- •Государственное учреждение
- •212000, Г. Могилев, пр. Мира, 43
- •I. Read/listen to some people describing their friends. Describe yourself, your family and your friends.
- •II. The quiz: What kind of person are you?
- •III. Look at the information in the table. Use it to complete the text with the positive or negative form of to like and to go.
- •I. Speak about your hobbies, ambitions and plans for future after reading these little stories:
- •II. Read how a radio interviewer is discussing developments in on-line music with Max who works in the music industry and Sam, a student. Answer the questions below:
- •II. Danny’s day.
- •III. Read what Luke says about a typical day in his life.
- •II. Isabel’s weekend.
- •III. John’s and Lola’s weekends.
- •Complete the sentences with John or Lola:
- •IV. A Busy Saturday.
- •1. Read/listen to four people talking about where they live and answer the questions below.
- •II. Read/listen to Serena’s description of her country house:
- •IV. Student’s Accommodation
- •V. Key vocabulary to help you speak about your home:
- •The cuisine in Belarus
- •II. Read/listen the story and correct the sentences given below:
- •III. Listen to how Marisa is ordering pizza:
- •IV. Read/listen to ordering food in a fast food restaurant and answer the question below:
- •Sam: Can I pay by credit card?
- •V. Laurence writes about diet in a magazine. Read the letters and Laurence answer to one of them. Which letter does it answer? Dear Laurence,
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a buyer and a shop assistant:
- •I. Read/listen to the dialogue between a travel agent and a customer:
- •II. Read the text giving the things important for air travelers:
- •IV. Steve speaks about things that may be useful for those travelling in the usa:
- •II. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to discuss what businesses can do to protect the environment:
- •Energy. – We’ve managed to reduce our energy consumption in our factory by
- •II. Answer these questions about learning English in your country:
- •III. Jackie Snow is talking about her Student’s life in London:
- •II. My University.
- •III. Engineering Specialties of the Belarusian-Russian University.
- •V. Read/listen to the interview and answers the questions given below:
- •IV. Read/listen to part 2 of the interview:
- •V. Read/listen to part 3 of the interview:
- •VI. A) Answer these questions about yourself with complete sentences,
- •VII. Using your answers to the previous questions complete the gaps:
- •VIII. Ask the same questions (Task yi) to your partner and discuss your University course and your future Engineering career with him.
- •1. Read/listen to Ian Bronec, a Mechanical Engineer, speaking about his job.
- •II. Listen to Leon Peters, a Construction Worker, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •III. Listen to Phillipe Rugeri, a Mechatronics Engineer, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
- •V Read what Diana Mayo, an it Support Technician, writes about her job. Read her story and try to retell it briefly:
- •I. Listen to an interview for the Stage Technician job.
- •II. Read the advice: how to get that job!
- •III. Sam has a job interview with a large engineering company. Give him advice using should or shouldn’t and the notes below:
- •V. Imagine that you are being interviewed. Here are the questions the interviewer may ask. Try to answer them.
- •1.Study the cv. It is based on the European cv format. Write your own cv.
- •II. Read the talk about writing cVs. Say briefly, what makes a bad cv.
- •I. Read/listen to the Dialogues. Learn underlined useful phrases. You can use them to describe any other company:
- •I. Read the numbers and quantities with the speaker:
- •II. Write down the numbers and quantities in figures:
1. Read/listen to Ian Bronec, a Mechanical Engineer, speaking about his job.
I work for a Polish company which converts diesel engines to run on natural gas. They're used in forklifts and tractors, but mostly in buses. Diesel-engine buses can produce a lot of pollution. The air quality in city centers is often quite poor. Natural gas-fuelled engines are much cleaner than diesel. The work that we do is helping to improve the air quality in our cities.
In the past few years, we've started to build gas-powered generators. They produce up to 100 kilowatts. They run on bio-gas from sewage treatment plants. They produce all the power the plant needs, and more. When there's a power cut, people find it a bit strange that the sewage plant has all its lights on.
I travel quite a lot in my job. I help to install new generators all over the country and to provide support for bus companies who use our engines. We're planning to export to other EU countries so I might have more opportunity to travel outside Poland and maybe use my English. (Technology, Unit 8, Listening scripts)
Some more questions to be answered: What kind of transport is he concerned with? 2. How does his work improve life in cities? 3. What other product does his company make? 4. What kind of fuel does this product use? Why might he have more opportunities to use English?
II. Listen to Leon Peters, a Construction Worker, speaking about his job, and answer the questions below:
I'm self-employed but I work with three other guys as a gang - that's like a team. We get contracts from construction companies, maybe a few weeks, maybe a year. It depends on the size of the building. You have to be prepared to travel wherever the work is but the money is good. There are bonuses too, for finishing ahead of schedule.
What we do is we build the steel frames of all sorts of buildings. I've worked on supermarkets, warehouses, and multistorey buildings, including one that was 30 storeys high. Everything is pre-fabricated. The steel is cut to the right size and drilled before it comes to the site. We have to bolt or weld the pieces together. It sounds easy but try lining up a one-tonne girder swinging from a crane on a winter's day when you're a hundred meters up! We like to work fast, and to do that you need ground people who make sure everything reaches you in the right order, and a crane operator who can deliver on the spot - right where you need it.
On a typical day, I could be working a twelve-hour shift. If you're high up, you don't come down for tea-breaks. Everything you need is up there - canteen, toilets.
Is it dangerous? Well, yes, but there are a lot of safety precautions. We have to wear a safety harness with a lifeline. There are safety cables slung round whichever floor you're working on, and you clip onto one as soon as you start. There's a safety net underneath the floor until the deck is down. For me, the most dangerous time is moving the girders into the right position. You could be crushed.
I'd like to set up my own construction company eventually, and employ others to do this kind of work. (Technology, Unit 9, Listening scripts)
Questions: 1. How big is Leon’s gang? 2 How long is the contract? 3 What kind of buildings has he worked on? 4 How long is a typical shift?
Find reasons why: 1) contracts vary in length: 2) bonuses are paid; 3) you need good ground people; 4) you don’t come down for tea-breaks; 5) moving girders is dangerous.