Theme 1 About myself and my future profession

This year is the crucial one in my life because Ihave left school. Before people leave school, they should understand that the time to choose their future profession has already come. It's not an easy task to make the right choice.

Someone goes further in his education and enter an institute, university or college. Others can start their working career or go into business. Usually there are a lot of universities and institutes in every big city. Our city is not an exception.

There are a huge number of professions to choose. But we should take our time while choosing our future career. Some teenagersmake their choiceaccording to their parents will, others do it in their own way and there are some boys and girls, who want nothing. Anyway it is a dilemma for all the family.

Fathers usually want their children to follow their footsteps. Mothers don't want their sons and daughters to leave the native town or city. So, sometimes they persuade their kids to enter local colleges. But only hard work and personal life experience can help us to find out the best from the best that is to separate the wheat from the chaff.

To make the right choice, we should consider our possibilities, character traits and routine aspects of the future job. To become a good doctor, you must be patient, easygoing and smart. A graduate from the MedicalAcademy may choose his place of work and occupation from a number of possible ones. He can be either a therapeutist or a surgeon; he can also be a dentist, apaediatrician, an emergency doctor, etc. As for me, I always wanted to become a doctor. I think it is a very prestigious and noble occupation. I was good at biology and zoology at school. I want to help people, who have health problems. I know that a doctor should be kind and attentive to people, honest and prudent. A doctor who is selfish and dishonest can't be successfulin his profession. So I’ll try to do my best to develop my personality this way.

More and more people realize now that every educated person should know a foreign language. That is why all students of our academy study one foreign language and Latin. For instance, I study English. I liked it from the first lesson we started learning it at school and it is still my favourite subject. English is to help us communicate with our foreign colleagues and comprehend English and American professional literature. Latin is considered to be the basis of international medical terminology so its importance for future doctors can scarcely be overestimated.

As a rule, young people should study five years at universities or institutes to become specialists. If you want a bachelor’s degree, you have to study four years. But medical student study six years. As your final exams have been passed, you get a diploma of a qualified specialist. Some students keep studying and enter post-graduate courses to follow an academic career. Some university graduates take up teaching and return to their Alma Mater as tutors.

So, choosing a career and then getting a job are two things any person does in his lifetime. If we don't think about the future, we won't have the one.

Task 1. Learn the following words and word combinations.

to leave school	[li:v][sku:l]	заканчиватьшколу
crucial		решающий
career		карьера
to go into business	[gəu]['ɪntə]['bɪznɪs]	занятьсябизнесом
ahugenumberof	[hju:ʤ]['nʌmbə]	огромное число (количество) чего-л.
to take one’s time	[teɪk][wʌnz][taɪm]	не спешить
dilemma	[dɪ'lemə]	дилемма, затруднительное положение
to follow smb.’s footsteps	['fɔləu]['futsteps]	следовать по чьим-л. стопам
to persuade	[pə'sweɪd]	убеждать, уговаривать
to consider	[kən'sɪdə]	считать, полагать
patient (n, adj.)	['peɪʃ(ə)nt]	пациент, больной; терпеливый
easygoing	['i:zɪˌgəuɪŋ]	легко ладящий с людьми
smart	[smɑːt]	разумный, умный
prestigious	[pres'tɪʤəs]	престижный
noble	['nəubl]	благородный, замечательный, выдающийся
attentive	[ə'tentɪv]	внимательный
honest	['ɔnɪst]	честный
prudent	['pru:d(ə)nt]	благоразумный, предусмотрительный
selfish	['selfɪʃ]	эгоистичный
dishonest	[dɪs'ɔnɪst]	нечестный
to develop	[dɪ'veləp]	развивать, совершенствовать
tocomprehend	[kɔmprɪ'hend]	понимать, постигать, осмысливать
bachelor’sdegree	['bæʧ(ə)lə]	степень бакалавра
post-graduate courses	[pəust'græʤuət][kɔːsəs]	зд. аспирантура
to graduate from	['græʤueɪt][frɔm]	заканчивать вуз
AlmaMater	[ælmə'meɪtə]	альма-матер, университет, в котором обучался говорящий или тот, о ком идёт речь (букв.лат. «кормящая мать»)
tutor (n)	['tju:tə]	преподаватель, руководитель группы (в университете)

Task 2.Find the following words and word-combinations in the text, reproduce the context they are used in and translate it into Russian.

