- •Устройство на работу
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Name:
- •4. What are these people?
- •5. Name as many professions as you can.
- •6. Name some professions you consider to be interesting. Which qualities make a good manager, etc.?
- •7. The Chamber of Commerce is an organisation for business people. Listen to six new members. Number the business cards in the order people speak.
- •8. Helen Marsden and Robin Seaton talk about their jobs. Before you listen, decide what their duties are. Then listen and check your answers.
- •9. Listen again and complete the notes below.
- •Grammar Review
- •10. Look at the business cards again. Who is each question for?
- •Meet Thomas Kingsley
- •Grammar Review
- •21. A) Read the text. Whose opinion do you share?
- •Is it possible to be successful in an unsuccessful company?
- •22. Read the text. Which way of looking for a job do you usually use? Why? So you are looking for a new position...
- •23. Work in pairs. How many different ways can a company recruit applicants to fill a job vacancy?
- •24. Read the magazine article about recruiting staff. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each recruitment method? The right person for the right job
- •25. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •Grammar Review
- •26. Look at the graphs a-h below. They show how a company has recruited its staff over a three-year period.
- •27. How would you recruit people for his/her own job?
- •28. Read the text and complete the table.
- •29. Read the advertisement below. Can you prove that this ad has been published in the uk? What would be its attractions – what might be its drawbacks?
- •30. Read the two advertisements below and answer the questions.
- •31. Look at the job advertisement below. Listen to a conversation in which Fiona Scott is telling a friend about the advertisement and complete the missing information.
- •32. How would you advertise the following vacancies?
- •33. Do the questionnaire as a discussion activity.
- •34. Read the text to check your answers in the exercise above.
- •35. Study the following resumes carefully to see how information is presented.
- •36. Define the type of the following resumes.
- •37. Use the information below to arrange Paul Goodman’s resume.
- •38. Where do you think each of the following headings should be placed?
- •39. Draft your resume.
- •41. Fill out the application form.
- •42. Sum up what the text says about differences between a resume and a cover letter. How Letters of Application Differ From Resumes
- •44. Read the text and the letters of application. Match the paragraphs of the letters with the information of the text. Format of a letter of application
- •45. Below you will find details from a letter of application. Look at the outline of the letter on the left and indicate where the information should go.
- •46. Read the letter and answer the questions.
- •47. Almudena Ribera is a secretary in Madrid. She is looking for work in Britain. Read the advertisement and answer the questions.
- •49. Match the phrases below with Almudena's notes.
- •50. You see the following advertisement in a national newspaper. Write a plan of your application letter in reply to it.
- •51. Imagine you want to apply for the job … Draft an application letter, following these guidelines:
- •Dressing for success
- •Interviewing someone for a job
- •55. For each direct question below, tick the correct indirect question.
- •56. You are interviewing someone for a job. How would you find out politely the following information?
- •57. A) Read the text below. What questions was Boris asked?
- •The Job Interview
- •59. Look at this resume. If you were interviewing Kevin Willis for the job, what questions would you ask him about his career history?
- •61. As a candidate, would you prefer to be interviewed by a woman, a man or a board?
- •Making a Selection
- •63. Discuss these points.
- •64. Read the following dialogues. Then name the stages of an interview.
- •Job Hunting
- •An Interview
- •An Interview for a job
- •65. Look at the following chart. Then read the questions below. In which section of the interview would each question appear?
- •66. A) Read the text below which advises candidates how to answer difficult interview questions.
- •Attending interviews
- •1. What don’t you like about your current position?
- •2. Where does your employer think you are today?
- •4. What are your weaknesses?
- •74. Translate the text below.
- •75. Here is an answer to a job application letter.
- •76. Read this page of Fibretech’s conditions of employment. Then complete the sentences choosing the correct option.
- •Exam section
- •1. What are the most important things for you in your work? Arrange these aspects in order of importance and add some more things you think are important:
- •2. Complete the diagram with vocabulary from the unit.
- •3. Match the following words with the correct meaning.
- •4. Match the verbs with the nouns.
- •6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
- •Complete the table below.
- •8. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words from the table above.
- •9. Complete the following passage.
- •10. Complete the sentences with the prepositions below. You can use the prepositions more than once.
- •14. Read the following interview with Margi Bogart, Product Marketing Manager at Mindsteps. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present progressive tense. MindstepsTm
- •15. Complete the sentences below. Use your own words.
- •Appendix 1 Trades and Jobs
- •Building Строительство
- •Professions Профессии
Федеральное агентство по образованию
Государственное образовательное учреждение
высшего профессионального образования
«Пермский государственный технический университет»
Чайковский филиал
Устройство на работу
Учебное пособие для студентов II курса
Чайковский, 2007 г.
Unit 1. job descriptions
1. Answer the following questions.
a) Is it a job?
People are drinking coffee.
A worker is moving a big object.
Children are building something in the sandbox.
A driver is waiting for a chief manager.
A teacher is going to the theater.
b) What do you think a job is?
c) Why work?
to earn a living
for the fun of it
for work’s sake
to make a major impact (влияние) to achieve results
for self-fulfilment
to become famous
to leave a legacy (наследство)
out of keen interest
to gain power and authority
your variant
2. Which professions are women’s/men’s ones?
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3. Name:
a) present jobs: which many women (men) now do, but which their mothers (fathers) did not do in the past.
b) past jobs: jobs which their mothers’ (fathers’) generation used to do, but which few women (men) do now.
с) Answer the question: Why you think the changes have taken place? (give three reasons).
4. What are these people?
Someone who looks after sick people in a hospital: n ______.
Someone who sells medicine: c ______.
Someone who mends (чинить, ремонтировать) lights and other electrical fittings (приспособления): e______.
Someone who mends taps (краны), baths, sinks (раковины кухонные) and so on: p______.
Someone who appears on the stage, in plays: a ______.
Someone with a whistle (свисток) who is in charge of a football match: r ______.
Someone who works in a library: l ______.
Someone who sells fruit and vegetables: g ______.
Prompts: librarian, electrician, fireman, actor/actress, sportsman, referee, pilot, greengrocer, nurse, plumber, driver, chemist, teacher, designer, programmer, seller of cosmetics
5. Name as many professions as you can.
Concerning money |
Helping people |
Working with machinery |
Communication and the Arts |
Science |
economist banker stock broker |
social worker therapist |
engineer mechanic
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artist
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scientist
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6. Name some professions you consider to be interesting. Which qualities make a good manager, etc.?
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