2. Work as a group and give the names of occupations related to:

teaching; health care; law; industry; business; f) management;

g) mass media; h) science; i) art; j) manual work; k) services; l) rare jobs.

3. In small groups make a list of jobs which can be described as:

full-time, part-time, temporary, seasonal, prestigious, demanding, challenging, caring, influencing, managerial.

4. Workwith your teacher and think of the jobs requiring:

good qualification, rich imagination, an attractive appearance, refine taste, good sense of humour, quick mind, self-discipline, great responsibility, tolerance, special skills (administrative, organizational, etc.).

5. Choose the right word.

1. What do you ... (do/make) for a living?

2. Workers are called blue collars and they earn ... (wages /salaries).

3. Wages in the USA and Europe are paid ... weekly /monthly.

4. Office clerks are called white collars and they earn ... salaries/fees.

5. Salaries are paid ... monthly/daily.

6. Payment for particular professional advice or service (private doctors, lawyers, teachers) is called ...fee/profit.

7. I have been ... offered/proposed a job in London. But I haven't been prepared to ... give up / take on that job.

8. A curriculum vitae /autobiography is a brief account of somebody's previous career.

6. Work as a group now and think on the following:

do the hair; gather crop; prepare medicines; build or repair roads; compose music; do the painting; sell meat; have special knowledge, skill; do the plumbing;

are in charge of a whole company; bake bread, buns; check tickets on a train; make up computer programmes; control or give orders to others; control a business; preside at a meeting; fly a plane.

7. Work with your desk-mate and say how quick you can do the following things.

Type the letter, print a word document, install a computer program, make coffee, fill in a form, write CV, make a contract, write business letter, buy a present for my co-worker, phone my foreign partner, water flowers in my office.

8. Work as a class and match the following verbs with nouns:

to apply for to be at to offer to dismiss from to hold to advertise for to make to work

work job position / post promotion vacancy visa overtime / shifts application

9. Match the following Russian and English word combinations:

work conditions, work experience, employment book (record), employment office, family income, income tax, application form, written request, retire, be sacked / dismissed;

доход (бюджет) семьи, заявление (о приеме на работу), уйти на пенсию, быть уволенным, трудовая книжка, письменная просьба, трудовой стаж, зарплата, условия труда, подоходный налог.