Text study

1. Exercise 1. Match the columns.

1. Some people choose their future profession under the influence of…	…the engineering and technological department.
2. A new specialty “labor protection specialist”…	…”Man’s physiology”, Medical and biological basis of vital functions safety”, “Ecology” and so on.
3. I study at…	…control the machines, equipment and storage according to the norms of labor safety.
4. The department trains…	…their parents or friends, whose advice they find helpful and valuable.
5. Labor safety is a very…	…labor protection engineers, engineering technologists for the agro-industrial complex.
6. The worker must periodically…	…attracted my attention.
7. Efficiency in safety is determined on the basis of …	…all kinds of machinery, working places, means of collective and individual protection.
8. The students of our department are specializing in …	…important problem in agricultural production.
9. The students of our department study the following disciplines …	…in labor protection services at enterprises, in organizations of the agro-industrial complex as labor protection specialists.
10. Specialists are trained to work…	…regular monitoring in the following categories: injuries, equipment compatibility, work environment, personal protective equipment, fire equipment.

(B) Exercise 2. Define whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. Actually it’s not a pleasant thing to stay all your life in the job, which you don’t like.

2. It’s by chance that I entered the Belarusian State Agrarian and Technical University.

3. The engineering and technological department trains labor protection specialists, engineering technologists for the agro-industrial complex.

4. Labor safety is of no importance in agricultural production.

5. The worker must periodically control and repair machines, equipment and storage according to the norms of labor safety.

6. The students of our department are specializing in cattle-breeding and crop cultivation.

7. Specialists are trained to work in labor protection services at enterprises of the agro-industrial complex.

(B) Exercise 3. Work out answers to the following questions. Ask a friend the same question.

1. Did you hesitate about the choice of your future career?

2. What University do you study at?

3. What specialties does your department train?

4. What is your future profession connected with?

5. Is labor safety a very important problem in agricultural production?

6. What are main duties of the worker?

7. How is efficiency in safety determined?

8. What are the main professional subjects of your educational program?

9. Where can labor protection engineers work after graduating from the University?

10. Where are you going to work after graduating from the University?

(C) Exercise 4. Talk about the following aspects of your future career:

• factors that influenced the choice of your future profession

• the department you study at and the information you can give about it

• different kinds of jobs labor protection engineers fulfill

• the peculiarities of your future profession

• the ways of being employed in the job market