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4.works in an office and deals with correspondence, filing, etc.

5.cooks in a hotel or a restaurant.

6.repairs household machinery

7.telephones people and try to sell them things

8.cuts, washes and arranges people’s hair

9.searches for a job in newspaper ads

an architect	a service engineer	a secretary	a builder		a chef
a job-hunter a telesales person		a hairdresser		an au pair

Ex. 12*. Write descriptions for the jobs in the box.

Model: a pianist

A person who plays the piano is a pianist.

Table 4

a designer	a manager
an artist	a programmer
an economist	an engineer
a house-wife	a banker
a waitress	a civil servant
a social secretary	a lawyer
a cook	an official
a travel agent	a shop assistant

Ex. 13*. Read the text and explain the meaning of highlighted words.

How much is the average British housewife worth? The answer is £370 a week. An insurance company has carried a survey to find out the value of a housewife’s work. It seems that she is on call for 92 hours in a seven-day week, working as a shopper, waitress, nurse, driver, cook, cleaner and child-minder. Taking employment agencies’ standard fees for these jobs, the insurance company has calculated that a housewife work worth £19,753 a year – more than the salary of a bishop, a divisional fire service chief or a second division footballer.

Ex. 14*. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

application run career company started employee living notice pay salary staff

1.He wanted to have a _______________ in the fashion design, but he failed the entrance exam.

2.I don’t want to be an ______________ any more. I want to work for myself.

3.Most of the _________________ in the restaurant are unhappy with their pay.

4.She has handed in her ___________________ and she is leaving in four weeks.

5.The job is really interesting but the _________________ salary is terrible.

6.What does he do for a _________________? He’s a secret agent.

7.What sort of ______________ do you work for?

8.When we receive your ______________, we will contact you for an interview.

9.I ___________ this job two years ago at the beginning of the summer holiday as I needed the money to _______ for my studies.

10.Managing directors who _______ large corporations earn far too much money.

Ex. 15. Fill in the following table using the words from the text in the Ex. 16 then compete the sentences with the correct words from the Table 5.

Table 5

1	to provide	needed jobs
2	to meet needs	distribution
3	to support	contract work
4	to accept	maintenance
5	to inspire	Curriculum Vitae
6	to spend	contribution
7	to start up	salary
8	to send	meeting
9	to fill	laboring hours
10	to take on	company

1.In my job I oversee the ____________ of machinery and vehicles.

2.In my job I check modern computer systems to ____________ safety standards.

3.Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s _____________ to the development of the modern high-tech revolution was great.

4.During the afternoon I often have __________________ with clients.

5.They come in and fill _________ and provide some of the tax base.

6.How we ________our laboring hours has become a more important window into our souls.

7.The Internet also allows the job-seekers to send their _______ to a number of different places more quickly.

8.This job offers excellent career prospects.

Ex. 16*. Complete the story using the verbs in the box.

makes	design	employs	eat	live	works	do	is
produces	travel	presents	pays	uses	speak	play	are

Lorella Braglia …….. (1) the founder of Dielle, and also the main designer. Her husband, Danilo, …….. (2) for company as Marketing Director. Lorella …… (3) two collection every year and ……. (4) at fashion shows in London, Paris, and

New York. She and her husband ……. (5) English fluently. Dielle ……. (6) everything in Italy, and ……. (7) very modern equipment in its workshops. The company …….. (8) the services of seventy workshops in and around Reggio Emilia, North of Italy between Milan and Bologna. It

…….. (9) 100,000 units per year. Lorella and her husband …….. (10) in a house in the centre of Reggio Emilia, not far from the office. They …….. (11) not often there, because they both ……. (12) a lot.

How do they relax? ‘I ……. (13) yoga and Danilo ……. (14) golf, says Lorella. At the weekends they ……. (15) golf together and ……. (16) local restaurants with their children.

Ex. 17. Read the topic and say if it is interesting for you. Give the Russian equivalents to the underlined words.

