TOPICAL VOCABULARY. I. NOUNS. People’s occupations (professions): an agriculturist, an artist, a baker, a businessman, a book-keeper (an accountant)

I. NOUNS. People’s occupations (professions): an agriculturist, an artist, a baker, a businessman, a book-keeper (an accountant), a bricklayer, a builder, a butcher, a carpenter, a chemist, a chief, a clerk, a college graduate, a colonel, a composer, a conductor, a cook, a cosmonaut, a customer, a dentist, a dressmaker, a driver, an economist, an engineer, an eye specialist, a gardener, a fitter (a locksmith), a guide, a housewife, an interpreter, a journalist, a lawyer, a lecturer, a librarian, a linguist, a maid, a manager, a manicurist, a mechanic, a military man, a milk-maid, a musician, a nurse, an owner, a painter, a pensioner, a pianist, a pilot, a photographer, a physician, a physicist, a playwright, a plumber, a poet, a post-graduate, a postman, a professor, a research worker, a salesman, a saleswoman, a sailor, a scientific worker, a scientist, a servant, a shop-assistant, a shop-girl, a singer, a shoemaker, a soldier, a schoolboy, a schoolgirl, schoolchildren, a secretary, a smith (a blacksmith), a spaceman, a sportsman, a surgeon, a tailor, a teacher, a tennis-player, a tooth specialist, a tractor-driver, a trade union worker, a trainer, a turner, a typist, a worker (workman), a writer.

II. VERBS AND VERBAL COLLOCATIONS: act, bake, be against, be glad, be good at smth., be good at doing smth., be in (out), be (un)well, belong to smb., be married to smb., be on (a) pension, be born, be on sale, be tactful (have tact), bring up, build, call, choose, come from, compose, conduct (an orchestra), cook, correct a mistake, design, do research work, do an exercise, do lessons, drive a car (a tractor), feed, feel bad (good), follow (take) smb.’s advice (example), get married, go to sea, graduate from an institute (a college, a university), grow crops, have a (bad) cold, have a break, have a smoke (swim, talk), introduce smb. to smb., keep business accounts, look after smb., make a dress (a suit), make good progress in smth., make a mistake, make a good teacher (sportsman, etc.), make money, marry smb., master a profession, mean, miss smth., smb., miss a mistake, must, name, nurse, own, paint smth. white (blue, etc.), play a game, play the piano (the guitar, the violin), (mis)pronounce, raise smth., raise animals, repair (put smth. right), respect, retire from one’s work, sail, serve, say smth. to smb., sell, skate, ski, strike (a match), study at (a) college, study at an institute, study at the university, take care of smb., train (teachers, etc.), teach smb smth., treat (cure) smb., type, want, wish smb. smth., work (hard) at smth;

be good at languages, have a good command of the language (be quite at home with the language), speak a language well (fluently, fairly well, abominably), speak poor English (German), speak broken English, speak with a strong accent, be bilingual.

III. EVERYDAY PHRASES: What’s your occupation (profession)? What do you do for a living? I’m a bookkeeper by occupation. He works in the capacity of an engineer. He works in (at) an office.

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