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3.5.  Write two or three paragraphs about how you spend your day. Include words and expressions from this unit.

3.6. Speech practice.

  • You have to make a decision about two jobs. One is exactly what you wanted all your life – challenging, thought provoking, but it doesn’t pay much. The other pays a very good salary, but it isn’t at all interesting. Which job will you choose? Why?

  • Would you work if you didn’t need money?

IV. «getting on in life» (Phrasal verbs and idioms)

4.1. 9 Listen to two people, Jeremy and Angela, describing how they came to choose their careers. Make notes while you listen. Then work with your partner. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F) and explain why.

  1. Jeremy was made unemployed because the company wanted to save money.

  2. The company went out of business because of the poor economic climate.

  3. Jeremy was offered several jobs in other similar companies but he rejected them.

  4. Jeremy's application to a small magazine was successful.

  5. Angela's father wanted her to be ambitious.

  6. She needed special training to do her job as a secretary.

  7. She had to spend a lot of time doing her job.

  8. She couldn't live on her salary.

  9. A few things about her job depressed her.

  10. She chose law as her career.

4.2. Match the verbs in a with the definitions in b.

1. to cut back (on) (smth)

a. to learn something without difficulty or special study

2. to close (smth) down

b. to make someone feel depressed

3. to turn sb / smth down

c. to close sth (a factory / organization) temporarily or permanently

4. to take someone on

d. to manage to survive and have a satisfactory life

5. to get on

e. to use or require a certain amount of time, effort, or space

6. to pick something up

f. to employ someone

7. to take up an amount of smth

g. to choose something as one's career

8. to get by (on something)

h. to refuse or reject someone / something

9. to get sb down

i. to reduce something, especially to save money

10. to go in for something

j. to succeed, to be successful in one's job

4.3. Fill in the gaps below. The last one is the name of a profession.

Originally I worked ____ (a) a school teacher, but I applied ____ (b) a grant to study medicine at university and was accepted ____(c) the course. I specialized ____ (d) mental disorders, and then started my present job. I believe completely _____ (e) what I am doing, I never take any time _____ (f) work, and I am totally committed _____ (g) my clients. I have to listen very carefully

_____ (h) what they say, and I sometimes explain _____ (i) them what I think the problem is. Sometimes they start to depend _____ (j) me too much. What is my job? Oh, I forgot to tell you. I am a _____ (k).