Employment

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Exercise 3.

1)Describe the process of looking for a job by British students.

2) Give an example of such a process from the text.

3) Say how Russian students usually find their jobs.

Exercise 1. You will hear a telephone message, containing the information about an applicant for the job. Write down the missed information, use figures, words or word-combinations.

A. Name _________________________

B. Age __________________________

C. Education ______________________

D. Language ______________________

E. Last job _______________________

F. Character: confident and __________

G. Telephone _____________________

Exercise 2. You will here a story of a teacher. While listening choose the correct variant of the ending of each sentence.

1. The narrator was afraid that her students wouldn’t accept Daniel because he

1. acted strangely 2. wore poor clothes 3. had bad manners

2. According to the narrator the residents of the village

1. were fabulously rich 2. were well-to-do 3. lived in misery

3. Daniel came up to Charles during the game to

1. encourage 2. show him how to hit the ball 3. tease him

4. The narrator thought that her students

1. were gentle most of the time 2. could be indifferent at times 3. could be cruel at times

5. When Daniel gave his Christmas gift to the narrator she

1. was taken aback 2. was disappointed 3. got fairly excited

6. the narrator thinks of Daniel

1. only at Christmas 2. once in a while 3. very often

7. The narrator’s daughter loves her mother’s story about Daniel because she

1. can do the end of the story herself 2. admires Daniel’s personal qualities

3. knows Daniel has become successful

Exercise 1. Read the text, state the main idea of the text and headline it.

The greater part of promising students studying in industrialized countries does not return home upon graduation and stay on there. Besides, most intelligent people, especially scientists, wishing to make more money and improve their living and working conditions go to other countries.

Afro-Asian and Latin American countries as well as Central European countries in transition lose lots of skilled specialists annually. Western powers drawing numbers of specialists out of poorer countries benefit a lot. For example, in some years, the profits received by US corporations from the use of Third World experts exceeded their "aid for development". Russian students engaged in research at universities want to continue it upon graduation.

Exercise 1. Read the text and give the gist of the article.

Britain has a lower level of unemployment than any other major European Union (EU) country. The total workforce is almost 30 million. Features of the labour market include the growing proportion of women in the workforce and increases in part-time and temporary employment among both women and men.

"Teleworking" — working from home using information technology - is also becoming more widespread, for example, in journalism, consultancy and computer programming.

About 3.3 million people are self-employed in Britain. The sectors with the highest concentrations of self-employed people are agriculture and con­struction.

Britain now has one of the least regulated labour markets among the major industrialized nations. The aim of the government is to create an economic climate in which business can flourish. It is done by increasing the flexibility of the labour market, by removing regulations which have restricted job creation, by encouraging better training and by tax policy.

Exercise 2. Compare the situation with the situation in Russia.

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