10. Read the text and answer the questions.

Vocabulary:

an occupation – заняття, фах

to fill in - заповнювати

an official – службовець, офіційна особа

an official form - офіційний бланк

a skilled worker – кваліфікований робітник

a semi-skilled worker – напівкваліфікований робітник

an unskilled manual worker- некваліфікований робітник фізичної праці

a trade – професія, заняття, ремесло

a job – робота, служба, посада

on the one hand – з одного боку

on the other hand – з іншого боку

considerable - значний

mental skills – розумові (інтелектуальні) здібності

What do you do for a living? – Як ви заробляєте на життя?

Occupations, Professions, Trades.

An occupation is an activity of any kind for which a person has the necessary qualification and training. If you have to fill in an official form in Britain you will usually find the reading "Occupation", and if you are interviewed by an official he may ask you: "What's you occupation?" If he already has a general idea of the kind of work you do-whether you are a professional worker, a technician, a skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled manual worker - he may ask more specifically. "What's your profession?". "What's your trade?" or "What's your job?" In ordinary everyday conversation, a person who wants to know someone's occupation will simply ask: "What's your job?", "What do you do for a living?", "What's Mr. Jones?", "What does Steve do?"

There are three main groups of occupations: professions, trades, and jobs.

Traditionally, profession is an occupation which requires mainly intellectual work and a long period of higher education at a university or an academy. Thus, we speak of the medical profession, the teaching profession, the profession of an engineer and so on.

A trade is an occupation which demands a high Level of manual skill and a certain period of practical and theoretical training. Mechanics, electricians, fitters, turners, tailors, weavers, hairdressers, etc. have learned a trade.

Many occupations are neither trades nor professions. We often call these occupations "jobs". In this sense, the term job includes both unskilled and semi­skilled manual occupations on the one hand and occupations which require considerable knowledge and mental skills on the other hand. The dividing lines between trades, jobs and professions are by no means always clear.

Answer the questions.

1. What’s an occupation?

2. What do people say in ordinary conversation if they want to know someone’s occupation?

3. What’s a profession?

4. What’s a trade?

5. What examples of trades are given in the text?

6. What sorts of occupations does the term “job” include?

IX. There are a number of terms and abbreviations that you need to know before you can make sense of want ads. Look through some abbreviations.

aft. — afternoon ins. —insurance

agcy. —agency lie. —license

avail. —available mfg. —manufacturing

beg. —beginning min. —minimum

bene. —benefits pd. —paid

des. —desired pos. —position

ed. —education pref. —preferred

eve. —evenings p/t — part-time

exc. —excellent req. required

f/t -full-time sal. salary

grad. —graduate trng. training

incl. —including/ included 20K - $20,000 per year

Try to translate or to guess the examples of some ads.

DRIVER Lie. req. Must work aft. & eve. Sal. and tips. Ins. and other bene, provided. 757-0853.

SECRETARY Pos. avail for high school grad. With exp. sal. 20K incl pd. vacation and ed. bene. Must wk. f/t and some eve. 569-7588.

P/T CLERK Mfg. co. will provide trng.

Beg. min. wage. Exp. pref. Hrs. 2—6 aft. 477-3745.