1.Salespeople need to be … to get people to buy their products.
2.A scientist has to be … in order to understand complex theories.
3.Receptionists should be … in order to make people feel welcome.
4.Surgeons must be very … as they should not make mistakes in their work.
5.A shop assistant has to be … even when dealing with a rude customer.
6.Lifeguards have to be … as they often find themselves in dangerous situations.
7.Teachers need to be very … as students sometimes take a long time to learn things.
8.Judges should be … and give all the evidence equal consideration.
9.Fashion designers should be very … so that they can come up with new designs.
What personal qualities are necessary for your future profession?
5.Answer the following questionnaire yourself and ask your friend to answer it.
1.Who helped you in choosing your future profession?
a) nobody b) my parents
c) my friends d) other
2.What is in your opinion the most important thing in your future profession?
a) good money b) much contact with people
c)regular promotions d)an ideal combination of a job and a hobby e) other
3.What skills are most important for your future profession?
a) people skills b) computer skills
c) managing skills d) observation skills
e) other
4.What attracts you in your future profession?
a) challenge b) risk and danger
c) regular work hours d) prestige
e) wages f) other
5.How much do you agree to study to get well-qualified in your profession?
a) as little as possible b) I got enough knowledge at school
c) as much as my boss requires d) all my life
6.Speak on the following questions.
1.Who influenced you in choosing your future profession?
2.Why did you decide to be a specialist in food technologies / in stock keeping?
3.What attracts you most in your future profession?
4.What do you know about technological processes in food industry / livestock breeding?
READING
Text. Living by the Sword.
1.Read and translate the following text.
When Cristina Sanchez told her parents she wanted to become a bullfighter instead of a hairdresser, they weren’t too pleased. But when she was eighteen her parents realised that she was serious and sent her to a bullfighting school in Madrid, where she trained with professionals.
Since last July, Sanchez has been the most successful novice in Spain and is very popular with the crowds. After brilliant performances in Latin America and Spain earlier this year, Sanchez has decided that she is ready to take the test to become a matador de toros. Out of the ring, Sanchez doesn’t look like a matador. She is casually elegant, very feminine and wears her long blond hair loose. She seems to move much more like a dancer than an athlete, but in the ring she is all power.
When she was fourteen, Sanchez’s father warned her that the world of bullfighting was hard enough for a man and even harder for a woman. It seems he is right. “It is really a tough world for a woman,” says Sanchez. “You start with the door shut in your face. A man has to prove himself only once, whereas I have had to do it ten times just to get my foot in the door.”
In perhaps the world’s most masculine profession, it would seem strange if Sanchez had not met problems. But even though Spanish women won the legal right to fight bulls on equal terms with men in 1974, there are still matadors like Jesulin de Ubrique who refuse to fight in the same ring as her.
Sanchez lives with her family in Parla, south of Madrid. Her family is everything to her and is the main support in her life. “My sisters don’t like bullfighting, they don’t even watch it on TV, and my mother would be the happiest person in the world if I gave it up. But we get on well. Mum’s like my best friend.”
When Sanchez is not fighting she has a tough fitness routine – running, working out in the gym and practising with her father in the afternoon. By nine she is home for supper, and by eleven she is in bed. She doesn’t drink, smoke or socialise. “You have to give up a lot,” says Sanchez. “It’s difficult to meet people, but it doesn’t worry me – love doesn’t arrive because you look for it.”
Sanchez spends most of the year travelling: in summer to Spanish and French bullfights and in winter to Latin America. Her mother dislikes watching Sanchez fight, but goes to the ring when she can. If not, she waits at home next to the telephone. Her husband has had to ring three times to say that their daughter had been injured, twice lightly in the leg and once seriously in the stomach. After she has been wounded, the only thing Sanchez thinks about is how quickly she can get back to the ring. “It damages your confidence, “ she says “but it also makes you mature. It’s just unprofessional to be injured. You cannot let it happen.” Sanchez is managed by Simon Casas, who says, “At the moment there is no limit to where she can go. She has a champion’s mentality, as well as courage and technique.”
2.Fill in the gaps.
Cristina Sanchez went to bullfighting school in Madrid. Then she trained with _____. Sanchez is very popular with the _____. Sanchez is elegant and moves more like a ______ than an athlete. Bullfighting is a tough world for a _____. Although Spanish women won the right to fight bulls with men in ______, some men still refuse to fight in the same ring as them. Sanchez’s family lives in _____. She has a tough fitness routine – running, working out in the _____ and practising with her father. Cristina doesn’t drink, _____ or socialise but she travels a lot in order to fight. She has been injured in the leg and the _____ but this hasn’t kept her away from the ring. Her manager, Simon Casas, says she has a _____ mentality.
TALKING POINTS
1.Read the dialogue.
What Does She Do?
(S c e n e: an old lady in an armchair. Her grandson is running into the room.)
PHILIP: Hello, grandmother.
GRANDMOTHER: What?
PHILIP: I said “hello”. I’ve got a girl friend coming to dinner.
GRANDMOTHER: What have you brought for dinner?
PHILIP: Oh God, nothing. I said I had got a girl friend coming for dinner.
GRANDMOTHER: A girl friend? What’s her name?
PHILIP: Her name’s Olga. She’s charming.
GRANDMOTHER: She’s what?
PHILIP: Granny, I said she was charming. You’ll like her.
GRANDMOTHER: I’ll what?
PHILIP: I said you’d like her. She’s a very interesting girl, too.
GRANDMOTHER: What is she?
PHILIP: Interesting. She trains animals in the circus.
GRANDMOTHER: What does she do?
PHILIP: I said she trained animals in the circus.
GRANDMOTHER: Good heavens! A girl training animals. Other people’s grandsons meet lovely teachers, nurses, dressmakers, actresses, secretaries… And my grandson meets an animal trainer! Of all people!
PHILIP: Granny, I am sure you’ll like her. I told you she was a very interesting person. She’s just returned from India.
GRANDMOTHER: Where did you say she had just returned from?
PHILIP: From India.
GRANDMOTHER: What animals does she train?
PHILIP: She’s got bears and an elephant.
GRANDMOTHER: Bears and a what?
PHILIP: And an elephant.
GRANDMOTHER: Let’s hope she’s not bringing her pets to dinner too.
PHILIP: She is in a way.
GRANDMOTHER: What?
PHILIP: I said she was in a way. They’ll all be on the TV programme today. We’ll watch them.
GRANDMOTHER: We’ll what dear?
PHILIP: Oh God! Never mind, grandmother, she’ll be here in a minute.
2.Learn the dialogue and dramatize it.
3.Your are going to invite your girlfriend (boyfriend) for dinner with your family. Your parents are interested in her (his) occupation. Role play the conversation.
UNIT 22
| Grammar: Revision. Topic:Agricultural Enterprises of Ukraine. Reading: Text A. Agrarian Policy of Ukraine. Text B. Ownership and Management in the British Agriculture Talking Points |
GRAMMAR
REVISION