The job of your dream Choosing a profession

The job of your dream. Choosing a profession

Phonetic Exercise • • • • to apply for a job good job conditions a salary work experience to hire somebody an application an employer to go through a job interview to promote an employment agency a strength a weakness permanent to be responsible for professional qualities resume highly-paid job prestigious generous hard-working determined confident creative serious tolerant honest well-educated traits of character personal and follow in one’s footsteps

An Interview at the school.

Professions tailor doctor pilot driver banker designer hairdresser travel agent journalist dentist translator manager singer computer operator computer programmer nurse teacher vet businessman fireman policeman welder postman guard lawyer bookkeeper writer kindergartener

JOB AND PROFESSION Job — work that you do regularly to earn money Words often used with job: • apply for a job, get a job, find a job, offer someone a job, take a job, do a job, be in a take on have • job, be out of job, leave your job, lose your • job, job interview, temporary / permanent a job look for • job, part-time / full-time job, top job get Profession — a job that you need special skills and qualifications to do Words often used with profession: • the teaching / engineering profession, in a profession, go into / enter / join a profession offer do find

The reasons of choosing professions: What is important in choosing a profession? • Specialists say that the most popular reason of choosing this or that jobs are: prestigiousness, high salary, interesting work, good working conditions, ability of training. The last place takes the advice of parents or friends.

Money Job satisfaction Further training reasons Promotion prospects Good job conditions Travelling abroad

Your personal qualities • • • • ambitious attentive calm careful confident creative fair flexible friendly handy helpful hard-working independent • • • • intelligent logical organized polite patient punctual practical reliable risky responsible sociable serious tolerant

Your skills and abilities • • computer skills organizational skills dedication Initiative physical strength technical thinking good memory • • • a sharp mind good eye memory teamwork skills leadership ability to work under pressure • a good telephone manner • ability to work to tight deadlines

What are your plans for the near future? What do you want to be? Why have you chosen this kind of profession? What do you like to do? What qualities are required for this profession?

1 a. to care of animals. 1 b. to work with machines. 2 a. to care of sick people 2 b. to make schemes, programs. 3 a. to watch quality of figures 3 b. to watch the plants 4 a. to process materials (a tree, a fabric, plastic) 4 b. to sell or advertise goods 5 a. to discuss scientific articles or books 5 b. to discuss books, plays or concerts 6 a to grow farm animals 6 b. to train somebody in sport or labor skills 7 a. to copy pictures 7 b. to grow plants 8 a. to look for and explain an information 8 b. to prepare concerts plays 9 a. to repair clothes, houses 9 b. to correct mistakes in texts and pictures 10 a. to treat animals 10 b. to do counts 11 a. to make new kinds of plants Questionnaire

11 b. to design new kinds of things 12 a. to solve difficult situations 12 b. to check up, to make in order tables and schemes 13 a. to watch the work clubs 13 b. to watch microbes 14 a. to watch the work of medical machines 14 b. to treat people 15 a. to give a detailed description of experiments 15 b. to describe different events 16 a. to do medical tests in a hospital 16 b. to talk to sick people 17 a. to paint walls or things 17 b. to build houses or machines 18 a. to organize trips and excursions 18 b. to take part in plays or concerts 19 a. to make a thing according to the working drawing 19 b. to make working drawings 20 a. to treat plants or trees

Mannature Mantechnologie man Mansymbols Manobject of art 1 a 1 b 2 a 2 b 3 a 3 b 4 a 4 b 5 a 5 b 6 a 7 b 6 b 9 b 7 a 10 a 9 a 8 a 10 b 8 b 11 a 11 b 12 a 12 b 13 a 13 b 14 a 14 b 15 a 15 b 16 a 17 b 16 b 19 b 17 a 20 a 19 a 18 a 20 b 18 b

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The job Interview.

Essay Use the following plan: • Introduction (state the problem). • Arguments "for". • Arguments "against". • Conclusion. Use: ü be equal, ü understand better, ü be good at doing something, ü a prestigious job, ü be aggressive / passive, ü be dominant / subordinate, ü be emotional / rational, ü have stereotypes in mind, ü continue from the past. . .