4.Read and translate the text: My Specialty.

I am a student of economics department. I choose this specialty because it is very topical today. Each firm, joint venture, industrial enterprise, educational establishment needs a skilled economist. Economics is linked with every sphere of our life. It is a study of how goods and services are produced and how they are distributed. Economics studies how the things people need and want are made and brought to them.

A skilled economist must know organization of industrial management, organization of labor and wages, organization and planning of production process. He has to be able to work out long-range and current plans of production, give scientific forecasting of branch developing.

So to become highly qualified economists the students of our department study special subjects: statistics, management, marketing, economics, accounting, industrial finance.

We write term papers on the problems of modern economics. We have vocational training at the enterprises of our town. The students work a lot to get knowledge and skills necessary for future economists.

After graduating from the college we can get higher education at any educational establishment of Ukraine and abroad. Economists can work at any enterprise, institution, joint venture, firm or company and make a contribution into the revival of Ukraine.

5. Answer the questions:

1. What is your specialty?

2. What special subjects do you study?

3. How does economist work?

4. Where will you work after graduating from the college?

5. Will you continue your education?

6. Use the words from the brackets to complete the text:

(Interview, section, qualification, CV, application, experience)

1. It isn’t easy to find a job. I look through the ______________in the local newspaper every week.

2. Everybody seems to want people with lots of ____________and I didn’t do well at school.

3. I’ve sent my _________to dozens of companies but nobody has got back to me.

4. I must have filled in about twenty _____________forms and I’ve only had one reply.

5. I went for an ____________but it didn’t go well-they wanted someone with more____________.

7. Mark the sentences p (positive) or n (negative):

He hasn’t got much self-confidence. He worries about what people think of him.

He’s always on top of his work. His desk is always tidy.

She’s very ambitious. She’ll be very successful one day.

He isn’t very reliable. He takes a day off sick every two weeks.

He is very flexible. He can adapt to most situations.

She’s a bit lazy. She doesn’t do anything if she doesn’t have to.

He’s extremely conscientious. He’s often here long after everyone else has gone

home.

She is very punctual. She’s never late for meeting.