According to new data released by the US Census Bureau, immigration is helping to keep big cities in the US vibrant and alive. As long-term residents are moving out of the cities, immigrants are moving in. New York would be certainly declining in population. The same is with Los Angeles. So they really are propping up the population in a lot of big cities. In some places where they are having real substantial population loss, immigrants are playing a vital role.

They are coming in and			filling				needed jobs and providing some of
the tax base that is needed to help							the economy. New York and its
suburbs	absorbed	one	million		Immigration		immigrants	from 2000 to 2008, the
census	data shows. Without them				to America		the region	would	have	shrunk by
nearly 600,000 people. Immigration							to Los Angeles prevented an expected
decline	of 200,000.	The	greater				Boston	area	took	153,000

immigrants, saving it from negative population growth. For many native-born Americans, the issue of immigration tangled up with frustration at the country’s failure to seal off its borders. About a third of the 36 million immigrants to the US are believed to be in the country illegally. While the business community admits the economy could not work without the willingness of undocumented workers to take on low-paid jobs, the workers have been the source of resentment and are accused of becoming a burden on school and health service.

(From www.macmillanenglishcampus.com)

Reading

Ex. 18. Read the texts, then choose the best answer according to it. Try to give the essence of the texts using the questions as a plan.

We are talking, writing, and thinking about work like never before. Perhaps, because our work simply occupies a more important place in our life than it did. Men and women (for the first time in centuries) are placing work closer to the centre of their lives.

Work has become a more important element of our personal identity: we have greater control and choice over the shape of our working lives. Women have entered and transformed the workplace.

More of us want or need the financial independence that a wage offers. But when work becomes more than simply a passport to pay a cheque, when it opens the door to friends, purpose, satisfaction and a place in the world, its absence is more keenly felt.

We find a job we love and so work long hours at it, and then feel we cannot get our

“work/life” balance right. But the new status of work has come with price: fewer people are able to feel secure. Salaries go up but few of us feel richer. As the geographical roots have weakened, religious beliefs have diminished, and the extended family has dispersed, how we spend our laboring hours has become a more important window into our souls. If work means not just income but identity, then the choice of jobs becomes critical.

1.Why do we think our work is so important for us?

a)because we are talking, writing, and thinking about work like never before,

b)because it gives us financial independence,

c)because our work simply occupies a more important place in our life than it did,

d)because it is the most significant element of modern personal identity as other statuses are becoming less important.

2.Why do we fail to balance the work with the life?

a)now we need to work long hours at it,

b)it opens the door to friends, purpose, satisfaction and a place in the world,

c)women have entered and transformed the workplace,

d)salaries we get now are going up.

3.Why does the choice of jobs become so critical?

a)the geographical roots have weakened, religious beliefs have diminished, and the extended family has dispersed,

b)we have greater control and choice over the shape of our working lives,

c)to work properly we must love our job,

d)work is the most important window to our souls.

Ex. 19. Read the article and explain the highlighted words with the help of a dictionary. Comment the underlined words.

Jobs. com

More and more people today are turning to the Internet to meet their employment needs. According to one recent survey, more than one million UK residents search

for jobs through the Internet every month. In response to this demand, thousands of new sites, offering to match job hunters to suitable advertisements, have been launched. For the seeker, these sites are convenient.

There is no more hunting through a list of thousand of advertisement to find the one they are looking for. They can simply get rid of unsuitable advertisement by being specific in their search details. If they do not wish to accept a salary of less than £30,000, or if they do not wish to work outside a certain area, for example, then they can type in this information at the

start of their search in order to save themselves the trouble of reading about jobs that are of no interest to them. The Internet also allows the job-seekers to send their CVs to a number of different places more quickly. They can also get up-to- the-minute information about which jobs are still available. So, next time you are on the lookout for that exciting new opportunity; get online and get ahead.

(From Upstream – Intermediate)

Ex. 20. Read the text and fill in the chart about the people you have read.

