I. Answer the questions:

1. Why have you chosen the profession of a teacher?

2. Were your parents teachers?

3. When did you decide to be a teacher?

4. Who helped you to choose this profession?

5. Where will you work after graduating from this University?

6. Compose the text about your future profession.

II. Translate from Russian into English:

1. Мой сын должен учиться только на хорошо и отлично, чтобы сдать выпускные экзамены.

2. Наш университет дает глубокие знания по всем предметам.

3. Профессия учителя дает массу возможностей узнавать новых людей.

4. Понемногу я начала понимать, что моя профессия самая лучшая из всех.

5. Выбранная профессия связана с будущим благосостоянием и социально значима.

Everybody’s Good at Something Do this personality test and find the right career for you.

1. A friend is having problems with a University project. She asks you to help. What would you do?

1. Help her after classes. Tell her to phone you if she has any more problems.

2. Give her a plan of how you would do the project. Tell her the names of books where she can find information.

3. Suggest ways of making her project attractive and interesting.

4. Ask her to organize a work timetable so she finishes the project on time.

2. You are working for a charity in a village in Columbia. Your boss tells your team to repair an old bridge across the river. What would you do?

1. Ask the villagers what they want. Ask them to give you advice.

2. Choose a specific job that you think you could do well, such as collecting wood. Then plan how you could do the job efficiently.

3. Try to improve the design of the bridge. Look at the river and see if there is a better place to build the bridge.

4. Ask everybody in your team to do specific jobs. Make sure they know what to do. Choose one of the hardest jobs yourself to set an example.

3. You are on a trip with your groupmates when the coach has an accident. No one is hurt, but you are stuck on a forest road with no traffic. It’s getting dark and it has started to snow. What would you do?

1. Talk to anybody who looks afraid or worried. Tell them not to worry.

2. Keep calm. You know that the situation is not really dangerous and somebody is going to get help.

3. Tell your friends a story, while you are waiting for help.

4. Take control of the situation. Tell everybody not to panic. Ask a small group to go to the nearest village to get help. Tell everybody on the bus to put on more clothes to keep warm.

4. Last week your teacher asked your group to perform a short play for the party. So far, nothing has been done and there are only ten days before the performance. What would you do?

1. Offer to take part and ask others to do the same. Help people to learn their lines.

2. Organize some of the practical things, such as costumes, scenery and sound effects.

3. Think of ideas for the play. Write the dialogue and show it to the group.

4. Offer to direct the performance. Choose people for different roles.