Unit 3. How to Be a Success.

Study the vocabulary.

ability –способность

achievement – достижение

attitude – отношение (к чему-либо)

cash – наличные деньги

competition – соревнование

confidence – уверенность

cooperation – сотрудничество

disappointment – разочарование

experience – опыт

explanation – объяснение

fair – честный

influence – влияние

opening – вакансия

promotion – повышение, продвижение по службе

rapport – взаимоотношения, взаимопонимание

success/succeed/successful/successfully – успех/преуспевать/успешный/успешно

to apply – обращаться, подавать заявление

to depend on – зависеть (от чего-либо)

to express – выражать (эмоции/мысли)

to face – сталкиваться (с чем-либо)

to get along with – уживаться, ладить с людьми

to measure – измерять

to occur – происходить

How is success measured? Happiness. Achievement. Influence. Cash. However it is measured, it takes more than luck to come by. Success is almost always hard-earned. Yet the journey begins with a step. The first step toward success is confidence – belief in your ability to succeed. Working or looking for work – keep confident!

Good relations with your boss and other employees, or rapport, show a positive attitude toward work. Working together and getting along with others is called cooperation. Cooperation builds friendships. Cooperation depends on the ability to communicate with others, even at difficult moments. It is not always easy – for example, when your boss makes a decision with which you do not agree. Being cooperative is a key role of any manager.

But everyone also faces competition in their lives. Competition means a situation when people or organizations try to be more successful than other people or organizations. For example, you’ve been working for a company for three years. An opening occurs for a promotion to a higher position. You apply and you are considered but do not get the job. It is given to a co-worker who was more recently hired and younger than you. Does it mean your colleague is more successful than you? How will you speak to your boss about your feelings? Will you express your disappointment? Will you ask for an explanation? Will you mention that you have more experience than anyone else in the company? Anyway, make it clear to your boss that you will continue to cooperate. Fair competition is a normal thing in business. Live and learn, and next time you will be a success!

Exercise 1. Match the words with their definitions.

1. success

2. confidence

3. competition

4. cooperation

5. rapport

1. a feeling that you can trust a person or a thing;

2. working together for a purpose;

3. relationship in which people have a special ability to understand each other’s point of view;

4. the achievement of something you have been trying to do;

5. a situation in which people or organizations try to be more successful than other people.

Exercise 2. Put the words into the correct order to make a sentence.

1. Have, you, to, hard, to, earn, work, success.

2. Along, others, getting, called, with, is, cooperation, together, working, and.

3. To, your, communicate, depends, cooperation, other, on, ability, people, with.

4. Impossible, it, to, is, competition, avoid.

5. Business, normal, a, competition, fair, is, thing.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions on the text.

1. How can you define success?

2. Why is confidence important?

3. What do good relations with your boss and colleagues show?

4. What is cooperation?

5. What is competition?

Exercise 4. Look at the adjectives below. They are often used to describe people’s personality and behavior. Put them into the correct place in the table below. Use a dictionary if necessary.

Hard-working, unhelpful, generous, hands-on, dishonest, disorganized, ambitious, uncooperative, stressed

positive	negative
calm
	mean
honest
	lazy
helpful
	lacking in drive
organized
	hands-off
cooperative

Exercise 5. Use the adjectives above to complete the sentences.

1. I never get angry. I’m a very ___ person.

2. Junita can’t find the files she needs. She’s so ___.

3. I don’t really trust him. He seems to be a bit ___.

4. Robert is working his way up the career ladder. He’s very ___.

5. Angela is a very ___ person. She gives 15% of her salary to charities.

6. Craig just won’t lift a finger. He’s a very ___ man.

7. Hans never leaves the office until his day’s work is finished. His colleagues all say he’s the most ___ man in the company.

8. Pat won’t do anything for other people. She’s the most ___ woman I know.

9. Olaf likes his employees to make their own decisions. His style of management is very ___.

10. Sandra has three small children and a full-time job. She is quite ___, although she doesn’t show it.

Exercise 6. Listening. Track 1.46 Listen to Alan at a job interview. The interviewer asks him to describe himself. Which four adjectives does Alan use?

Exercise 7. Fill in the table with the correct form of the words.

Noun	Adjective
adventure	adventurous
1)	ambitious
2)	decisive
3)	financial
flexibility	4)
luck	lucky
5)	organized
6)	pioneering
success	7)
8)	stressful

Exercise 8. Read the text about how to be a successful business owner. Fill in the spaces using the correct word from the table above.