
- •Introduction
- •1. How do you choose a career?
- •1.1. “Working” vocabulary
- •1.2. Choosing a career
- •Choosing a career
- •1.3. Career and personality
- •What is Your Career Personality?
- •Does My Personality Match this Career?
- •1.4. The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •1. Begin with your values.
- •2. Identify your skills and talents.
- •3. Identify your preferences.
- •4. Experiment.
- •5. Become broadly literate.
- •6. In your first job, opt for experience first, money second.
- •7. Aim for a job in which you can become 110% committed.
- •8. Build your lifestyle around your income, not your expectations.
- •9. Invest five percent of your time, energy, and money into furthering your career.
- •10. Be willing to change and adapt.
- •1.5. Revision
- •2. Looking for a job
- •2.1. Work
- •2.3. Job search methods
- •Job search methods
- •2.4. Experience first, money second
- •My life as an intern
- •2.5. Revision
- •3. Applying for a job
- •3.1. Looking for and applying for a job
- •3.2. Want ads
- •3.3. How does a selection process go?
- •The Selection Process
- •Interview...
- •3.4. Getting ready for a job interview
- •Curriculum vitae
- •Interests
- •Personal statement
- •Covering letter
- •Mega Video Store requires trainee manager
- •16, London road,
- •23, High Road,
- •Planning
- •Writing
- •Checking
- •3.5. A job interview
- •3.6. Getting and keeping a job
- •3.7. Revision
- •4. At work
- •4.1. Career and promotion
- •One man's career
- •Being busy
- •Other idioms connected with work
- •During your working life
- •4.2. Colleagues and routines
- •Colleagues
- •Daily work routines
- •During the day (different work-patterns)
- •Types of work
- •4.3. Revision
- •5. The everchanging workplace
- •5.1. Revolution in the workplace
- •Recent changes in the world of work
- •Help wanted
- •5.2. The changing workplace
- •What makes a good workplace?
- •The Changing Workplace
- •5.3. Revision
- •6. Gender issues in the workplace
- •6.1. Men vs women
- •6.2. Gender stereotypes at work
- •6.3. Inequality at work
- •Inequality at work
- •6 .4. Gender discrimination in the workplace and at home
- •6.5. Balancing home and work
- •Balancing home and work
- •Value of housework
- •A Cinderella story
- •6.6. Revision
- •7. Check yourself
- •2. Write some collocations or brainstorm some related topics 1. Write a definition
- •Vocabulary Word
- •3. Use the word in a sentence or question 4. Recall a sentence with the word from the text.
- •Useful phrases
- •Writing a Summary Conflicting interests
- •Understanding the task
- •Deciding what is important
- •Answering questions to write a summary
- •Summarising a paragraph
- •Cutting out unnecessary information
- •6. Understanding the task
- •7. Planning
- •8. Writing
- •9. Checking
- •Presentation Signpost Expressions
- •Introducing the topic
- •Presentations. Structure and Useful Phrases
- •Introduction
- •Interpreting information
- •Discourse markers in speech and in writing
6.6. Revision
WRITING
Task 1. Your teacher will read you an article in Russian about the problems some women have to face in a way of combining work and raising a family. Listen to it twice. Then work individually and render it into English, using your active vocabulary. When you are done, join your learning teams. Present and describe your versions, together with other students in the team create one variant of the rendering and present it in class.
7. Check yourself
Task 1. Translate the following expressions into English:
безработные;
увольнять;
совершать ошибки, которые обходятся дорого;
плыть по течению, упуская много возможностей;
идти по стопам к.-л.;
прислушаться к себе;
«батрачить» на работе;
Век живи – век учись;
выбрать профессию по душе, а не по размеру заработка;
Что вас действительно интересует?;
опыт незаменим;
быть новичком на рынке труда;
получать опыт работы;
работать посменно;
работать «от звонка до звонка»;
уйти в отпуск по уходу за ребенком;
зарабатывать на жизнь;
игра на выживание;
начать заниматься профессией после того, как всю жизнь занимался чем-то другим;
надеяться на чудо;
искать работу;
быстро найти работу;
казаться немного озадаченным;
получить работу через знакомых;
ярмарка вакансий;
подать заявление на участие в конкурсе на замещение вакантной должности;
быть приглашенным на собеседование;
вакансии быстро заполняются;
сплоченная команда;
оказаться в списке претендентов на получение должности;
составить резюме;
бесперспективная работа;
подняться на самый верх карьерной лестницы;
быть заваленным работой;
говорить о работе в нерабочее время;
просиживать штаны в офисе;
распространение информационных технологий;
компьютер заменил большую часть работы с бумагами;
«удаленный» работник;
структурировать свое рабочее время;
Неужели перспективы трудоустройства настолько безрадостны?;
Сектор услуг будет преобладать;
компьютерная грамотность и знание математики;
получить достойное образование и востребованные навыки;
быть типичным для чего-либо;
быть связанным со своим рабочим местом посредством технологии;
идти в ногу с развитием современных технологий;
быстро меняться, бросая вызовы отдельным людям и целым обществам;
Женщины обычно занимают менее престижные и более низко-оплачиваемые должности;
Женщины находятся далеко не на таком же экономическом уровне, как мужчины;
Возможности продвижения по службе ограничены;
сочетать домашние хлопоты и работу;
перегрузка социальными ролями;
выполнять львиную долю работы по дому;
быть общественно приемлемым;
взвалить на себя основную нагрузку.
Task 2. Make a presentation of the topic following the questions below and using active vocabulary of the unit. Do not only use the ideas from the texts. Remember to give your personal opinion and examples using the active vocabulary.
A. Choosing a career and looking for a job.
Choosing a career is one of the biggest and most difficult decisions you will make in your life, isn’t it?
What are the ways to succeed in choosing a career?
What are some costly mistakes people make while choosing a career?
How many jobs do you think you will have in your life?
What follows your graduating from the university?
What job search methods are familiar to you?
How may people feel after a spell of job hunting?
How to avoid feeling low in self-esteem, desperate and frustrated after a spell of job-hunting?
”Job hunting is the loneliest task in the world”. Comment on the quotation.
What can help you in getting a job?
How does a person make a good first impression in an interview? Discuss.
Why did you choose the career for which you are preparing?
What career, other than the one you are preparing for, do you find most appealing?
B. Getting and keeping a job.
Technological changes affect our lives directly: which ones may lead to people losing their jobs?
What do you think of the perspective for the future concerning work opportunities? How might it affect you?
What kind of personality and professional would succeed in getting and keeping a job in a modern rapidly changing society?
What would an ideal job be like for you? Describe a desirable work pattern.
What makes a good workplace? And what makes a good studying place?
If you had to choose between a job that you loved that paid $15,000 a year and a job that you hated that paid $25,000 a year, which job would you take? Explain why.
C. Inequality at work and at home.
Man’s work, woman’s work: does this division only concern housework or careers as well?
What are the gender issues today? Talk about at least two.
The changes brought on by the women's liberation movement are typically seen as benefiting women. Do men also benefit from women's liberation? Discuss.
If you could have a household robot, for what jobs would you want it programmed? Discuss.
The United States has never had a female president. What do you attribute this to? Discuss.
Most teachers in public schools are female. Can you explain why?
Appendix 1.
What problems might be discussed in the topic you are dealing with now? Or what problems would you like to discuss? Work in pairs or in small groups and complete the diagram.
Cluster Diagram
Appendix 2.
Vocabulary Word Map