Module II

Topics: Professions and Professional Duties

Means of Transport

Travelling

Grammar: The Future Simple Tense; to be going to; Prepositions of Place;

Degrees of comparison of adjectives; Pronouns, Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Articles with geographical names and nationalities.

Unit I

Text A

Professions and Professional Duties

Eastern Europe Research Center

The Eastern Europe Research Center is in Kyiv. The Center conducts research and publishes a journal on economic problems in Eastern Europe. The Director is an economist, the Deputy Director is a political scientist.

11 other employees work for the Center: a secretary, 3 typists, an accountant, a lawyer, 3 clerks and an editor. And of course, a charwoman.

The accountant works part-time. She is busy with all the financial issues of the Center. The 3 clerks in the Research Unit are in fact researchers. One of them is a senior researcher who manages the work of the Research Unit. They collect data on different economic issues and file or log them into the computer. Then they analyze the data and write articles for the journal.

The editor of the journal is the head of the Publishing Unit. He distributes assignments and supervises over the work of the 3 typists and prepares weekly reports for the Director. He is responsible for the issue of the journal that is published monthly, that is, the journal is a monthly edition.

The Director’s secretary sometimes helps the Deputy Director but does not work for the Research Unit – she is very busy. She answers telephone calls, arranges meetings, makes appointments and so on.

The lawyer is rather experienced in his profession. He prepares legal papers for state registration, makes reports on audits and contracts, defends the rights of the Center in court and Arbitration Committees*, if necessary, he consults the Director and accountant on legal issues, as well as all the other employees.

The Center is a NGO* (Non-Government Organization) and it maintains relations with other NGOs in Ukraine and abroad, as well as with government agencies. It is a small organization and there is no Personnel Department or a Personnel Manager.

*Notes:

Arbitration Committee		арбітраж
NGO		не урядова організація

Ex. 1. Find in the text international words and read them out loud.

Ex. 2. Complete the questions and answer them:

1. What (is/do/are) the Center busy with?

2. What (is/are/do) the Director and Deputy Director by profession?

3. How many people (do work/work/works) for the Center and what is their position in the Center?

4. What (does/are /do) the researchers deal with?

5. What (are/does/do) the editor do?

6. What (are/is/do) the duties of the Director’s secretary?

7. (Is/are/am) the lawyer experienced in his profession? Why do you think so?

8. (are/do/is) the Center a government agency?

9. What other organizations (do/are/does) the Center maintain relations with?

10. How many employees (does work/do work/work) for their personnel department?

Ex. 3 Match the English words and world-combinations from set A with

their Ukrainian equivalents from set B:

SET A	SET B
analyze the data	відділ кадрів
work part-time	бути відповідальним за...
conduct research	організовувати зустрічі
prepare legal papers	захищати права
maintain relations with	вносити дані в комп’ютер
supervise over the work	призначати зустрічі
collect data	розподіляти завдання
distribute assignments	збирати дані
be responsible for	бути досвідченим у...
arrange meetings	працювати неповний робочий день
defend the rights	готувати юридичні документи
make appointments	керувати роботою
be experienced in	проводити дослідження
file or log the data into the computer	видання журналу
issue of the journal	підтримувати зв’язки з...
Personnel Department	мати справу з...
deal with	аналізувати дані

Ex. 4. Contradict the statements below according to the models. Work in pairs.

Use: for A: As far as I know, as far as I remember, I am sure.

for B: Northing of the kind, but, the text says.

Model : A. Eastern Europe Research Center is in Lviv, as far as I know.

B. But (The text says) it is not in Lviv, it is in Kyiv.

1. There are 20 employees in the Center, … . 2. They haven’t got a charwoman, … 3. They have got 5 researchers in the Research Unit. 4. Director of the Center is a political scientist, …. 5. Their lawyer does not deal with legal papers, he only consults the employees, … 6. Their accountant works 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, … . 7. Deputy Director supervises over the work of the typists, … 8. The Center does not maintain relations with other organizations, … . 9. The secretary only makes tea for Director, nothing else (більш нічого), … .

Ex. 5. Speak on:

1. The work of the Center and the number of people who work for the Center.

2. The duties of the accountant and the researchers.

3. The responsibilities of the editor.

4. The duties of the secretary.

5. The work of the lawyer.