draughtperson

Duties include filing, mailing, relief reception and other general office work.

4. receptionist

Needed for night shift. Clean modern factory. Varied work. Good eyesight essential.

5. assembly person

Successful applicant will be articulate and presentable. Remuneration includes retainer and car allowance plus commission structure.

6. salesperson

Reporting directly to Managing Director. You will take over financial control for all aspects of daily operation.

7. accountant

Sober habits, clean driving licence, able to be on call 7 days per week at times. Uniform supplied.

8. chauffeur

Must be experienced in the repair and maintenance of heavy duty vehicles. References must be provided from previous employers.

9. motor mechanic

You are the first person our clients will meet so you need to be friendly, stylish and efficient.

10. clerk

Some experience in the above-mentioned software is essential but training will be given to the successful applicant.

11. computer operator

You will be an essential member of an agency responsible for some of the country’s top accounts. You will be responsible for the administration of local and national promotions.

12. advertising executive

As you were reading the advertisements, did you notice word partnerships such as financial control and communication skills?

Look through the advertisements again and see how many more you can find.

Complete each of the sentences below with a suitable word partnership taken from the advertisements.

1. We’re looking for new products to add to ourselling list.
2. She’s an advertising executive of this team. We can’t do without her.
3. You get more money if you work on the advertising company but it ruins your social life.
4. He had a very good idea to solving problems.
5. I didn’t get the job as a driver as I didn’t have a driving license.
6. My concern are health and safety but I’m also concerned with the general welfare of employees.

 ARTICLES

How Sony Plans to Stretch Playstation 4 Beyond Hardcore Gamers

Around the time of last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, excitement about new gaming consoles from Sony and Microsoft was tempered by skepticism that people will keep paying big bucks for new consoles. Sony has quieted those concerns by selling over 7 million Playstation 4 consoles, claiming a significant lead over the 5 million in sales for Microsoft’s XBox One. Perhaps that gap explains why Microsoft is spending this year’s show still trying to convince hardcore gamers to buy consoles while Sony is branching out.

On Monday, Sony said it would bring Playstation TV to the U.S. this year and start an open testing period of Playstation Now, its cloud gaming service, at the end of July. Both services have been out there in some form already—TV is already available in Japan, and Now is currently in a private testing period—but the company hasn’t worked out the specifics for either yet. The still-developing products offer a look at how Sony thinks about the future of the video-game console business.

Playstation TV is the closest that Sony has come to competing with Apple TV or Amazon’s Fire TV, albeit with a heavier focus on sophisticated gaming. The device resembles other Internet TV boxes in size and price ($99 alone or $139 with a controller, memory card, and a game). It can be used to stream games from a Playstation 4 to another television in the same household. Sony put an emphasis on more family-friendly games that will run on the device, which will also run a number of yet-to-be-announced media applications. Playstation TV will also have older games available for download and will be able to stream games from Playstation Now.

The idea for Now—a service where people pay for digital access for games—has been around for years. In that time Sony has learned just how hard it is to pull off .

A streaming service called OnLive generated a lot of excitement before failing in 2012. Sony’s version is built by Gaikai, an OnLive competitor bought that same year. OnLive was largely felled by technical issues, but the big questions surrounding Sony’s service center on its business model. Sony says it plans to charge between $3 and $20 for access to games, which will be akin to digital rentals.

Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, believes Sony will have a difficult time finding a price that game companies and gamers are both willing to live with. “I think that sets it up for failure, as I think that Sony will gain access to ‘good’ games only if they charge something like $5 per day for a rental, and I don’t see many gamers interested in paying that much,” he said in an e-mail.

With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine.

That’s what they’re calling it at HP Labs: “the Machine.” It’s basically a brand-new type of computer architecture that HP’s engineers say will serve as a replacement for today’s designs, with a new operating system, a different type of memory, and superfast data transfer. The company says it will bring the Machine to market within the next few years or fall on its face trying. “We think we have no choice,” says Martin Fink, the chief technology officer and head of HP Labs, who is expected to unveil HP’s plans at a conference Wednesday.
A decade ago, it wouldn’t seem as outlandish as it now does for a company such as HP, IBM (IBM), or Sun Microsystems to build a new computer architecture from the ground up. The hardware powerhouses, known as systems companies, all made their own chips, networking technology, and custom OS. Then commodity components became more powerful, and better data center software began to make up for deficiencies in the cheaper hardware. Consumer Web companies such as Google, Amazon.com (AMZN), and Yahoo! (YHOO) advanced new data center designs that were quickly adopted by the mainstream, shrinking the market share of the systems companies.
HP Labs, the company’s R&D arm, was once revered throughout Silicon Valley as a steady source of new products that could open up new markets. It’s been far less inspiring in recent years, ginning up a mishmash of mobile software, printing services, and teleconferencing systems that haven’t made it to customers in a meaningful way. Amid budget cuts, a costly, complex new computer system would seem like a stretch.

To Fight Dengue Fever, Brazil Turns to Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

If you’re going to Brazil for the World Cup, don’t forget your insect repellent, and maybe one of these. The country has the highest incidence of dengue fever in the world, with 1.4 million cases reported last year. The disease infects at least 50 million people every year worldwide and kills over a million—the numbers have been rising in recent decades. Severe dengue was first spotted in Southeast Asia in the 1950s; it has now spread throughout Asia and Latin America. Recently it has spread to Europe. There is no cure and no vaccine.

The disease is carried by mosquitoes, mostly the Aedes aegypti. Found in urban areas, Ae. aegypti has proven a particularly difficult mosquito species to control—it has developed a resistance to common insecticides and, because it bites during the day, bed nets are no protection against it. But now Brazilian health officials are running a pilot program using genetically modified mosquitoes to breed the population to death. The mosquitoes are the invention of British biotech company Oxitec, and they’ve had a gene inserted into them that kills them. In the lab, the mosquitoes can be fed a sort of antidote: a supplement that keeps them alive until it’s time to release them. Once they’re released, the clock starts ticking.

Oxitec’s mosquito-suppression solution consists of releasing the modified male mosquitoes into the wild—male mosquitoes don’t bite; it’s the females who do. The Oxitec males mate with female mosquitoes and create progeny that also have the lethal gene. Without the supplement, those progeny die. “By applying the Oxitec Control Programme to an area,” the company’s website says, “the mosquito population in that area can be dramatically reduced or eliminated.”

According to a Public Radio International report, the pilot program is proving enormously popular in the region of northeastern Brazil where it is being run. The trucks driving around releasing the deadbeat mosquito males are emblazoned with “pictures of huge mosquitoes and the word ‘transgenic.’ Health officials hold frequent public meetings and are broadcasting a radio jingle explaining the project.” The biggest factor, however, seems to be that people are desperate for any solution that will help reduce the disease.