In the midst of depression, two sons of Stanford University started a company in a Polo Alto garage. How did Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard end up the high-tech revolution? The tale of the garage that launched a high-tech revolution is now official legend, a silicon cliché. Sure, college friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

started in that Palo Alto garage 60 years ago. They had $553 in start-up capital, banked from sources like Lucile Packard’s job as secretary to the Stanford register. Working in one-car shed in a valley of fruit orchards, they were green engineers taking on

contract work, stuff like bowling alley food-fault indicators and harmonica tuners. They ended up with their names indelibly linked to digital age touchstones such as the pocket calculator and the desktop laser printer. They ended up as famed builders of a $43 billion global company that has taken its place in the Dow Jones index as a bellwether of the modern economy. But if that genesis story has inspired generation of engineerentrepreneurs, from Apple to Yahoo, it does not explain Hewlett and Packard‘s greatness.

Far from being lone-wolf inventors, their contribution was ultimately social and as much organizational as technological.

Table 6

	Ambitions	Reasons	What is he going
			to do

Communication Skills

Ex. 21. Try to play the game. One person thinks a job and the other person has to guess what it is. Answer the questions below about this job with only

‘yes’ or ‘no’.

a)Do you work indoors?

b)Do you use your hands in this job?

c)Is it a well-paid job?

d)Do you need any qualification for this job?

e)What hours do you work? Do you work normal office hours?

f)Do you have to work in the evening?

g)Do you have to wear uniform?

h)Is it a hot and smelly job?

i)Is it a job for a man or woman?

j)Do you have to be strong?

k)Do you need special tools?

l)Is it an artistic job?

Ex. 22. Speak to the situations given.

A)Cliff Turner has his own business and it is doing well. He has already decided to expand. Look at his business plan and say what he is going to do.

Model: He is going to employ more staff.

Table 9

employ more staff

advertise in newspaper and magazines

equip the office with new computers

increase production

move to bigger premises

open an office abroad

B)This is Cliff Turner’s schedule. Say what his arrangements are for the next few days.

Model: He is flying to New York on Wednesday.

Table 10

				MARCH
	Wednesday 12th			fly to New York
	Thursday 13th			give an interview to The Financial Times
	Friday 14th			have lunch with sales representative
	Saturday 15th			have a meeting with Japanese partners
	Sunday 16th			play tennis with Carol

Ex. 23. Make predictions for the future. Tell other people about your predictions. Do they agree? Could they explain why?

Model: A: There will be more people in the world.

B:I think so.

C:I’m afraid, I don’t think so.

People will have more leisure time.

Traffic in major cities will improve.

Public telephone will absolutely disappear.

People will live and work in space.

Men and women will understand each other better.

Cash won’t be use any more.

There will be a word stock market.

There will be cities of 100 million people.

It will be possible for human beings to live to150.

Ex. 24. Choose from the box and talk about what can motivates you to succeed. Use the model, if you wish.

Model: I think the story of Robison Crusoe will inspire everybody to survive in any situation. I think only good experience can motivate me to do something difficult.

a famous person a friend an inspiration book competition failure praise a person in history an inspirational family member stories from mass media Internet Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

Ex. 25. What do you say in the following situations?

Table 8

Promise action	Can you leave it with me? I’ll look into it and help.
	……………………………………………………….

Apologize and explain	Really? I see. I’m very sorry. This has never happened before.
	…………………………………………………………………
Asking for help
Checking understanding
Asking the way	Could you tell us the way, please?
	………………………………………………………………….
Keeping the friendly
atmosphere
Giving advice
Refuse politely

Ex. 26*. Read the dialogue and comment the modals. Make your own dialogue similar to the one below.

Boss: Have you typed those letters yet?

Secretary: No, I haven’t finished. Must I type them all this morning? Boss: Yes, you have to, I’m afraid.

Secretary: Very well, sir. Shall I also photocopy them?

