Read and discuss the following text. Fill in correct preposition or particle, then make sentences

Fill in correct preposition or particle, then make sentences.

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.

Explain the underlined phrases and sentences in your own words.

Explain the words and word combinations in bold in the text.

Think long term

Surround yourself with the right people

Treat yourself

Do a reality check

Remember...

Employers are not on holiday either. They are still therein the office, ready and willing to hear from you. Okay, many of them may not have anything to offer you immediately. But some of them will. There are lots of employers who are recruiting right now. He stresses that "they have immedi­ate vacancies and they are looking for gradu­ates to fill them".

4. Bear in mind...

There аrе less people going for the jobs that are currently available. This means you have a bet­ter chance of getting one of them. So, while all your peers are away sunning themselves (damn it), they won't be in the running. By the time they are back, so will everyone else.

Remind yourself that nothing good comes easy. You will have setbacks. You will have to pick yourself up from. When you are feeling down, remind yourself that the vast majority of successful people had to struggle to get to where they are.

If you really have applied yourself and managed to achieve something then reward yourself for it. Take the day off, go out in the evening or get away for the weekend. Just make sure that when you return to the task of job hunting you give yourself another set of targets to work towards."

Seek out individuals who are positive and help­ful to you. Meet and talk with as many as possible. The more you do this the more you increase your chances of gain­ing good information and the right contacts."

Tell yourself that the timeand effort you are putting into your career is a sound investment. Tell yourself, too, that you are worth it And that you will eventually get what you deserve

career, carrier, extraordinaire, extraordinary, extraordinarily,aka, moisturise, moisturiser, employ, employer, employee, encouragement, respondents

5) Fill in the appropriate word(s) from the list below:

set, stay, moral, career, full-time, stand-up, gain, think,steal, resist, information, obvious, wisdom, vast,

­1) ……………. the temptation 2) ………..…… focused 3) words of ……….…… 4)……….. coach 5) …………….. comedian 6) steal ………………… 7)……………… distractions 8) ……………… job 9) …………….. support 10)…………….… majority 11) ……….. targets 12) gain­ …………….

13) ………… right contacts14)…………. long term

1) half ……. the respondents 2) take comfort ……….. smth

3) get prone ……. distraction 4) ……… all means

5) feel sorry ……….. smb/smth 6) team …….. …….. smb

7) seek ……… individuals 8) help­ful …….. smb

Have they Really Left the Building?

Your boss is on holiday, or so you think. The truth, writes Phillip Inman could well be very different.

Britain's managers are a sad and desperate bunch who spend their holidays think­ing about work. Nearly half of them go a step fur­ther and while on annual leave voluntarily give the office a call.

When they shake off the fear that without them everything is going wrong in the office they still find it hard to re­lax. More than four in 10 managers spend their holiday time dealing with outstanding paperwork and other chores such as visiting doctors or den­tists. These are the findings of a survey by the Chartered Management Institute, which asked 1,300 managers their atti­tude to holidays.

The institute said the figures showed managers were sacrificing holiday time in favour of their careers.

Christine Hayhurst, a director at the institute, says: "Longer working days have resulted in managers using annual leave to catch up on the tasks they used to fit in before or after work. Despite the emphasis on flexible working, it seems employers are also becoming less ac­cepting of staff taking time off work for routine appointments." Only half of ju­nior managers, for instance, take their full holiday entitlement.

Psychologist Oliver James says the in­stitute is swimming against the tide. "The fundamental force here is the Americanisation of the British work­force. When it comes to work you need to travel a long way to find a place as de­ranged as Britain and that place is America," he says.

Mr James, whose latest book, They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life, discusses the various tensions in domestic life, says managers are af­flicted by a move from a collectivist cul­ture to one that focuses on the individual. " Our identity is wrapped up in what we do. It is the job that is the source of our self esteem. What you do is crucial to what you have and that de­fines who you are. Consequently, you are defined by your job in a way that is still not true on the continent. A French or German manager will answer the ques­tion *who are you* by saying they are a fa­ther, mother or brother or pillar of the community rather than just quoting their job title.

"You've got to remember that 40% of British people meet their partner at work. It goes to show the extent to which work has intruded on our lives."

He says one of the problems faced by managers is the flexibility that is sup­posed to be their saviour. He says they were protected to some degree by a nine to five regime, but the introduction of flexible working often results in man­agers working long and unsocial hours.

"To hang on to your job you must be prepared to multi-task and work long hours. Because there is flexibility, on paper at least, it looks like the workaholic culture is self-induced; but if you don't join in you don't progress up the lad­der. "

The majority of managers have more than five weeks holiday each year. Those that take holidays are most likely to holiday in Europe. However, 41% of respondents say they will find a way to check their work emails wher­ever they are in the world.

The institute hopes to show employ­ers that letting managers take a complete break from work recharges their batteries and makes them more productive when they return to the of­fice. Managers believe they are doing the right thing by putting off chores until they can take holiday breaks and keeping in contact while they are away, says the institute, so employers must get the message across that ca­reers remain on track while managers are on holiday.

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