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Study the difference in use between job, work and career.

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Y.Complete the sentences with job, work or career.

1.Many women sacrifice interesting _______ for their family.

8.During a successful business ______, she accumulated a great amount of wealth.

9.What do you do for a living? What’s your _______ ?

10.I’m busy at the moment – I have a lot of ______.

11. I’ll be pretty busy at the weekend – I have a lot of small _____ to do in the house

and garden.

12. She manages to successfully combine family life and a ______.

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Вариант 3

I. Read and translate the text.

Friends and rivals

New York and London are cities that are popular locations for international companies. They are good business locations because they have many things that organizations look for when they want to open a new office abroad. Both cities have good transport connections with the rest of the world. They have large international a i r p o r t s . They also have good telecommunications, strong legal systems, skilled workers and famous financial institutions (the Stock Exchange in London and Wall Street in New York).There are also things in both cities for employees to do after work - restaurants, theatres, cinemas and nightclubs.

Many organizations open international offices in one of these cities. For example, Nomura, a big Japanese bank, employs about1,400 people in London, with another 400in 12 other offices across Europe. Of its 1,200 staff in the USA, 90 % are in New York.

People who work in London complain about the price of property and also about crowded roads, trains and buses. New York is also busy and expensive. However, financial executives from different countries still want to work in London and New York. This is because the Stock Exchange is the world's most international money market and London is close to the rest of Europe. Wall Street is the biggest money market in the world and New York City is home to six of the world’s ten biggest investment firms.

London and New York are competitors in the financial market, but they have different strengths. Both remain popular locations with international organizations.

II.Answer the questions to the text.

1.What famous financial institutions in Britain and the USA does the text mention?

2.How many employees does Nomura have in the USA?

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3.What kind of problem do people meet in London?

4.Why is London a good location?

5.Why do many organizations open their international offices in London and New York?

6.What can employees do after work in London and New York?

III. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right. Use a dictionary if it is necessary.

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IY. Complete the sentences with the words from task 3.

1.My mother wants me to marry a man with a______– like a doctor or lawyer.

2.The marketplace is heating up and employers are looking for fresh talent. With a growing job market in mind, Pay Scale added another tool for job seekers: a job search engine. Search for ______ that suit your strongest skills, ideal location, favorite industry and more.

3.Being an emergency surgeon is a ______ – you have to be on call 24 hours a day.

4.One of the major reasons why people want to get a ______ is to receive benefits, including paid leave time, health insurance, life insurance, and other coverage.

5.Working with refugee children was one of the most ________I’ve had.

6.When you ______, you’ll generally be asked to send in your CV/résumé,

together with a letter or email of application.

7.After she published her book, she got a ________ as director of a national newspaper.

8.As part of her ______, she attended a networking event.

9.Daniel got an _______ as an administrative assistant

10.Being a lorry driver is a _______.

11.There's a _______ for an editorial assistant in our department.

12.A lot of students look for a ________ job while pursuing their education.

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Study the difference in use between job, work and career.

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Y.Complete the sentences with job, work or career.

1.He realized that his acting _____ was over.

2.I’m trying to find a ___________ for the summer.

3.I got a lot of ___________ done this morning.

4.If a ___________ is worth doing, it’s worth doing properly.

5.I never imagined I would end up with a ______ in teaching.

6.I had the ___________ of telling him to stop picking on Brian.

7.How long does it take you to get to ___________?

8.In the end I gave him up as a bad ___________.

9.She hadn’t had a very impressive school _____ up till then.

10.She’s the best person for the ___________.

11.A little hard ___________ never hurt anyone.

12.My _______ as an English teacher didn’t last long.

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Вариант 4

I. Read and translate the text. Sickness and Business

Last Wednesday was ‘World Phone In Sick Day’, a day of protest against global capitalism, and perhaps a good excuse for staying in bed. It sounds harmless, but absenteeism is a major problem in business.

According to a recent survey, British employees had an average of 7.8 days off work for illness last year. That is a total of 192 million days or 3.4 % of total working time. The average cost of this absence per employee is £434. For the whole workforce, this represents a total of £10.7 billion for British business. Most absences are short-term (80 %) but long-term absence has a greater effect. It causes 40 % of total working time lost. An examination of the data reveals some interesting facts. There is a big difference in absenteeism from employer to employer – from 4.6 day per employee in the best, to ten days in the worst. Sometimes this is because of the type of work, but company policy on absence is important as well. Men under 40 have half the absence rate of women under 40. Public service employees phone in sick more (average 10.3 days) than private sector employees (average 7.3 days). Trade union members report sick more often than non-union workers.

The report also compares what managers think are the top five causes of absence and what the employees actually say:

How employees report absence: 1. Colds / flu; 2. Stomach problems / food poisoning; 3. Headaches / migraines; 4. Back problems; 5. Stress / emotional problems / personal problems.

In managers own opinion: 1. Colds / flu; 2. Stress / emotional problems / personal problems; 3. Monday morning blues / extending the weekend; 4. Low morale / boring job; 5. Childcare problems / family sickness.

If managers are right about the real reasons for employees taking time off, it shows us where perhaps employers can take positive action to reduce absenteeism.

II.Answer the questions to the text.

1.What is a major problem in business?

2.What causes 40 % of total working time lost?

3.What is absenteeism?

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4.What is the average cost of absence per employee?

5.What are employees’ reasons of absence?

6.What do Monday morning blues mean?

III. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right. Use a dictionary if it is necessary

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IY. Complete the sentences with the words from task 3.

1. These Regulations determine the maximum weekly _______, patterns of work and holidays, plus the daily and weekly rest period.

2. The _________ of a cup of coffee in my country is around $1.50.

3. _______workers have better working conditions than people in the private sector. 4. In my company, the ________is higher in the winter because many people get flu. 5.Most politicians who retire go into the _______ there is more money to be made with those types of companies because they aren’t tied down by the public budget of their respective local government.

6. We always travel tourist class on business tripsit’s__________. 7. I belong to a ____________.

8. My next summer holiday? I don’t know. I only make ________ plans. 9. Students _______ about cuts to the education budget.

10. The high levels of ________ at the company were caused by poor management.

11. She’s got a bad case of _______.

12. We need a reference from your former ________.

Study the difference in use between job, work and career.