2. How do you see your future profession? Please answer the following questions:

1) What kind of work are you interested in?

a) well paid

b) interesting

c) in a large and famous company

d) quiet

e) in an industry which has a future

f) prestigious

g) not to sit the whole day in the office

h) to travel a lot

2) What position would you like to have?

a) to manage people — manager

b) to work for someone else — an employee

c) to be your own boss — self-employed, businessman

d) to be responsible for everything — top manager, director

e) to work for the state — state employee

3. Choose the correct variant:

to pay	вибирати
unemployed	безробіття
to choose	пропонувати
vocational	обов’яковий
leave	безработні
to be fond of	платити
to offer	любити, подобатись
unemployment	посібник, користь
compulsory	професіональний
benefit	відпустка

4. Complete the sentences:

1. I want to be a technician because … . 2. It is often difficult to choose a profession because … . 3. Vocational and specialized schools train … . 4. If a student does well, he gets … . 5. Everybody gets a job because there is no … in our country.

5. Please discuss with your group advantages and disadvantages of your future profession. Do you think that the profession of a welder is prestigios? Is it well-paid? How difficult is it to find a good work in this field?

IW #2 YEVHEN PATON

1. Read and translate the text in a written form.

Yevhen Paton, prominent Ukrainian scientist in the field of bridge-building and welding, was born in Nice in 1870 in the family of a Russian ambassador and received his education abroad. He graduated from the Politechnical Institute in Dresden, and later from the Institute or Engineers of Means of Communication in St. Petersburg.

From 1904 till 1939, with several breaks, Paton was a professor as the Politechnical Institute of Kyiv. He made a valuable contribution to the science of designing bridges, the technology of their building and the methods of testing them. He was the author of several fundamental manuals on the building of bridges, and some original projects for bridges and overpasses.

Later Paton got interested in welding. He wrote a great deal of works in the field of welding. He founded the Ukrainian school of welding.

One of the longest bridges across the Dnepr (1.543 km long) is named after him. In 1930 Paton organized the Research Institute of Electro-welding at the Academy of Sciences.

Nowdays the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine includes many outstanding scientists and research workers famous for their discoveries. Great success has achieved by the Paton Research Institute of Electric Welding, the Research Institute of Cybernetics, Superhard Material, and others.

Paton's son, Boris (born 1918), continued his father's career. He became an academician, too. He worked out new methods of welding and laid the foundations of welding in outer space.