BBC Xtra English - Employment agencies
فبراير 3rd, 2008The BBC Xtra English segment for January 30th discusses employment agencies in the UK, and bogus ones.
Here is the link to the BBC segment, which discusses various English phrases such as “wannabe stars” and “take advantage of”. The BBC page also includes the ability to listen to the clip:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/elt/newsid_7217000/7217474.stm
Here are some words mentioned in the clip:
The word for “employ” is وظف (wathafa) and “employment” is توظيف (tawthif).
مزيف (muzayyaf) - fake
وكالة (wakala) - agency
ممثل (mumaththil) - actor
عارض الأظياء (arada al-azya) - fashion model
رسم (rasm) - fee; رسوم (rusam) - fees [pl]
والدان (walidan) - parents
طفل (tifl) - child; أطفال (atfal) - children [pl]
مجاني (majjani) - free
عقد (aqd) - contract
نقد (naqd) - money
غير (ghayyara) - to change
