3.2 Answer the questions.

1 How did her life change when she was 37?

2 Who could she rely on in her business?

3 What period was the most difficult?

4 Does she employ many full-time employees?

5 How many IT specialists are working for her now?

6 How much did she have to work at first?

7 How much does she work at present?

8 Does she have to pay a babysitter to look after her children?

9 Is she really to sacrifice her family to the business?

10 Does she go on long holidays?

3.3 Find English equivalents in the text.

1 начать бизнес, создать компанию;

2 постоянные клиенты;

3 сотрудники, работающие на полную ставку;

4 приглашенные сотрудники;

5 нанимать на работу;

6 работающие в области информационных технологий;

7 стиль работы;

8 пожертвовать чем-либо.

3.4 Create your own cv using Anna’s as a guide.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Anna Petrova

Date of birth: 11 September, 1979.

Address: Pushkinskaya street, 40/12

Telephone number: 321-18-44

Marital status: single

Education: 1986-1996 – secondary school № 38 (specialization in ….);

1996 – secretarial courses (typing, computer literacy, business correspondence). Now I am the the student of the Foreign Languages Department at the University.

Working experience: 1995-1996 – private teacher (English);

1996-1997 – ABC company, secretary.

Skills: communicative English; Word, Excel for Windows-95.

Hobbies: knitting, skiing.

References: the following people have offered to write references for me:

Natalia B. Ivanova, Teacher of English, school № 38, tel. no 333-12-14

Sergey T. Govorov, principal, secretarial courses, tel. no. 211-13-23;

Nikolai V. Mishin, manager, ABC company, tel. no. 143-84-06.

3.5 Look at the extracts 1-6 from a cv (curriculum vitae). Match them to the highlighted words or phrases in the recruitment agency advertisement.

Personal details education qualifications professional experience personal interests referees

(1) _____

1. Mr R. Daily (college tutor).

Doncaster University, Box 478B, Doncaster

2. Mrs Mary Whitehead (General Manger),

Socks Are Us, High Street, Halifax

(2) _____

2002-2004 Socks Are Us, Halifax (Manager)

2000-2001 CD Heaven, Halifax (Assistant Manager)

(3) _______

Alison Peabody

Date of birth: 4^th Match 1978

Address: 39d, Victoria Road, Halbridge

Tel: 0719 376488

Email: ali.peabody@quickmail.com

(4) _________

2000 DMS (Diploma of Marketing and Sales)

1999 BA Business Studies

1996 Three A levels: English, Business Studies, History

(5) _________

1999-2000 University of Doncaster

1989-1996 Brunel School for Girls, Halifax

(6) __________

Cinema, travel, tennis, eating out

3.6 Vocabulary.

Exercise 1 Match the people to what they do.

1. A journalist a. will operate on you if you are ill.

2. A chef b. designs clothes.

3. A miner c. builds roads, bridges or machines.

4. A farmer d. writes for a newspaper.

5. An engineer e. cooks in a restaurant.

6. A fashion designer f. works underground.

7. A surgeon g. grows food for all of us.

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences in column A with a phrase from column B.

1. At the donut shop, Madonna was in charge a. of work.

2. She was fired b. as a model.

3. Brad Pitt used to work c. for cleaning the tables

4. When he was young, he was often out d. from the job

5. For a time, Tom Cruise earned e. of the coffee machine.

6. He was responsible f. a living in a New York restaurant

Exercise 3 Complete the sentences with the missing verbs.

1. I would like to ____ for the job of receptionist.

2. If you’re so tired, why don’t you ____ a day off?

3. The workers decided to ____ on strike.

4. I think it is important to ____ your job well.

5. They ____ really long hours.

Exercise 4 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1. Many film stars had very different jobs/works before they started their acting careers/jobs.

2. Madonna hated her career/work at donut shop, but she needed a job/work.

3. Brat Pitt had a career/job as a dancing chicken outside a restaurant before he began his career as an actor.

4. Tom Cruise was thinking of a career/work in the church before finding job/work in the movies.

Exercise 5 Match the words to make names of jobs.

1. police a. attendant

2. shop b. representative

3. flight c. guard

4. driving d. officer

5. sales e. driver

6. security f. instructor

7. taxi g. assistant