1 Listen to a career officer talking about theimportance of a

1 Listen to a career officer talking about the
importance of a persons first job and decide
whether these statements are true (T) or false (F).
1 Everyone likes his/her first job.
2 Money is the main reason you get your first job.
3 Your first job helps you to feel independent.
4 Your first job teaches you responsibility.
5 You dont have to show up to your first job.
6 If you are sick, your supervisor will find
somebody to fill in.
7 If you dont do a good job, you will lose your
position.
8 You will use all your skills in your first job.
9 You will feel more adult because of your first job.
10 Your first job will help you to grow personally.
Лексика и грамматика.
1. Guess the person who repairs the pipes in the
bathroom.
a) a physicianc) a plumber
b) a surgeond) a school teacher
2. Choose the appropriate word.
My relatives were very when I мейд a career.a)
support c) supported
b) supportive d) supportable
3. Choose the correct form of the verb.
They their school certificates by next Friday.
a) will be given
b) will give
c) will have given
d) will have been given
4. Give the definition of the word challenging.
a) dull and tiresome
b) making you feel happy and satisfied
c) irritating and often overwhelming
d) difficult in an interesting or enjoyable way
5. Make the right word combinations.
1) full-time a. person
2) self-employedb. skills
3) engineeringc. job
4) telephone d. profession
6. Open the brackets and fill in the appropriate
form of the words.
1)This job is not well paid but it is quite_______
( satisfaction).
2)Does your friend have any unusual_______
(ambitious)?
7.Fill in the gaps with the correct words.
Career choice
When school is over, young people need to make a
choice of what they want to do further. Our
grandparents often say that life used to be safer
and less_____(1) when they were young. That may
be true, but I think that our generation have more
opportunities than they had. We have a wider career
choice and we can shape our life ______ (2) our
inclinations and abilities. Im sure that there are no
good or bad jobs but there are right and wrong
ones for every particular person. One and the same
job could be very______(3) and enjoyable for one
person and absolutely inappropriate for another
one. Its also natural that different people have
different job_____ (4). Some of us seek a
prestigious job, some look______(5) a well-paid
job, and some people want to work freelance and
dont care about money or______(6) they just
want to be their own bosses and plan their own
days. Distance jobs are gaining popularity for the
same reasons. You see that we can choose not only
the industry we want to devote_____(7) to, but the
format of the job too.
a) complicatedb) comfortablec) communicative d)
competent
a) because ofb) due to c) according to d) in spite
of
a) refreshingb) retrainingc) relaxing d) rewarding
a) preferencesb) benefitsc) opportunities d)
responsibilities
a) at b) after c) for d) forward
a) salary b) paymentc) costs d) prestige
a) ourselvesb) yourselvesc) us d) yours
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1.Write the three most important personal qualities
and the three most important professional qualities
or skills for each job.
a) I think that a businessman should be very
responsible, ______, _____, _____.
b) Besides, it is important for him to be able to
solve problems, ______, _____, ____.