Can you answer these general knowledge questions about work?

1) What are normal working hours of most office jobs in your country?

2) Can you name three jobs that get very high salaries in your country?

3) When you start paying income-tax in your country, what is the minimum amount you have to pay?

4) What jobs often involve shiftwork? (Give at least two examples.)

5) Is flexi-time common in your company or your country?

15. Fill in the crossword with the names of different jobs and professions:

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1) двірик 2) програміст 3) сміттяр 4) агент у справах продажу нерухомості 5) юрист 6) лоточник 7) гід 8) лікар 9) тесля

10) біржовий маклер 11) професор 12) геолог 13) фізик 14) стюардеса 15) чоловічий кравець 16) кухар 17) бухгалтер 18) державний службовець

16. Speak on the following questions:

· Have you already chosen your future profession? What do your parents and friends think about it? Why do they think so?

· Can you say that your choice of your future profession was influenced by the subjects at school that you study/studied? By the teachers who teach/taught you?

· How many jobs and professions have you changed in dreams since you were a child?

· Could you say that your parents’ occupation may influenced your choice of a future profession? Yes/No. How?

· What profession in your opinion are considered to be more or less prestigious nowadays? Why?

· What knowledge and skills in your opinion are necessary for any job or profession?

· Do you believe that people are born for this or that profession? Yes/No. Give examples.

Think about your own job. Can you explain your responsibilities and duties in English?

You have just bought a piece of land and you are planning to build a house on it. Write down at least six people from previous exercises that you may need to help you. What would you need their help for?

Example: a bricklayer to build the wall

Write and discuss a list of friends, relatives and neighbours (just choose people who have jobs). Can you write down what each person does?

Example: My uncle Jim is an engineer. His wife is an accountant.

GRAMMAR (PASSIVE VOICE)

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