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Lesson 9
Section I
Willing to Train
A.
True or False Questions.
Name: Catherine Hunt
Qualifications: 1. qualifications from
school, very good results
2.
certificates for ballet and for playing the piano
Interests: 1. tennis
2.
swimming
3. travelling
4.
talking to people
Intelligence:
reasonably intelligent
C.
Give brief answers to the following
questions
1.
Dancing and
music
2.
A
good
girl. A
bit lazy and disorganized
sometimes, but very bright.
3.
Be a teacher or a vet.
4.
Because
she
believes
that
Cathy
likes
working
with
young
children
and
looking
after
sick
animals.
5.
She wants to talk to Cathy, not her
mother.
6.
7.
8.
9.
No. she is bright enough
to be a vet and wants to find something different
from school work.
Y
es, if it
is for something useful.
Nursing,
because she has good qualifications in English and
Maths.
V
ery hard work, not
very pleasant sometimes.
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B.
Fill in the blanks with
information about Catherine based on her own
statement.
10.
At first she
is afraid she is not good enough. Later she thinks
she should enjoy that.
D.
Complete the following sentences.
1.
a little girl, very keen
on, a music teacher or something, to train for,
the right job
2.
to lessons, six, I suppose, for the
rest of, music, lonely
3.
France, the school choir, talking to
people, real interests
4.
being a hairdresser, people, do
something properly, very worthwhile
5.
do look after, looked after, run over
by a car, mind, too worried
Section II
Task 1: How Do Others Think of My Job?
A.
Fill in the following
chart.
Sex
Job
Stereotype of the Job
Speaker 1male
w
ork in Civil service
or Tax Office
grey
Speaker 2female
Manager of a
department
for nursing is a woman’s
job
Speaker 4male
B
ank manager stuffy,
bourgeois, funny
Speaker 5male
S
ales representativenot
dependable, wife in every port
Speaker
6female
Apprentice hairdresser
for dim girls
It’s a man’s
job
Speaker 3male
N
ursing officer in a
hospital
He should be a doctor,
B.
Give brief answers to the
following questions.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Clever,
artistic, very noisy.
To Mr. S.
Andrews.
The company does put Mr. or
Ms. In front of the names on its departmental list
Nursing.
Being
a
male
nurse,
he
has
more
contact
with
the
patients
and
a
long
term
responsibility for
their welfare.
5.
They
travel and have wife at every port.
6.
No.
7.
She is
learning a lot about hair and how to get along
with people and is gaining confidence.
8.
She will be able to start
her own business and earn five times as much as
the teachers.
Task 2: Job Stereotypes
A.
True or False Questions.
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B.
Multiple Choice.
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C.
Re-list the professions
in the survey, beginning with the one that the
children took as the most
favorite.
1. lawyer
6. civil engineer
7. electrical engineer
8.
mechanical engineer
9. Sales
representative
10. estate agent
2. accountant
3.
physicist
4. biologist
5. economist
D.
Blank-filling.
1.
“dirty job”, “low
status”, “subordinate”, take orders, give
orders
2.
interesting, well paid
Section III
Task 1: Learning
to Rephrase
1.
barter =
trading goods for goods
2.
past: seashells spices -- no value
money-- stated value
3.
because economic developments, trade
done in barter
4.
more
valuable currency-- hard c. less valuable - - soft
c.
5.
seller demand hard c.,
esp. from nation with hard c.
6.
inflation = abnormally rapid price
increase
7.
due
to scarcity
of
hard c.
in
some
nations
& world-wide
inflation,
payments
in
hard c.
be
supplemented by other types, e.g.
bartering
8.
the following:
example of bartering, consumer preferences in
beverages in USSR & USA
9.
Pepsi - Cola: 1st introduction unhappy
of cola to USSR, Coca- Cola
10.
Bartering presents serious difficult
problems
Task 2: Dictation
Passage 1: How to Make Wine
This
is
how wine
is
made
in
our winery.
After
the
grapes
are
picked
in
late
summer,
they
are
pressed so that all the juice runs out.
Then the juice is separated from the skins and
pips and it is
put into large
containers and left to ferment. Later, it is put
into smaller containers. Then it is left
for
about
a
year when
it
is
put
into
bottles.
If
it
is
a
good wine,
the
bottles
are
kept
for
several
years
but the cheaper wines are sold immediately.
Passage 2: Alan Simpson
The
mystery of the man found wandering in the city
centre has now been solved. The man, whose
name is now known to be Alan Simpson,
is a medical student. Mr. Simpson was taking part
in an
experiment
conducted
by
the
university
department
of
psychology,
when
he
walked
away,
unnoticed by the staff supervising the
experiment. He has now regained his memory, and
has left
hospital. Several people,
including his sister, April Simpson, telephoned
the police to identify Mr.
Simpson
after seeing his picture in the press.
Lesson 9
Catherine has just left school and she
wants to find a job. She and her mother have come
to speak
to the Careers Advisory
Officer.
Listen
to their conversation.
Officer: Oh, come in, take a seat. I'm
the Careers Officer. Y
ou're Cathy,
aren't you?
Mother: That's right. This is Catherine
Hunt, and I'm her mother.
Officer: How do you do, Mrs Hunt.
Hello, Catherine.
Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.
Officer: And
you'd like some advice about choosing a career?
Mother:
Y
es, she would. Wouldn't you,
Catherine?
Cathy: Y
es, Please.
Officer: Well,
just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How
old are you, Catherine?
Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's
almost nineteen. She'll be nineteen next month.
Officer: And
what qualifications have you got?
Mother:
Well,
qualifications
from
school
of
course.
V
ery
good
results
she
got.
And
she's
got
certificates for ballet and for playing
the piano.
Officer: Is that what you're interested
in, Catherine, dancing and music?
Cathy: Well ...
Mother: Ever since she was
a little girl she's been very keen on her music
and dancing. She ought
to
be
a
music
teacher
or
something.
She's
quite willing
to
train
for
a
few
more
years
to
get
the
right job, aren't you,
Catherine?
Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.
Mother: There
you are, you see. She's good girl really.
A
bit lazy and disorganized sometimes,
but
she's very bright. I'm sure the
Careers Officer will have lots of jobs for you.
Officer: Well,
I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are
many young people these days who can't
find the job they want.
Mother: I told you so,
Catherine. I told you shouldn't wear that dress.
Y
ou have to look smart to
get a job these days.
Officer: I think she looks
very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other
office for a moment
and look at some of
the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like
to see how we can help
young people.
Mother: Yes,
I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be
a very nice teacher. She could work
with
young
children.
She'd
like
that.
Or
she
could
be
a
vet.
She's
always
looking
after
sick
animals.
Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of
competition. Y
ou need very good results
to be a vet. This way,
Mrs. Hunt. Just
wait a minute, Catherine.
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Officer: There are just one or two more
things, Catherine.
Cathy: Do call me Cathy.
Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you
really interested in being a vet?
Cathy: Not really. Anyway,
I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent,
but I'm not brilliant.
I'm afraid my
mother is a bit over-optimistic.
Officer: Y
es, I
guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she,
your mum?
Cathy: A
bit. But she's very
kind.
Officer:
I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet
and music, are you?
Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to
lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I
suppose. But
I don't think I want to do
that for the rest of my life, especially music.
It's so lonely.
Officer: What do you enjoy doing?
Cathy: Well, I
like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to
France with the school choir last
year.
I
really
enjoyed
that.
And
I
like
talking
to
people.
But
I
suppose
you
mean
real
interests
—
things
that would help me to get a job?
Officer: No. I'm more
interested in what you really want to do.
Y
ou like talking to people, do you?