General Discussion on Unit 6 “Jobs”

Answer the questions on jobs.

1. Where can you get advice about choosing a career?

2. What help can unemployed young people in your country get? What can they do for themselves to improve their chances of finding work?

3. What kind of jobs have you had (part-time and full-time)?

4. Are there many good job vacancies for you in your country?

5. What is your dream job?

6. What jobs do you do at home?

7. Are there jobs that are only for women or only for men? What are they?

8. How many jobs do you think you’ll have in your life?

9. Are there any jobs you would refuse to do, regardless of the pay?

10. Is being a rock star or sports star a job?

11. What do you think the job of being an English teacher is like?

12. Who has the best job in the world? Why do you think so?

13. Do you often check the jobs ads in newspapers or on the Internet?

14. What kinds of jobs interest you most and least?

15. Is the job market in your country growing?

16. What are the toughest jobs in the world?

17. Is being a housewife a job? Should women get paid for this?

18. Do you like job hunting applying for jobs?

19. What is the job description of your last job?

20. Does everyone have equal job opportunities in your country?

21. What’s the best way to pass job interviews?

22. What is the best way to quit a job?

Answer the questions on employment.

1. Do you have good employment prospects?

2. What is your employment track record?

3. Have you ever visited an online employment agency?

4. Do you ever look at the employment pages in newspapers?

5. Do you think companies should offer employees lifetime employment?

6. Have you ever worked somewhere that had bad employment conditions?

7. Do you always study the terms of employment carefully before you accept a job offer?

8. Have you ever had your employment terminated?

9. Are there any conditions of employment you insist on?

10. Are working conditions in your country better than those in other countries?

11. What do you understand by the term ‘full employment’?

12. Is unemployment a problem in your country?

13. Is there equal opportunities in employment in your country?

14. Do you ever take any notice of employment statistics?

15. Would you like to be self-employed?

16. Do you think young people care enough about their employment prospects?

17. Have you ever tried to change details on your employment contract?

18. What rules should there be regarding children and employment?

19. Which countries and companies do you think offer the best employment opportunities?

20. What help should a government give those looking for employment?

Answer the questions on qualifications.

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘qualification’?

2. What qualifications do you have?

3. What qualifications would you like to have?

4. Which qualifications do you think are best to have?

5. Do you think everybody needs qualifications?

6. Do all qualifications need to be recognized by employers?

7. Do you think some qualifications are a waste of time and money?

8. What are the minimum qualifications needed to do the job you have / want?

9. What qualifications would you expect your English teacher to have?

10. Are qualifications important to you?

11. Would you rather have a well-qualified teacher with little experience or a very experienced teacher with no qualifications?

12. Do you think there should be minimum qualifications for politicians and presidents? What qualifications does your country’s leader have for his/her job?

13. Do you think qualifications should be the same in each country so they can be used all over the world?

14. Have you ever lied (would you ever lie) about the qualifications on your resume in order to get a really good job ?

15. Is it possible to be overqualified for a job (i.e. to have too many qualifications)?

Comment on the quotes. What is your opinion?

1. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Browne

2. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson

3. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. Robert Orben

4. If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? Author Unknown

5. We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us. Author Unknown

6. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. John G. Pollard

7. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Author Unknown

8. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. "Fats" Domino

9. Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life. Author Unknown

10. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee

11. The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. Stanley J. Randall

12. I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. Bill Gold

13. A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. William C. Feather

14. Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. Scott Adams

15. Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. Author Unknown

16. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

17. The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost

18. What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. Lee Iacocca

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