1. leave school

2. to make the right choice

3. enter an institute

4. working career

5. a huge number of professions

6. make their choice

7. to follow their footsteps

8. hard work and personal life experience

9. to become a good doctor

10. I was good at

11. kind and attentive to people

12. every educated person

13. foreign colleges

14. international medical terminology

15. a diploma of a qualified specialist

Task 3.Answer the questions:

1. When do people understand that the time to choose future profession has already come?

2. What are the opportunities for school leavers?

3. Why should we take our time while choosing our future profession?

4. Do all teenagers choose their future professions in their own way?

5. Why do some parents persuade their kids to enter local colleges and universities or institutes?

6. What should we consider to make the right choice of profession?

7. How can we characterise a good doctor?

8. Why do we study foreign languages at universities? How can they help us?

9. How long should a person study to get a diploma of a qualified specialist?

10. What are the career opportunities?

Task 4.Match the English sentences to their Russian equivalents.

Young people should understand that the time to choose their future profession has already come.	Существует огромный выбор профессий.
Someone goes further in his education and enter an institute, university or college.	Можно стать терапевтом или хирургом, можно так же стать стоматологом, педиатром, реаниматологом.
There are a huge number of professions to choose.	Латинский язык считается основой международной медицинской терминологии, поэтому ее важность для будущих врачей вряд ли можно переоценить.
But only hard work and personal life experience can help us to find out the best from the best.	Молодые люди должны понимать, что уже пришло время выбирать профессию.
We should consider our possibilities, character traits and routine aspects of the future job.	Я хочу помогать людям, у которых есть проблемы со здоровьем.
He can be either a therapeutist or a surgeon; he can also be a dentist, apaediatrician, an emergency doctor, etc.	Чтобы стать специалистами, молодые люди должны проучиться пять лет в университете или институте.
I want to help people, who have health problems.	Кто-то продолжит свое образование и поступит в институт, университет или колледж.
Latin is considered to be the basis of international medical terminology so its importance for future doctors can scarcely be overestimated.	Мы должны учитывать свои возможности, черты характера и повседневные аспекты будущей работы.
Young people should study five years at universities or institutes to become specialists.	Некоторые студенты продолжают учиться и поступают в аспирантуру, чтобы продолжить научную карьеру.
Some students keep studying and enter post-graduate courses to follow an academic career.	Но только упорный труд и жизненный опыт могут помочь нам выбрать самое лучшее.

Task 5.Translate the given sentences into Russian, close your book and translate them back into English.

1. This year is the crucial one in my life because Ihave left school. It's not an easy task to make the right choice.

2. Someone goes further in his education and enter an institute, university or college. Others can start their working career or go into business.

3. There are a huge number of professions to choose. But we should take our time while choosing our future career.

4. To become a good doctor, you must be patient, easygoing and smart. A graduate from the MedicalAcademy may choose his place of work and occupation from a number of possible ones.

5. I want to help people, who have health problems. I know that a doctor should be kind and attentive to people, honest and prudent. So I’ll try to do my best to develop my personality this way.

6. All students of our academy study one foreign language and Latin. English is to help us communicate with our foreign colleges and comprehend English and American professional literature. Latin is considered to be the basis of international medical terminology.

7. Medical student study six years. When your final exams have been passed, you get a diploma of a qualified specialist.

8. Some students keep studying and enter post-graduate courses to follow an academic career.

9. Choosing a career and getting a job are two things any person does in his lifetime.

Task 6.Retell the text.