Explain to your friend what you must do to insure a good career. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

8. Work in pairs. Speak to your cousin whom you haven’t seen for several years about your relatives/friends and their occupations. Make up a dialogue using the following variations:

A. 1) – What do you plan to do on leaving school?

when you are seventeen?

when you are back from the army

– I’d like to enter a university.

to join the army(the navy).

to go to work.

to become a geologist.

2) – Medicine is Bob’s calling, isn’t it?

Technology

Architecture

Engineering

– Oh, yes. No doubt he’ll make a good doctor.

engineer.

designer.

B. 1) – What is your profession?

trade?

job?

occupation?

– I am a driver.

a bookkeeper.

a doctor.

2) – What can you say of your friend?

your new acquaintance?

Mr. Jones?

– As far as I know, he is a skilled locksmith.

an experienced teacher.

a well-known journalist.

an excellent architect.

3) – Where does your father work?

brother

uncle

– He works at a Research Institute.

a Ministry.

a printing-house.

a toy factory.

4) – What is (are) your father’s salary?

pay?

wages?

– He gets 500 dollars a month.

earns 100 pounds a week.

makes quite enough.

gets not so much.

5) – Why is the chief displeased with Jim?

Mr. Jones?

– It’s because he cannot manage his work well.

shirks his job.

often comes late.

is not experienced enough.

is an idler (loafer).

6) – Why aren’t you at work now?

in your office?

at your factory?

– You see, I’m on leave.

on vacation.

on sick-list.

Your future profession is an engineer. Read the text and explain to your friend: a) what engineering is; b) what kind of person an engineer is; c) what your future speciality is; d) what your future profession deals with.