Отксерокопировать!!! Text “Choosing a Career”

Answer the questions quoting the texts.

1. What are the problems facing many high school leavers associated with?

2. Why do many students finish high school and begin college without a clear idea of what they want to do?

3. What is the advantage of new industries?

4. Is choosing a career easy?

5. Why is it so important to know your personal interests?

6. Why is it so important to find the right career?

7. Why can’t some people evaluate themselves?

8. What are the common mistakes in choosing a career?

9. What happens to people who don’t take the trouble to evaluate themselves?

10. What is “manana”?

11. What are the necessary steps if you want to avoid mistakes?

12. What are the author’s recommendations to average people (those who are not obviously talented)?

13. Do you agree with the author’s procedure of making a list of your interests?

14. Could you add anything else to the list?

Complete the sentences using information from the texts.

1. When you finish school you should have … of what you want to do in life.

2. Part of the problem why students finish high school without a clear idea what they want to do is …

3. Those who know themselves …

4. One of the most important decisions you will make in your life is …

5. Find the right career and … Find the wrong career and you …

6. It is necessary to … yourself if you want … of your own special talent…

7. Children often … of their parents or relatives choosing a career.

8. To find the right career you must …

9. Those who don’t take the trouble of evaluating themselves …

10. Procrastinating is called …

11. When you constantly procrastinate you …

Отксерокопировать!!! Text “The Job Interview”

Answer the questions quoting the texts.

1. Why is the job interview very important?

2. What can help you to prepare for the interview?

3. What is the etiquette in the interview?

Complete the sentences using information from the texts.

1. In the interview an applicant must …

2. At the beginning of an interview …

3. If interviewers want to get to know the applicant better they may ask …

4. Only those applicants have better chances to get the job who …

Text “Work and Careers”

Answer the questions quoting the texts.

1. What kind of people do we call “square pegs in round holes”?

2. Why should we try to find out our talents and learn how to use them?

3. What fields for making a career do you know?

Complete the sentences using information from the texts.

1. A person who is not suited for the job he is doing is “…

2. We should try to find out our talents and develop them because …

3. We can find out our talents through …

4. Aptitude test, interviews with specialists can help us to …

Упражнения

1. Answer the questions.

2. Have you made a decision about your future profession?

3. Are you going to follow your parents’ advice?

4. What do your parents want you to be? Do they approve of your choice?

5. Do you think you have enough talents and qualities* for your future profession?

6. Do you think it is wise to try many jobs?

7. When can work be enjoyable?

8. What is the first step when you have chosen your future occupation?

9. What kind of job can a beginner have?

10. When can a person be dismissed?

*(Качества: Patience, courage, determination, goodwill, charm, stamina, reliability, loyalty, energy, experience, commitment, talent, creativity, intelligence, training.)