Getting a Job

You can find information about jobs at a number of different places.

At school. During their last years at school, students get advice about further study and finding jobs. All secondary schools have a careers teacher. It’s his/her job to provide students with information about study and work. Careers teachers will arrange visits to factories, offices, colleges, etc. they invite people from local organisations to come to the school to talk to the students. They also help students to apply for jobs.

A lot of schools now organise ‘work experience’ for students in the last two compulsory years of school (aged 14-16). The students go out to work for a week. They work in all kinds of places – factories, shops, offices, hotels. Afterwards they have to write about their experience and what it has taught them. (Most students report that school isn’t so bad after all!)

Outside school. For people who have already left school, there are a number of places where you can find out about jobs. Local newspapers carry advertisements for jobs, and there is a Job Centre in every large town. Employers advertise jobs here. If you are unemployed, you can go to the Job Centre to look for a job.

More and more young people now continue their studies as long as possible. They go on from school to university or a college to get higher qualifications. There are also several training schemes, where young people can learn the skills to help them get a better job.

6. Answer the following questions briefly.

1. How do people find information about jobs in your country?

2. What do you think about the work of the careers teachers? Do schools in you country have them?

7. Make up a plan of the text in the form of the questions of different types (not less than 10 questions).

V ВАРІАНТ

1. Rewrite the sentences in the Passive. Translate the following sentences into Russian.

1. They haven’t invited Fred to the party yet.

2. Ellie will take the children to school.

3. Did they show the fire on the news?

4. We can’t change it.

5. A lot of children use computers nowadays.

6. The police are questioning the suspects.

2. Write down the following sentences. Underline the non-finite form of the verb. Define the non-finite form of the verb. Translate the sentences.

1. They had never heard him speak with such urgency, his eyes glowing like amber coals in the fading light.

2. We reached the station with only a minute or two to spare.

3. On the second of these days Granacci burst into the studio, his usually placid eyes blinking hard.

4. His statement turned out to be false.

5. Having knocked on the door, she firmly entered Grandpa’s room.

3. Turn the sentences from direct into reported speech. Translate them into Ukrainian.

1. He said to them, "Don't stay out late tonight."

2. "Please stay a little longer," Kate said to her sister.

3. Adam said, "I have never ridden a horse before."

4. Greg said, "I want to have a party on my birthday."

5. "What have you been doing?" I asked her.

4. Define the type of conditional (1, 2, 3). Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.

1. She could get fifty dollars for that jewellery if she went to a pawnbroker.

2. She will do it if she loves me.

3. Mr. Minner would have turned back if he had not been seen and hailed.

5. Read and translate the following text.