Unit 1 Professions

• Reading and speaking

You are going to read about profession.

Pre-reading task

1) Check the meaning of these words in your dictionary.

educational (v) turner (n)

occupations (n) repairing (n)

vocational assembling (n)

trade (n) facilities (n)

fitter (n) treatment (n)

lawyer(n) skill (n)

2 ) Read the words and word - combinations with the translation.

To study well — вчитися добре

A good education – хороша освіта

Must decide - повинні вирішити

We must choose - ми повинні вибрати

To choose the occupation - вибирати фах

A vocational school - ПТУ

A technical secondary school - технікум

Many trades - багато професій

A technician-technologist - технік-технолог

At the institute you may get the profession of an engineer - в інституті ви можете

отримати професію інженера

То go on your education - продовжити навчання

То be a highly qualified and good specialist - бути високо кваліфікованим і

хорошим спеціалістом

Reading

Read the text and translate it

Professions

It's very important to study well and to get a good education. We must decide what to do after finishing the school. We must choose what occupation to have, where to go to study.

An occupation is an activity of any kind for which a person has the necessary qualifications and training.

Many roads are open for us. After the ninth form we may go to a vocational school, a technical secondary school or to the 10^th form. After finishing the school we may go also to a vocational school, to go to work.

There are many interesting trades. All of them are important and useful. Vocational schools teach all kinds of trades for example: bus-driving, tram-and-trolley-bus driving, repairing radio and television sets, repairing refrigerators, dress-making, fitter, turner, shop assistant and others.

At the technical secondary school you may get the profession of a technician in repairing and assembling facilities (of the factory, of the computers), of a technologist in sugar and food industry, technician-technologist in treatment of materials.

At the institutes you may get the profession of a teacher, a doctor, an engineer, a journalist, a lawyer.

You may finish a school and work a year or two and then go on your education. All professions are necessary. But in our time of progress and competition it is very important to be a highly skilled and good specialist.

Post-reading task

a) Ask different kinds of questions to the parts of sentences given below.

b) Ask as many questions as you can to get more information from the sentences given below. (Consult Grammar References).

It is very important to get a good education.

All professions are necessary.

There are many interesting trades.

It is very important to be a highly qualified and good specialist.

Speaking

Work in pairs.

1. Ask your friend about his decision to choose the profession.

1) Where did you come from?

2) What school did you finish?

3) How did you study?

4) Why did you choose this technical school to enter?

5) Did you enter after the ninth or eleventh form?

6) Who influenced your choice?

7) Did your parents support you or were against?

8) What are you going to be?

2. Make up a dialogue about your decision to choose a profession.

3. Be ready to tell about your decision to choose your profession.

Reading

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