19. Work in pairs. Correct wrong statements.

1. Leaving school is a time of new freedoms and opportunities.

2. Leaving school is a time to make decisions we have made before.

3. School-leavers go to University or to a college just for one reason which is to have chances in the lottery of employment.

4. A growing number of companies provide some part-time study paid for by the employer.

5. It`s really important to realize what you are good at, not so good at, what sort of things you want to do and can do when you look for a job.

6. The data on your personal experience in CV should be presented in reverse order.

7. There are no definite rules for applying by letter.

8. When you ring up about a job you cannot know what you have to say and how to say it.

Speaking

20. Say which job you would prefer and why:

– providing good living, but rather boring and routine;

– which involves working indoors;

– which would be quite intellectual;

– a job involving a foreign language and living abroad;

– providing poor living but interesting;

– which involves working out of doors;

– which would be in some way physical or manual;

– a job involving no language at all; part-time job; full-time job.

21. Read and develop these conversations. Try to give some reasons for this or that decision.

1) – I'm looking for a new job, sir. – What exactly do you want? –I wouldn't mind working in a pub. – Have you done anything like that before? – Well, I once did a bit of serving...	2) –I wonder whether you need any part–timers. – What kind of work were you thinking of? – A hotel job or some sort. – Have you ever done anything similar? – Not so far, no. I'm more or less straight from school but I'll do my best because...
3) – Do you have any vacancies for full–time staff? – What do you mean (have in mind) ? – Something in the building industry. – Have you had any experience? – Actually, I'm a civil engineer by profession and I enjoy my job, but...	4) – I’m looking for some flexitime job. – Are you aware of the fact that flexitime doesn’t mean working just when you want? – Well, to be true – not. What is flexitime then? – You should work within certain limits, say in our company it is from eleven to three and you have to do enough hours each month.

22. Find out about your group-mates' and other people's occupations. Use the following dialogues as models.

Model A: – What do you do for a living? – Actually, I don't work yet. I go to Harvard University and study management. – Why have you chosen management as your future profession? – Because it's a demanding and prestigious job today.	Model В: – What do you do? – Oh, I want to take up computers. – Why do you want to study computer programming? – Well, I lost my job last month and haven't been able to find another one.
Model C: – What's your present job, Jully? – I work as a personnel manager at a big firm but I want to transfer to the International Sales Division. – What for? – Well, I don't really like to work at the cabinet. I just want to travel, to go to Africa or Latin America, for example. – Hmm, that's exciting.	Model D: – What would you like to be, Phil? – Actually I don't know yet. I think I'd rather be a writer. – Are there any special reasons for that? – I see only one: I like to see my name in print.