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Future Profession

1. Answer the questions:

1. What jobs in your country are popular or unpopular with young people?

2. Is it easy for young people in your country to find the kind of jobs they want? Why/ why not?

3. What factors (e.g. salary, opportunities for travel or promotion, working hours) would you take into account in choosing a career for yourself?

4. Sometimes people are not paid well enough for the job that they do (e.g. nurses) while other people (e.g. successful businessmen) earn enormous salaries. In your opinion, which jobs are underpaid and which are overpaid in your country?

2. Match the description to the relevant name of a profession in brackets below. Give your reasons.

a. This profession requires special education. The person should be kindhearted, careful, courageous, sensitive to the needs of others; should be sympathetic to the pain of other people; should be very handy, devoted to his (her) duty and selfless.

(manager, doctor, teacher, athlete, actor, driver, explorer, nurse, pilot)

b. This profession requires special education; the person should be kind, generous, strict, and just; should love children; should possesses deep and broad knowledge of the subject; should be responsive, honest, tactful, patient, and tolerant.

(manager, doctor, teacher, athlete, actor, driver, explorer, nurse, pilot)

c. This profession requires special qualities; the person should be careful; should have quick reactions; should have good vision and hearings; should know and observe the traffic rules; should be a good mechanic.

(manager, doctor, teacher, athlete, actor, driver, explorer, nurse, pilot)

d. This profession needs the following qualities: the ability to foresee, to analyze and to risk, the ability to keep promises, the person should be disciplined, well behaved, communicative; should know foreign languages; to be a good psychologist.

(manager, doctor, teacher, athlete, actor, driver, explorer, nurse, pilot)

3. Match the qualities with the professions. Some qualities can be used more than once. Then make sentences as in the example.