Career Choice. My Future Profession

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Career Choice
My Future
Profession
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2.

To learn new words
To reinforce new words
TASKS
To read the text “My future profession”
To work out the text “My future profession”

3.

1. Find the definitions of the words.
PROFFESSION
CAREER
OCCUPATION
JOB
Use the site:
www.merriamwebster.com
WORK
TRADE

4.

is a job that requires special training, often a
university education and brings rather high social
status
profession
Is the activity in which one exerts
strength or faculties to do or
perform something
is the series of jobs that a
person does in his or her
life usually in one field
work
job
career
trade
occupation
is a job or profession
Is the work that a
person does regularly in
order to earn money
is an occupation
requiring manual or
mechanical skill

5.

2. Answer the questions.
1. Where can people look for a job?
2. Who and what can help you to make your professional choice?
3. What are the most popular and important jobs at the 21st
century?

6.

3.Write down the new words at page 26-27. Find the
transcription of the underlined words.
To choose (chose, chosen)
To make a choice
Rather than
Figure
Opportunity
Enterprise
Well-paid job/work
To qualify for
Educational level
A good command of a foreign
language
Experience
Background knowledge
To gain
Sufficient
Native speakers
Lazy
Employer
Account
Manager
PR specialist
Prestigious job/work
Entrepreneur, businessman
State-employed
White-collar worker
Blue-collar worker
Skilled worker
Unskilled worker
To look for a new
job/work/position
To retire
To be unemployed

7.

The work with the text
Read the title of the
text at p.25. Tell what
this text is about.
Предтекстовый
этап
Read the new words
and the title of the text
and define the genre
of the text

8.

The work with the text
Sort the sentences in the logical order:
1.
2.
Read the text, define the title for each
of the paragraph.
3.
1.
2.
4.
3.
4.
5.
One more factor which really helps to have a
good command of English is the
communication with native speaker.
The only opportunity to gain the practical
knowledge of the subject is to work
somewhere during the summer vacation.
I would like to work with people rather than
with figures and numbers.
English only is not enough.
Choosing your future profession or trade is a
difficult choice.
Find English equivalents:
Будущая профессия, трудный выбор, мои
планы на будущее,
работать заграницей,
уровень образования, летние каникулы,
международный деловой язык, нанимать.
Текстовый этап
Read the text and make the plan of
the text

9.

The work with the text
Послетекстовый этап.
• Answer the questions:
1. Is it difficult to choose the future profession?
2. What do the author of the text want to do in her
future life?
3. What skills does a person need to work as a
travel guide?
4. How can you improve your English?
5. What kind of employees do enterprises need

10.

Do exercise 1 at page 27 and fill in the table.
-er/-or
Do exercise 2 at page 27.
-ist
-cian

11.

Translate the sentences.
1. It is difficult to make a career choice.
2. She would like to work with children rather than
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
with figures and numbers.
It is a good opportunity for him to work for a
foreign enterprise.
It is difficult to qualify for this work.
Some secondary schools give good background
knowledge.
One of the opportunities to have a good command
of a foreign language is to speak to a native
speaker.
The firm needs a very skilled worker.
My brother is looking for a new job.

12.

What associations with the word “design” do you have?
Complete the word web
design

13.

Make the project.
21st century worker.
Plan:
1. Name 10 the most popular jobs in the
21st century.
2. Choose 5 of them and name persons
traits of character needed for these
jobs.
Not less than 5 slides.
Don’t forget about the title slides.

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