Not any more

Every year hundreds of thousands of people change their careers or update their skills. Engineers from the traditional manufacturing indus­tries are retraining in computer engineering, and more people are starting their own business.

A dramatic change was made re­cently by boxer Barry McGuigan, ex-featherweight champion of the world, who is giving up boxing to present programmes on BBC televi­sion. 'It'll be a lot easier on the face,' he explained.

Chris Tipping studied economics at Cambridge, considered working in a government office but then decided to make singing - his great love - his career. For five years he sang with the Westminster Abbey Choir and the BBC Singers. How­ever, finding it difficult to make enough money to support his family - he was married with two chil­dren - he became an assistant to a Member of Parliament. In this job he had to deal with many legal and tax problems and eventually decided to become a lawyer himself. Although he had to study for four or five hours every evening after work, he has no regrets. He is now

working as a lawyer in an office only two minutes from Westminster Abbey, where he still sings at week­ends.

David Robinson, 37, started life as a music teacher. He noticed that musicians often suffered from bad necks and backs, caused by sitting for long periods on uncomfortable chairs. After twelve years as a teacher he turned to selling furni­ture designed for healthy sitting. His company, 'Alternative Sitting', is doing well. 'It started as a hobby,' he said, 'rather than a conscious pre-planned decision. I needed a change and the stimulus of running my own business.'

Barbara Winton left the world of business. She started as a jewellery designer, did a secretarial course, became a secretary and moved, for a high salary, to an oil company, where she became a senior adminis­trator. After two years she left. 'I couldn't stand the falseness, selfish­ness and over-competitiveness of commerce,' she said, and now works as a homeopath, having com­pleted a four-year course at the London College of Homeopathy.

Задание 2. Соедините слова правой и левой колонки, чтобы получились сложные существительные и фразы.

1. nine - to- a time

2. working b tax

3. flexi- с wage

4. income d five

5. minimum e hours

Задание 3. Подберите к глаголам в левой колонке существительные из правой колонки.

1. earn a overtime

2. work b meetings

3. deal with с a shop

4. attend d complaints

5. run e £2,000 a month

Задание 4. Перепишите следующие предложения, начиная данными словами. Значение должно оставаться тем же самым.

Example I'm a banker.

I work in banking.

1 What do you do?

What's........................................................................

2 I'm employed by the government.

I work........................................................................

3 I earn $50,000.

My.......................................................................

4 I get £20,000 from my teaching job and another £10,000 from writing.

My total........................................................................

5 In my job I look after all the computers in the building.

My job involves........................................................................

6 I'm responsible for one of the departments.

I'm in........................................................................

Напишите вопросы к данным ответам.

A:.................................................? B: I start at nine and finish at four.

A:.................................................? B: Yes, a bit. On certain courses I work until 5.30.

A:..................................................? B: 12 weeks. That's one of the good things.

A:..................................................? B: Yes, we do, but we have to have a doctor's note.

Задание 5. Каким одним словом или фразой можно заменить каждое из этих предложений.

1 Money you borrow from a bank for your business.

2 What you must pay the bank if you borrow money.

3 The continuous increase in the price of things.

4 Total amount of money a company receives from selling its products.

5 When a company does not make a profit or a loss.

6 Money that a company spends on rent, electricity, paper, etc.

Задание 6. Вставьте в предложение пропущенные предлоги.

1 Sales rose.......................10% last year.

2 The stock market value fell....................240....................225 in the space of two days.

3 There was a rise.......................5% in the value of the shares.

4 The shares were £2.50 last week, but the value has just gone up 20p..................£2.70.

5 There has been a steady increase.......................the profit.

6 We had to pay over £5,000.......................interest.

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