Unit 4: Social Organisation

Question 1

Meritocracy

Answer 1

Obtener also por haber trabajado duro

Question 2

Laid off

Answer 2

Te despiden porque la compañía no puede mantener tantos empleados

Question 3

Fire

Answer 3

Te despiden por haber hecho algo mal

Question 4

Collective bargaining

Question 5

The bottom line

Answer 5

El balance final

Question 6

Middleman

Answer 6

Intermediario

Question 7

Race to the bottom

Answer 7

Carrera por encontrar la persona que trabaja más barato en mejores condiciones

Question 8

To use carrots and sticks

Answer 8

Usar zanahorias para engañar a alguien para después pedirle mucho más a palos

Question 9

The power equation

Question 10

Fair trade

Question 11

To strike out on your own

Answer 11

Destacar por tu cuenta

Question 12

You can’t have your cake and eat it

Answer 12

No se puede estar en misa y tocando las campanas

Question 13

Automation of jobs

Answer 13

Automatización de trabajos

Question 14

Streamline

Answer 14

Agilizar/ optimizar

Question 15

Mainstream

Answer 15

Dominante

Question 16

Illiterate

Answer 16

Analfabeta

Question 17

Dropout

Answer 17

Dejar los estudios

Question 18

Compulsory

Question 19

Free movement

Question 20

Potato famine

Question 21

The windrush generation

Question 22

Exodus

Question 23

Pogroms

Question 24

To assimilate

Question 25

To integrate

Question 26

To segregate

Question 27

Melting pot

Question 28

Salad-bowl/ cultural mosaic

Question 29

Intercultural

Question 30

Nomadic/ wandering

Question 31

Dispute/ disagree with

Question 32

Insult/offend

Question 33

Disdain/disapproval

Question 34

Priority / importance

Question 35

Blight / stain

Question 36

Unique / the only one

Question 37

Exposed / opened up

Question 38

Shackle/ hold back

Question 39

Ignorance / unawareness

Question 40

Intensive / rigorous

Question 41

Scornful /contemptuous

Question 42

Alien /strange

Question 43

Prejudice/ discrimination

Question 44

Earn above a threshold

Answer 44

Ganar por encima del salario mínimo

Question 45

A community that promotes communication, understanding and dialogue between different cultures and challenges the self-segregation of certain members of that community

Answer 45

Intercultural / interculturalism