Boss: No, you needn’t. Eric can do that. Just ask them. Secretary: OK, I’ll do that. Oh, sir. You’ve got an appointment with Mr. Lee at 6 o’clock. It’s almost 5.30. You’ll be late.

Boss: Oh, dear. I forgot. I’ll go out.

Secretary: Do you want me to call your wife and tell her that you’ll be late?

Boss: No, I’ll do that myself. I’ll call her.

Ex. 27. List the conditions below in order of importance and discuss your choice.

A comfortable office or workplace

Career opportunities

Good colleagues

Flexitime

Good pay

Generous holiday

Stimulating work

Training courses

Ex. 28. In what ways the people in the photos overcome problems to succeed? Think of someone you know or a famous person who has had to overcome problems to be a success. Tell the class.

Ex. 29*. Read the leaflet and fill in the blanks using the modals in the box below.

BILL GATES

Interface

		New	Business Project: What should you do?
		Here is some advice from Bill Gates about managing projects
		Planning
			You _______________ choose projects very carefully. Be
		sure you have the skills and resources for the project.
			You _______________ also plan your schedule carefully.
		You _______________ give too little or too much too time
		compete the project.
		In progress
		You _______________ make sure that project teams are
working together.
	Everyone _______________ know what other teams are doing.
	If there are problems, you _______________ tell everyone on the project teams about the
	problems.
	You _______________ have meetings with all groups from different departments.
	Meetings _______________ always _______________ be in person. You can use e-mail
	to keep everyone informed regularly.
		(Adapted from Global Links, Source New York Times)
should		shouldn’t	have to	don’t have to	need to

Ex. 30. Imagine that you had to give someone advice. Tick the factors you should think about before giving the advice.

1.Interests of people concerned

2.Age of people concerned

3.Your own interests

4.Aims of people concerned

Ex. 31. Discuss the following questions.

1.What makes someone a good friend?

2.Which people on each other the most?

3.Some people prefer to spend socializing with colleges or friends, rather than their family. How about you?

4.What advantages and disadvantages of working closely with the same person for a long time?

5.Do you agree that older generations have more to teach young people than the other way round?

________________________________________________________________

1.A university education does not guarantee professional success.

2.Job satisfaction is more important than making a lot of money.

3.The ideal job is one where you can be creative.

4.The ideal job is one where you constantly develop as a person.

5.It is important to be your own boss.

6.It is important to feel that you are achieving success in your job.

7.Comfortable working conditions are more important than anything else.

________________________________________________________________

1.Have you ever lived or worked abroad? Do you know anyone who lives or worked abroad?

2.Which countries would you like and not like to go and work?

3.What problems do you think people who work abroad have?

4.Do you think working abroad is essential for a successful career? Why/Why not?

Ex. 32*. Read the text and develop the project about how to find the job abroad.

Cultural chameleons

Today many professionals and graduates are looking opportunity to work in a foreign country. Spending time abroad is now seen as essential in order to climb the career ladder. Today record numbers of workers are prepared to migrate and it is now not enough to speak a foreign language. It is something that employers certainly expect.

The EU has introduced the EU CV to standardize application procedure throughout Europe. For example, in the UK it is

customary to add hobbies and interests at the bottom at the page. In Italy that information is not necessarily. You may also check whether a photo is necessary or an English language CV should be written in American or British English. A more important point to think about is whether or not employers will recognize your degree subjects especially when you have studied a subject such as Wireless

Network Systems which doesn’t translate into another language or culture.

When it comes to interview, make sure you know about work culture. You should also show the respect to the culture of the country you wish to work in. For example, the French use short sentences and hate silence, while Scandinavians have deep respect for pauses. Adapting a similar style of dress to your co-workers, eating the kind of food they eat, enjoying similar activities – these things help win trust and respect. Think of yourself as a cultural chameleon, mirror the kind of messages

you get about communication and appearance. People like people who remind them of themselves, and nobody likes what they don’t understand.

(Adapted from The Business – Pre-Intermediate)