Choosing Your Future Profession

Choosing Your Future Profession

1. Task: choose the necessary word.

1. When pupils turn 16 they have to leave … school.

a. secondary; b. primary; c. infant

1. I’ll have many … when I make good grades at GCSE.

a. reputation; b. options; c. satisfy

1. Are there many professional … in Russia you can work in?

a. suits; b. fields; c. correct.

1. I can work in s … field because I am interesting in knowing how and why things work.

a. nature; b. artistic; c. scientific.

1. Is there any state system of giving jobs to those who … from universities in Britain?

a. career; b. suitable; c. graduate.

1. What jobs are … for men? Name them, please.

a. suitable; b. factors; c. attitude.

1. Most British people prefer to work in home … . They are home-loving nation.

a. ambitious; b. conservative; c. area.

1. Is money an important … when men or women try to choose a job?

a. factor; b. worst; c. highly.

1. I think that a nurse in a hospital is not a highly … job.

a. paid; b. salary; c. opinion.

1. Are … jobs paid well?

a. receive; b. part-time; c. average.

1. How do teenagers in Russia earn their … money?

a. save; b. experience; c. pocket.

1. My parents think it is important to have work … beforehand.

a. experience; b. interview; c. application

1. I know that before you get a job you must have an interview. I find it a bit … .

a. behave; b. nerve-racking; c. appear.

1. When you have a job interview, take a … with you so that you remember what to say.

a. briefly; b. direct; c. checklist.

1. Many students have decided to bring their own … lunch rather than eat in the canteen.

1. packed; b. awful; c. annual.

1. Task: Supply the suitable words.

1. A person whose job is to keep and examine the money accounts of business or people is called … .
2. A person who plans new buildings and sees that they are built properly is called … .
3. A person who practices or works in one of the fine arts is called … .
4. A person who is skilled at making and repairing wooden objects is called … .
5. A scientist who specializes in chemistry is called … .
6. A person who prepares and cooks food is called … .
7. A person professionally trained to treat the teeth is called … .
8. A person who works at a dock is called … .
9. A person who drives a car is called .. .
10. A person who plans and understands the making of machines, roads, bridges is called … .
11. A person who owns or plans the work on a farm is called … .
12. A person who changes speech from one language into another is called … .
13. A person whose profession is journalism is called … .
14. A person whose business is to advise people about laws and to represent them in court is called … .
15. A worker in a mine is called … .
16. A person who performs on a musical instrument, or who writes music is called … .
17. A person qualified to practice both medicine and surgery is called … .
18. A person who studies physics is called … .
19. A person who flies an aircraft is called … .
20. A member of a navy, or a sailor on a ship, who is not an officer is called … .
21. A person who makes or repairs shoes is called … .
22. A worker in iron or other metals is called … .
23. A man who serves passengers on a ship or plane is called … .
24. A person who makes garments (одежда) for men is called … .
25. A person who changes writing from one language into another is called … .
26. A person whose job is to weave cloth is called … .

For help: a) dentist, b) shoemaker; c) artist; d) tailor; e) accountant; f) driver; g) seaman; h) architect; i) physician; j) chemist; k) smith; l) docker; m) translator; n) farmer; o) carpenter; p) lawyer; q) steward; r) weaver; s) journalist; t) cook; u) physicist; v) interpreter; w) pilot; x) miner; y) musician; z) engineer.

1. Using the word expressions write what people of different professions do.

Example: A model is a person who shows new clothes.

Show new clothes bring food in restaurants

Put out fires repair machinery

Help to run a company mend broken cars

Build new houses write stories for newspapers

Grow fruit and vegetables sing songs

Look after people’s teeth design buildings

Sell things work in an office

Look after sick people make bread

Fly planes cure sick animals

IV.

Найдите названия профессий:

Doctor, pilot, actor, artist; engineer; actress; farmer; scientist; secretary; teacher; singer; composer; writer; dancer; spaceman; driver; turner; chemist; fitter; vet

1. 1.a; 2.b; 3.b; 4.c; 5.c; 6.a; 7.c; 8.a; 9a; 10b; 11c; 12a; 13b; 14c; 15a
2. 1e;2h;3c;4o;5j;6t;7a;8l;9f;10z;11n;12v;13s;14p;15x;16y;17i;18u;19w;20g;

21b;22k;23q;24d;25m;26r.