Mind the vocabulary

CHOOSING

a Career:

The World of Jobs

Mind the vocabulary

• Profession – is an occupation in which special education is required (doctor, architect…)
• Job – is the work that a person does regularly in order to earn money.
• Job application – is a special formal letter to apply a position (job).

1.Have you ever thought about your future career? Have you made any decision?   2.What do your parents and friends advise you to do as a job?   3.Would you prefer to work with your hands or with your brain? Are there any jobs you would or wouldn’t like to do? What are they?   4.What do you fell about working with people? Name some occupations where you work with people.   5. Would you like to work with machines? Name some jobs where you work with machines.  

6.Is it important for you how well-paid your future job is going to be? What is more important – to have a well-paid but not very interesting job or a job that interests you but is less paid? Explain why?   7. Is it important for you to have a prestigious job? What jobs are prestigious nowadays?   8. What are you good at? Are you good at the things you like doing? Do you think these activities can help you in your future career?   9.Is it important for you to have a good career? What do you have to do to make a good career? What do people mean when they say “to make a good career”?    

Questionnaire

• How many professions do you know
• more than 5
• more than 10
• more than 15?
• What professions are the most prestigious nowadays?
• What professions do you think are needed
• in your town
• in your country?
• Have you made your choice of a job?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen job?

Ways of Getting Information about Jobs

Parents, Teachers, Friends

JOB ? Example of Former School Leavers

Mass Media

Traditional jobs

№ п/п	Jobs	Primarily done by men	Primarily done by women	Done by both men and women	Requiring a graduate degree
1	teacher		+		+
2	doctor		+		+
3	postman		+
4	builder	+
5	pilot	+
6	butcher	+
7	surgeon	+			+
8	singer			+
9	journalist			+	+
10	firefighter	+
11	vet			+
12	dentist			+
13	engineer			+	+

Unusual jobs

Unusual jobs.

Merchant dreams.

Postal clerk dreams of becoming a one-night a great actor. Businessman wants to manage the multi-ton structure. How to make their dreams a reality? One of the companies involved in the Chicago incarnation of the life of any fantasies and desires of their clients. All you need is to come into their office and tell what you dream and pay the amount that you would call experts. However, remember that the minimum cost of a dream come true is $ 150,000.

Professional standing in the queue

Interlocutor

Rescuer of coconuts.