Professions

VOCABULARY

UNIT 6 JOB

Questions for Reproduction

Discuss the following questions in groups and use them as a plan to make your final monologue on the topic.

SPEAKING

Write an essay to comment on one of the following quotations.

WRITING

1. Richard M. Nixon said: "I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
2. George Orwell said: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
3. Howard Cosell said: "Sports is the toy department of human life."
4. John Wooden said: "Sports do not build character. They reveal it”.

1. What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘sport’? 2. Why do so many people like sport? 3. Why are some people not interested in sport? 4. What’s the difference between sport and exercising? Which of them is healthier? Why? 5. How do you keep fit? How often do you exercise? 6. How do you find out about world sport events? 7. Do you prefer playing or watching sports? Do you prefer watching sports at the stadium, at home on TV, or in a bar on a giant screen? Why? 8. What sport experiences do you have? 9. Do you think sports stars have the best life? 10. Who is your favourite professional sport star? 11. What do you admire in him (her)? 12. What’s your favourite sport? 13. Which sport would you like to take up and why? 14. Would you like to play sport for a living? Support your answer with sound reasons. 15. How many hours of sport a week should children do at school? 16. Which sport(s) can you consider the world sport(s)? 17. What is your country’s national sport? Ноw can you participate in it? 18. What makes people interested in extreme sports? What’s your attitude to such sports? 19. Which sport has the best and most talented athletes?

a soldier

an engineer

a DJ

a company director

a surgeon

a ballet dancer

a doctor

a tour guide

a butcher

a farmer

a driver

a secretary

a sales assistant

a personal trainer

a cleaner

a waiter

a factory worker

a vet

a pilot

a snowboarder

a teacher

an archeologist

an au pair

a fashion designer

a model

a telesales person

a flight attendant

a cook

an actor

a lawyer

an accountant

Conditions:

working conditions

a decent salary

pay

income

pay rise

salary increase

a full time/part time job

to work full time/part time

a temporary/permanent job

a well paid/underpaid job

to apply for a job

an employer

an employee

to employ a staff

self-employed

unemployed/out of work

promotion

good prospects

a pension scheme

a paid holiday

to resign

to fire

to retire

Adjectives:

stressful

useful

nightmare

terrible

disgusting

experienced

Collocations:

to do a job

to study for a job

to find/to lose/to leave a job

to get a job as a waiter

to work as an au pair

to earn money

to get a holiday

to need training

to have a day off/a break

to make a living as an actor

to ask for advice/a pay rise/permission

to send a letter of application

to enclose a curriculum vitae (CV)

to reach retirement age

to be ready for a new challenge

to look forward to hearing

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