Choosing a profession

Task 1

Match the question with the answer.                                                                                                                      

1) Where do your parents work?                        A) I d rather not say.

2) Do you need any special training?                 B) Oh yes, I suppose so.

3) Have you ever worked?                                   C) I d like to.

4) Why do you want this job?                             d) At the medical equipment plant.

5) Are you free to start working for our            e) No, never.

firm immediately?                                                F) I work for a publishing company.

6) How much do you earn?                                 G)You’ll have to check the bills

7) What do you do for a living?                          H) Certainly, Shall I come tomorrow morning?

8) What does the job involve?                             I) It’s part-time job, and it suits me perfectly.

9 )Is it a very demanding job?

Task 2

Find a sentence from the list on the right which paraphrases a sentence on the left. You will not need to use all the sentences on the right.

1) Are you in charge of recruitment?    A) Why did you resign?

2) What do you do for a living?                                                                

3) Is it a very rewarding job?                B) What do you have to do exactly?

3) Do you get any extra profit?            C) Where do you live?

4) Why did they ask you?                      D) What benefits are there?

                                                                   E) Why did they employ you?

6) Is it a very demanding job?               F) Is it a very satisfying job?

7) What does the job involve?              G) Do you need any special training?

8) Why did you hand in your notice?   H) What is your job?

9) How much do you earn?                   I) Is it very hard work?

10) Is it a skilled job?                              J) What is your salary?

11) Why did they take you one?          K) Why were you dismissed?

12) Are you a freelancer?                      L) Do you get paid for overtime?

Task 3

Look through the list of the occupations and answer the questions

Which is the most interesting ?

Which is the most boring?

Are any of them damaging to society?

Which is the best paid?

Which is the most dangerous?

Which is the most useful to society?

Which is the least useful to society?

Which is the most difficult?

Task 4

Complete the questions with the appropriate words from the list and ask your partner to answer them.

a) careless

b) nature

c) disappear

d) interference e)ecological

f) consequences

1)Is  …   the source of peoples life?

2)Has man’s   …  in nature increased with the development of civilization ?What has led to it?

3)Why did some special of animals ,birds, plants … from the Earth?

4)What is the result of man’s … interaction with nature?

5)What are the… of the Chernobyl ecological disaster ?

6)Is international cooperation necessary to create  a system of  …security?