Changing your job.

Some people say that Americans go to work with resumes in their pockets. In this country, it is not unusual for people to change jobs frequently; changing jobs is a way of advancing professionally and financially. It is not considered strange for a person to have three or four job over period of ten years.

If you have a job and want to change it, keep the old job while you look for a new one. Having a job gives you an adventure. You can take your time and be selective. You also have bargaining power. You may get a better salary offer if a prospective employer knows you are not in urgent need of a job.

Ex. 7. Read the dialogues in pairs.

1.

• Are you pleased with your new job Mary?

• Yes, very much. It is just my cup of tea. I work as a translator at the research Institute?

• And what sort of translation are you engaged in ?

• Well, I translate articles on chemistry from different American and English magazines.

2.

• You look very smart today, David. Are you going out?

• Yes, I have got an appointment with professor Roberts.

• Is it Robert, the famous polar explorer?

• Yes, I am going to be his assistant.

• You will have an interesting job. You are lucky. You will travel all over the world.

3.

• I am told you want people at your plant, is it so?

• Yes, we need skilled workers of different rates.

• Any vacancies for welders?

• Yes, there are some. Please, apply to the personnel department at the plant.

Ex. 8. Topics for oral composition.

1. How will you start looking for a job?

2. What service do employment agencies offer?

3. What information can be given in ad?

4. Your friend become redundant. You ask your mother, a personnel manager to help him to find a job.

5. Tell your friend about your colleagues.

6. Advise your friend to change his job and say why?

7. What questions were you asked at an interview?

8. Tell your mother how to write a resume?

9. You have found a new job. Tell your friend how you manage to do it.

Your friend joined a new company. Tell about your depart

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.

Unit 14.

GETTING A JOB

Text: Employment Agencies.

Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech.

Практические цели: Ознакомление лексического материала по теме "Getting a job" и закрепление активной лексики в речевых упражнениях, развитие умений и навыков монологической речи. Введение грамматической темы: “Direct and Indirect Speech.” и выполнение грамматических упражнений на закрепление.

Employment Agencies.

In Britain there is a special service for school leavers, the Careers Advisory Service, which helps young people who are looking for their first job. Careers Officers give practical advice on interview techniques, application forms, letters, pay, National Insurance and Trade Unions.

One business organization that you may use when you are job-hunting is an employment agency. There are the state employment services and nonprofit agencies that do not receive fees for finding jobs for people. There exist also private employment agencies which receive a fee. Some employment agencies see applicants without an appointment. These include the state employment agencies and nonprofit agencies. Counselors there may spend a few minutes with each applicant.

But an agency that deals with technical and higher – salaried jobs, spends much more time with each applicant. Appointments are necessary in this type of agency , where a counselor may be able to see only a few applicants a day. An interview for any kind of job, whether the interview is obtained through a friend, classified advertisement, or an agency, generally requires an appointment. It is important to be on time for your appointment. If you have made an appointment and cannot keep it, or if you will be more than ten minutes late, you should always call the interviewer. If you do cancel the appointment or notify the interviewer that you will be late, you will create a negative impression on your possible employer.

To make efficient use of time, American business people schedule their days hour by hour. In most American business situations, appointments are a necessary courtesy.

Topical vocabulary.

1.job работа, должность

2.employment agency агентство по трудоустройству

3.nonprofit agencies агентство, кот. не взимает плату за услуги

4.appointment свидание, условленная встреча

5.job-hunting поиск работы

6.courtesy правила вежливости, этикет

7.classified advertisements объявления расположенное по рубрикам

8.salary заработная плата

9.fee плата за услуги, гонорар

10.to counsel давать совет, рекомендовать

11. counselor зд.служащий агентства, кот.дает рекомендации

12.to employ предоставлять работу

13.employer работодатель

14.unemployed безработный

15.employment постоянная работа,занятость

16.employee служащий

17.to schedule назначать на определенное время

18.schedule график, расписание

19.to notify уведомить (зд. об увольнениии)

20. cancel отменить

Ex.1.Give English equivalents of:

работа, должность; агентство по трудоустройству; заполнить анкету для поступления на работу; агентство, кот. не взимает плату за услуги; рекомендовать; свидание, условленная встреча; поиск работы; предоставлять работу; быть готовым к переменам; подбирать работу согласно квалификации; назначать на определенное время; работодатель; час за часом; объявления расположенные по рубрикам; заработная плата; плата за услуги, гонорар; давать совет, зд. служащий агентства, кот. дает рекомендации; безработный; постоянная работа, занятость; служащий; график, расписание; уведомить (зд. об увольнениии); советовать что- либо; создать положительное/ отрицательное впечатление; правила вежливости, этикет;

Ex.2. Suggest the Russian for:

employment agency; employer; to look for a job; to notify; schedule; employee; fee; employment; counselor; salary; to counsel; unemployed; the Careers Advisory Service; to schedule; classified advertisements; for school leavers; Carries Officers; job-hunting; appointment; nonprofit agencies; job; a special service; courtesy; to employ; National Insurance and Trade Unions;

to give practical advice; to exist; private employment agencies; to receive a fee; an applicant; to deal with; higher – salaried jobs; to be on time; cancel an appointment; to create a negative impression on your possible employer; to make efficient use of time;

Ex.3.Replace the italicized parts of the sentences by words and word combinations from the vocabulary.

1. In American business practice making appointments is a rule of polite behavior.

2. He went to an employment agency to meet a person who gives advice, but first he had to talk to the employee who receives callers and answers the phone.

3. He went to the manager in order to formally ask for a job.

4. He doesn’t work at the moment, he is out of work.

5. His parents couldn’t make him leave the job, they could only advice.

Ex.4.Choose the right word.

Job- position- occupation

“job” – anything that one has to do ,task, duty

“position” – a person’s relative place, as in society; rank; status;

“ occupation” – that which chiefly engages one’s time; one’s trade;

1. He was unemployed doing only odd ..... .

2. Knitting is a useful ... for a long winter evenings.

3. This aid is for those who have a very low ... in society.

4. My sister occupies an important ... in the Department of Health.

5. The police called to the company to find out his ... at the moment.

6. He had a hard .... painting the car.

Ex.5. Translate the following sentences:

1. Когда я вошла в офис агентства, секретарь, встречающий посетителей, спросил меня, назначена ли у меня встреча. 2. У меня назначена встреча с начальником отдела на 10: 15. 3. Я проходил мимо вашего агентства и решил зайти и поговорить с одним из ваших сотрудников. 4. Он не пришел в назначенное время на встречу с мистером Брауном, это, конечно, произвело крайне отрицательное впечатление. 5. Вам придется начать работу с самой маленькой должности, чтобы приобрести необходимый опыт. 6.Вы должны пойти на курсы, чтобы приобрести знания, необходимые для этой работы. 7. Агентство поможет вам подобрать работу согласно вашей квалификаций.

Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech