Great British Jobs and New Occupations

ORAL EXAMINATION 1)Examination Themes

1.Talk on: Living to Work, or Working to Live /A Life or a Career?

1)How to achieve a balance of work – life?

2)Workaholism – positive/negative aspects. The root of the problem, if it is a problem.”Burn-out Syndrome”

3).What is “rat race “? Why do some people accept the fast pace of life and competition and others reject them altogether?

4)What is downshifting?

5)Comment: “Some people for the sake of getting a living, forget to live”(Margaret Fuller,US journalist and essayist)

16)Comment: “A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell”(G.B.Shaw).

Great British Jobs and New Occupations

1.Why are these jobs still retained/kept by the British?

2.What’s particular about each of them?

3. What are advantages and disadvantages?

4.Why do people stll take them up?

5. Give some names of New and Emerging Occupations(N&E) and say what do these people do? 6.Why do new occupations emerge? (shift from industrial to post-industrial age and new socio-economic environment: from manufacturing- to service-based economy? new challenges in all spheres of life and, production and knowledge? changing life style? result of increasing affluence? when haves(new rich) want to have more and of a different, best type /quality? the growing gap between the rich and the poor: the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? growing consumption in all spheres of life? new ideology – consumer populism? 7.Why are British dubbed a nation of butlers? 8. Interpret ‘assuming white gloves’? (not those who do dirty jobs?) Which new services are offered? How do the phrases ‘on-call’,’ bespoke service’ reveal their nature? 9.How did things with hired domestic help in Britain change in the second half of the 20^th century? 10.What do you think about hired domestic help in this country? Why do you think the demand has increased dramatically over the last ten years? Which jobs about the house are advertised?(The services of private tutors in different school subjects are much sought for governesses, nannies, child carers). Do you think it might become a regular practice rather than a luxury? Do you think domestic help in this country have their rights protected by professional trade unions? Are they paid hourly, daily,weekly,monthly? 11.Pros and cons of being paid hand-in-cash.

3.Talk on What One Needs for a Successful Career?(A Profile of the Careerist).

1)Why does the word “careerist’ offer a negative connotation

2)How can one rise in his profession? What skills does one need?

3)What are the stages of professional growth?

4)What about professions which require vocation?

5)What if one decided to change /was forced to change his profession at 40?

6)Did you ever set yourself a standard against which you might assess yourself to register any career progress?

4. Talk on How to Make Your Money/Savings Work;(How to Make Sense of Your Money/Savings.)

1)What choices are there in the currency and property market for a Belarusian to make their savings work for them? Advantages and disadvantages

of each.

2)Where can people have Belarusian rubles/local currency changed for foreign currency?

3)What is hard currency?

4)What’s happening to the almighty dollar at present? In whose hands is the destiny of the dollar placed?

5)How can the current problems of the EU influence the relations of the two competing currencies?

6)What are the prospects for the euro and the dollar in Belarus, of the Russian rouble?

7)How were the illegal foreign currency dealers stopped?

8)Why is real property thought to be of greatest profit if you have money to invest?

9)Can speculation money laundering be eradicated in this sphere?

10)What is another never-fading/failing value people invest money in uncertain times?

11)Where can you buy gold bullions/ingots?

12)On what condition would you feel it preferable to keep your money in a bank? What is the National Bank policy aimed at?

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