France Travail Promotes Food Industry Jobs in Ploërmel
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France Travail is a public job service in France. It helps people find work.
In Ploërmel, France Travail wants to change ideas about the food industry. Many people have wrong ideas about these jobs.
This week is special. It is called the Food Industry Week. It runs from 2 to 6 November.
During this week, people can learn about food jobs. There are many jobs in this area.
France Travail says these jobs are good. They want more people to try them.
The food industry makes and sells food. It needs many different workers.
Some people think food jobs are not nice. France Travail wants to show this is not true.
They want people to see the real jobs. They want to break old stereotypes.
This happens in Ploërmel, a town in France. It is part of a bigger plan across the country.
Vocabulary15 words
- food industry
- all the companies that make and sell food
- Food Industry Week
- a special week to show people food jobs
- stereotypes
- wrong ideas that many people believe
- job service
- a place that helps people find work
- public
- run by the government, for everyone
- France Travail
- the French government office that helps with jobs
- Ploërmel
- a small town in France
- perceptions
- how people think about something
- worker
- a person who does a job
- event
- something that happens, often planned
- career
- a job someone does for a long time
- industry
- a group of businesses that make similar things
- positions
- jobs that are open for people to take
- promote
- to tell people good things about something
- France
- a country in Europe
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Answer key
1. Change wrong ideas about food jobs 2. 2 to 6 November 3. False
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France Travail is a _____ job service in France. It helps people find _____.
In Ploërmel, France Travail wants to change _____ about the food industry.
This week is special. It is called the Food Industry _____. It runs from 2 to 6 _____.
During this week, people can _____ about food jobs.
France Travail says these jobs are _____. They want more people to try them.
Some people think food jobs are not nice. France Travail wants to show this is not _____.
They want to break old _____.
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