- •С истема открытого образования
- •Improve your speaking skills in english Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Часть 2
- •Unit III jobs and careers
- •What Are We Working for?
- •Vocabulary Focus
- •A) What do you do?
- •B) Word combinations with ‘work’
- •C) Types of job and types of work
- •D) Words used in front of ‘job’ and ‘work’
- •1) Fee 2) pay 3) salary 4) wage
- •Discussion Focus
- •Very important important not important not relevant
- •Which of the features exist in your present job (or the job you’re
- •Very important important not important not relevant
- •Work in bermuda
- •Frank Mare
- •Intelligence and ability; emotional stability; conscientiousness.
- •Practicing Vocabulary
- •A) Choosing the Right Career
- •B) Leaving a Job
- •Choosing a Job
- •A) Marketing Interview
- •B) My First Job
- •Read and Discuss Text 1
- •Reading
- •How Much is Job Worth?
- •Post-Reading
- •Reading
- •Follow the Leader
- •Post-Reading
- •C Comment on the meaning of the two phrases:
- •Reading
- •Life at the Bottom: Hard-Up, Tired but Content
- •Post-Reading
- •Interviews may be carried out in one-to-one situation; or a group of interviewers may interview a single candidate; or a single interviewer may interview a group of candidates.
- •Reading Read through the text “Your First Job Interview” and do the exercises that follow. Your First Job Interview
- •Post-Reading a Mark these sentences as t (true) or f (false) according to the
- •Information in the text.
- •B On the left are the words and phrases from the text. Study their meanings in the context and match them with their equivalents on the right.
- •Reading
- •How to Select the Best Candidates – and Avoid the Worst
- •Post-Reading a Explain the following in alternative English words:
- •Reading
- •Post-Reading
- •Solicitor or Barrister?
- •Attorney at Law
- •Unit IV healthy lifestyles Starting-Up
- •Vocabulary Focus
- •5 What doctor will you go to?
- •What doctor will you go to if you
- •Discussion Focus
- •You’ve got your own defence system here’s how to make it work
- •Important materials in your food
- •Vegetarians
- •Ten tips on how to lose weight
- •Do you consider selling your tv to be an effective way of keeping fit?
- •Practising Vocabulary
- •A Visit to the Doctor’s
- •The Benefits of Exercise
- •The Power of the Mind
- •Hypochondriacs
- •Snoring
- •Alternative Therapy
- •Anorexia
- •A Disastrous Holiday
- •Vegetables
- •The Brain
- •Choose Your Sport Carefully
- •Can We Live Longer?
- •The Dangers of the Sun
- •Exam Worries
- •Read and Discuss
- •Reading
- •Self-care has come of age – again!
- •Post-Reading
- •Medicine’s unsolved mysteries
- •Reading
- •Eat Greek and Live Longer
- •Post-Reading
- •Healthier milk
- •Reading
- •Effect of music on the human system
- •Post-Reading
- •Reading
- •Exam fitness
- •Exercise
- •Body Clocks and Sleep
- •Some Points to Remember:
- •Final Points
- •Post-Reading
- •Reading
- •Grocery list
- •Post-Reading
- •Stress and Stress Management
- •Shift Down a Gear to Find a Sweeter Lifestyle
- •References
- •Contents
- •Improve Your Speaking Skills in English
- •Часть 2
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Post-Reading a Explain the following in alternative English words:
1) hypochondriacs whose absentee record becomes astonishing
2) the person who does not come up to the expectation
3) a high-flyer
4) a steady performer
5) the employee with a fine future behind them
6) intelligence levels decline modestly
7) a clear message
8) pretty dramatic effects
9) be groomed for a job
10) carefully repackaged
B Answer these questions:
1) What types of failures do companies experience? 2) What emotional states can be referred to as personal crises? How can they affect the way we cope with things? 3) What results has the over 50-year survey brought about? 4) What trouble may a company get into having chosen the wrong candidate? 5) What advice does the article give to managers?
C The best candidates as some employers suggest should be like this:
astute bright calm easy-going hard-working neurotic
honest sharp cooperative inventive enthusiastic
trustworthy efficient reliable cheerful outgoing
thoughtful punctual argumentative moody pushy
self-confident (assured) sensitive intelligent thrifty
Which of these characteristics are
essential for a best candidate;
good but not indispensable;
totally unsuitable (undesirable) for good performance of a prospective employee?
Explain your choice.
Text 6
Pre-Reading
1) What does the length of working hours may depend on?
2) Can long working hours be justified in any way?
3) How long do you think working hours should be from the viewpoint of common sense?
Reading
Read the two texts below and do the exercises that follow.
A The British are notorious for working the longest hours in Europe. For many of us, long hours are a form of addiction. For some, it’s about proving your dedication. For others, it is just part of the culture. But Britain’s long hours’ culture is not necessarily achieving a great deal; British companies are 25% less productive than their continental counterparts.
When the BBC’s Money programme asked office staff at one large company to try to keep their set hours for a week (some of them work up to 60 hours a week), they were unwilling to try. But management was keen to reduce stress by improving the balance between employees’ home and work life, and thought the experiment might be a good way to get everyone thinking about their working hours and how they might be able to reduce them.
As the week progressed, staff found it hard to cope with the pressure of leaving work undone. They felt they were letting people down and worried about the effect on the business. By the middle of the week, the pressure was bringing some of them to breaking point. With the help of work/life specialist Lynne Copp, the stressed workers were encouraged to try delegation, reorganising priorities and making meetings more focused. Did the company suffer? Despite some catching up the following week, the running of the company as a whole did not seem to be greatly affected. In fact it had caused a reappraisal of the whole attitude to staying late.
B Having lived and worked in the Netherlands for nearly five years, I know what a wonderfully comfortable place it is. There is full employment and everyone goes home at 5:30 pm. But despite this enviable life style, an average of 90,000 Dutch employees fail to turn up for work each year on the grounds of suffering ‘overspannen’ (work-related stress) – a condition which allows them to take a year off on full pay and then, if they are not cured, to enter into the benefits system for the rest of their lives.
Worried about an upcoming merger? Teased or ignored by your colleagues? Don’t like your desk? Faced with a long commute? Overworked? Underworked? Feel like a break? Simply get a doctor to agree that you are under a little stress, and a year off work on full pay can be yours.
So obsessed are the Dutch with the idea of stress that there is even a ministry for its study and regulation. As far as it is concerned, stress is never caused by weakness or incompetence: instead, it is a fact of modem life, caused by a working environment that is less than perfect. It distributes leaflets concerning the management of stress within the workplace, encourages companies to set up “internal steering groups to define structures for stress management” and says that the best solution is “listening and talking.” The condition is, essentially no different from the ‘stress’ imagined by rich New Yorkers, except that in the Netherlands it is employers and taxpayers who pick up the bill.