Vocabulary

4. Based on this information, check (√) the job you feel would not be a good choice for each personality type.

1. Artistic a) actor b) computer programmer

c) photographer d) songwriter

2. Conventional a) accountant b) bookkeeper

c) inventor d) secretary

3. Enterprising a) painter b) manager

c) politician d) salesperson

4. Investigative a) detective b) model

c) psychologist d) researcher

5. Realistic a) carpenter b) factory worker

c) mechanic d) reporter

6. Social a) doctor b) nurse

c) writer d) teacher

Speaking

5. Describe your personality type according to the information of the text:

Which personality type are you most similar to?

What kind of jobs do you think fit your personality?

Reading

Personal appearance at work

A) Read the two case studies and answer these questions.

1. What job did the men do?

2. Why were their employers upset?

3. Who apologized? Who accepted the change?

4. Who intends to sue his employer? Why?

Case 1.

John Humphries, aged 62, is a lorry dri­ver who is proud of being well-dressed for work. However, his employer told him that he must not come to work in a collar and tie to drive his 17-tonne lorry. If he did so, he faced the sack. When working, Mr. Humphries, an ex-Royal Airforce man, wore dark blue trousers, a light blue shirt, and a red and grey striped tie. He felt he looked smart and impressed the cus­tomers. “If you present your­self properly, you look good and get respect,” he said.

Mr. Humphries' employers were not impressed when he refused to give up his collar and tie. They wanted him to conform to the company’s new image of casual clothing such as T-shirts or sweat shirts. They even threatened to dismiss him if he didn't accept their new dress code. Union officials advised him to accept the change and follow the company's policy. He agreed.

Case 2.

Yoshiaki Nishiura, a 25-year-old lorry driver from western Japan, was sacked because he dyed his hair brown. (This is a popular fashion with a growing number of young Japanese.) Although he apologized and dyed it black again, he was still fired. His employer, Mr. Yamago believed that behavior like Mr. Nishiura's undermined company discipline and corrupted morale. He blamed it on American influence. 'We need drivers to maintain a professional appearance to make a good impression he said. A Japanese journalist said, “Japanese firms expect all employees to look the same and think the same. When you enter a company, you sign away your human rights”.

Mr. Nishiura is going to sue his employer for unfair dismissal.

B) Discuss these questions

a) the employers’ decisions? b) the employees ‘reactions?

How important is your personal appearance at work?

Think about formal clothing, uniforms, men with earrings, and tattoos, etc.

Write a short report:

1. Are you going to continue your parents’ career?

2. How do you think will your job give you many opportunities?

3.If you wanted to find out about job opportunities or vacancies at a large company or international organization, how would you do it?

• Prepare a report on one of the suggested topics:

1. What should we do to escape the problem of unemployment?

Lesson 8

The secret of genius

Grammar: The Subjunctive mood

The secret of genius

Before you start

1. Choose one of the following statements you think is the main idea of the text:

Geniuses are born with a special talent that other people don’t have.

Geniuses achieve success though hard work rather than a special talent.

Geniuses are 50% of talent and 50% of hard labor.

Reading

2. Read the text and answer the questions below:

What do Dineshi, the Yusof children and Mozart have in common?

What does the example of Billy Sidis show about genius?

What do you think is this statement true or false according to the text? “Anyone can be a genius if he or she works hard enough”.

The secret of genius

1. She looks like any other little girl in her first year at school: a smart uniform, a happy smile and a bag of books. But Dineshi, a five-year-old from west London is so clever that she seems almost unreal. Dineshi knew the alphabet, the days of the week and the months of the year when she was one and a half. She started reading just before her second birthday and writing just after it. “When she was a baby, I realized she was exceptionally bright,” says Dineshi's mother, “so I tried to provide an environment to help her develop intellectually. I started giving her lessons and she enjoyed them.”

2. Mr. and Mrs. Yusof from Coventry know all about creating an environment that encourages intellectual development. Mr. Yusof gave up his job to educate their children at home. They were encouraged to read books from an early age and they watch television only occasionally, usually for “educational” programs. Sufiah, the eldest daughter, went to university when she was 13. Her brother started his university studies at 12. Their mother said: “You must have the correct environment - the schooling, the family, the support, they must all come together.”

3. Are geniuses happy? As a child in the early 1900s, Billy Sidis was described as “the most remarkable boy in the United States”. Brilliant at languages, he taught himself Latin at four and could read and speak eight languages when he was six. At eleven, he gave a lecture to the University of Harvard Mathematical Club. He was a genius until everything began to go wrong. His parents had pushed him to develop his exceptional intelligence, but had totally neglected other important skills. For example, Sidis did not know how to dress himself properly even by the time he was an adolescent. Finally, he suffered a breakdown.

They are bright, but they lack the drive to get on: motivation. Thomas Edison, the inventor of electric light, said genius was 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.

Speaking

3. Read the article again and decide if the statements below are true (T), false (F) or there is no information (NI):

Dineshi had an IQ of 160 when he was 10.

The Yusofs think that the correct schooling, the family and the support help to become a genius.

Most people believe that incredible abilities are inborn.

It took many years for Thomas Edison to develop a light bulb, with actually worked.

Writing

4. Write out from the box at least 10 personality adjectives that describe a genius. Discuss with your partner and prove that they really suit for a genius.

happy strong clever pleasant bright unreliable encouraged

depressed remarkable lazy persistent relaxed ambitious

unstable skillful anxious motivated weak lucky humble

• Make a round table discussion.

Do you know anybody who is accepted as a genius in your University and is his speciality connected with technical science?

Do exercises from Macmillan English grammar in use.