Supplementary vocabulary:

to complete assignment – виконати завдання to accomplish a task – виконати завдання to set a goal – поставити (перед собою) ціль long-range – довгостроковий time log – журнал обліку використання часу to estimate – давати зразкову оцінку

schedule – розклад, графік strive for – прагнути до чогось prior to – раніше, до того to label – позначати in advance – заздалегідь recreation – дозвілля put off – відкласти deadline – останній термін to save time – заощаджувати час to waste time – витрачати час

2. List and explain time-savers. Using an example, show how planning saves time.

3. List and explain time-wasters. Choose any of them and explain how it robs you of valuable time.

4. If you had two extra hours each day, how would you use them? List in priority order what you would do with those extra two hours. Begin with: If I had two extra hours each day, I would (do)……(what?)

5. A. Look at the timeline. Write sentences describing what John Smith will have done or won’t have done by the year 2010 according to his plan:

Enter buy get graduate move to start his buy

College a car married from college New York own business a house

___|______|______|________|___,_______|__________|_______|__

Now 2010 Future

B. Think of your future and draw a timeline for yourself. What will you have done or won’t have done by the year 2020 according to your plan? What kind of job would you like to have:

a) immediately after graduation?

b) in 2-3 years?

c) in 10 years?

d) before you retire?

TEXT 4 C

1. Skim the text and explain why the key skills required by employers are so important:

GAIN A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE

Degrees are no longer enough — employers are looking for skills in the workplace

Today, one in three young people enters higher education and a degree is fast becoming the minimum qualification for any white-collar job. This is not to suggest that the value of a degree has diminished. We now live in a far more complex world and most jobs today require a much higher level of intellectual skills than ever before. Graduates not only continue to enjoy higher pay and lower unemployment than non-graduates, but most employers will tell you that there is still a shortage of good graduates.

So what do employers look for in graduate recruits? Cer­tainly, they want intellectual skills acquired in taking a de­gree. These include the ability to collect and analyze informa­tion, to acquire special knowledge, to solve problems, and to communicate dearly. In the past this was enough. When graduates were a small elite, employers could afford to invest in extended training programmes lasting between one and two years.

Most graduate recruits today are expected to make an immediate contribution to the organization. This means that they need more than their academic qualifications. Employers look for a range of ge­neric vocational skills which are useful in almost all types of work; they are usually known as "key skills".

Six key skills are approved by the Qualifications and Cur­riculum Authority (QCA) for incorporation into many vo­cational education and training programmes. These key skills are communication, using and presenting numerical data, information technology, team-working, improving your own learning and performance, and problem solving. Graduate employers certainly hope to find all of these, but they also look for some additional qualities such as adaptability and commercial awareness. Above all, they want recruits to have already had some practical experience of applying them.

Certainly, all students should have some "quality work experience" before they complete their full-time education. However, not enough employers offer suitable vacancies to provide this. Ideally, you would get vacation or part-time work relevant to your area of study so that you could start to apply theory to the world of work. But many students end up serving in retail shops, bars and fast-food outlets, or waiting in restau­rants. The money is certainly useful, but does menial work provide opportunities for useful learning and help your career prospects? It does.

Even in the most menial jobs you can analyze everything you see and do and what your colleagues at all levels arc do­ing. You can try and work out why things are organized in the way they are and why people act in the way they do. What do you find motivates the customers of your business – and annoys them? Are there health and safety implica­tions in the way things are done? The job can be used as a learning opportunity so you can tell future recruiters what skills and understanding you have gained.

Few people will find a lifetime employer. They will move between employers to gain greater expertise and experience. Many will be offered short-term contracts, others will be of­fered work as consultants on a self-employed basis. Gradu­ates face more flexible though less certain futures. In going to university it is important to recognize that the future will be very different from the past, that you must learn to adapt and that you can and should learn from every experience of student life.

Supplementary vocabulary:
white-collar – службовець diminish – зменшувати recruit – новачок generic – спільний numerical – цифровий	awareness – знання, поінформованість relevant – що має відношення menial work – чорна робота expertise – компетентність