Задание 1. Произнесите слова за диктором и выучите их.
Vocabulary:
to finish school- заканчивать школу
career- карьера
to face some problem- сталкиваться с проблемами
inclinations and interests- наклонности и интересы
prestigious- престижный
to bring up children- воспитывать детей
to do my best- стараться
patience- терпение
Задание 2. Прочтите текст и переведите.
Choosing a career and getting a job are two of the most important things any person does in his life. Before young people finish school all of them think that they will choose a profession they want. But later all of them understand that choosing a profession or a career is a very serious problem. So when young people leave school, they face that problem. If pupils want to achieve their purpose, they should use the opportunity for promotion in the early age. The young people have to know that if they don’t think about their future life earlier, it will be too difficult to think about it later.
There are several factors that influence the decision of young people to make their choice. They concern material and spiritual aspects of the future profession. It is generally believed that professions should be both prestigious and interesting. Everybody wants to get some benefits from the social privileges provided by the profession. At the same time other factors are important. Much depends on the inclinations and interests of the person. Besides, the profession of the parents often in this or that way influences the future profession of their children. Today we have dynasties of physicians, historians, lawyers, economists, pilots and military officers. It is impossible to forget about the material aspect of the future profession. It indicates the level of the society’s values. Today all professions can be classified as prestigious or not prestigious. The problem of prestige is subjective. All the professions are very useful.
Today the most popular professions are lawyers and economists. These professions are prestigious. After graduating from Law and Economist Faculties it is possible to find good jobs. To be a designer is attractive too. This profession can fit creative people who know how to mike things around them look nice. For those young adults who choose the profession of a chemist, a mathematician or a physicist the determinant factor is not prestige but interesting. To be a biologist is very prestigious today, because the biologist is at the forefront of cloning. I think that to be a sociologist or psychologist very interesting and useful too. Psychologists try to help people to cope with their spiritual problems. Sociologists study the health of the society.
One of the most fashionable and prestigious professions today is that of computer programmer. Although computers came into our life only in the 1960s they quickly gained around of the contemporary society having become its indispensable part.
There are a lot of interesting and useful professions. But I am going to become a teacher. I suppose my future profession to be one of the most important nowadays. My future specialty is English (History, Literature …). I love children very much and to become a teacher has been my dream since my early childhood. To teach and to bring up children is the most important and noble thing, to my mind. I am eager to get the proper education to be able to do my best to teach my future pupils. I'll try not only to help them to master it. I'll try to help them to become good and clever people, to be honest, kind and noble. Children are our future and I want them to be really good and educated people. Of course, the profession of a teacher is not an easy one. It demands a lot of knowledge, a lot of tenderness of feeling and sometimes a lot of patience. But I hope that I'll be a good teacher and my pupils will like me and my subject.
Задание 3. Ответьте на вопросы. Answer the following questions:
- Was choosing your future profession the most important thing for you?
- Who(m) did you dream to be when you were a child? a teen?
- Will you become a teacher?
- What is a typical salary for a school teacher in Russia?
- Do you know about a CV?
- Do you know what information you should include in a CV?
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