1listen to a career officer talking about the importance of a person’s first job and decide whether these statements are true (t) or false (f 1 everyone likes his/her first job. 2 money is the main reason you get your first job. 3 your first job helps you to feel independent. 4 your first job teaches you responsibility. 5 you don’t have to show up to your first job. 6 if you are sick, your supervisor will find somebody to fill in. 7 if you don’t do a good job, you will lose your position. 8 you will use all your skills in your first job. 9 you will feel more adult because of your first job. 10 your first job will help you to grow personally. лексика и грамматика. 1. guess the person who repairs the pipes in the bathroom. a) a physicianc) a plumber b) a surgeond) a school teacher 2. choose the appropriate word. my relatives were very … when i made a career.a) support c) supported b) supportive d) supportable 3. choose the correct form of the verb. they … their school certificates by next friday. a) will be given b) will give c) will have given d) will have been given 4. give the definition of the word “challenging”. a) dull and tiresome b) making you feel happy and satisfied c) irritating and often overwhelming d) difficult in an interesting or enjoyable way 5. make the right word combinations. 1) full-time a. person 2) self-employedb. skills 3) engineeringc. job 4) telephone d. profession 6. open the brackets and fill in the appropriate form of the words. 1)this job is not well paid but it is ( satisfaction). 2)does your friend have any (ambitious)? 7.fill in the gaps with the correct words. career choice when school is over, young people need to make a choice of what they want to do further. our grandparents often say that life used to be safer and ) when they were young. that may be true, but i think that our generation have more opportunities than they had. we have a wider career choice and we can shape our life (2) our inclinations and abilities. i’m sure that there are no good or bad jobs but there are right and wrong ones for every particular person. one and the same job could be ) and enjoyable for one person and absolutely inappropriate for another one. it’s also natural that different people have different (4). some of us seek a prestigious job, some ) a well-paid job, and some people want to work freelance and don’t care about money ) — they just want to be their own bosses and plan their own days. distance jobs are gaining popularity for the same reasons. you see that we can choose not only the industry we want to ) to, but the format of the job too. a) complicatedb) comfortablec) communicative d) competent a) because ofb) due to c) according to d) in spite of a) refreshingb) retrainingc) relaxing d) rewarding a) preferencesb) benefitsc) opportunities d) responsibilities a) at b) after c) for d) forward a) salary b) paymentc) costs d) prestige a) ourselvesb) yourselvesc) us d) yours письмо 1.write the three most important personal qualities and the three most important professional qualities or skills for each job. a) i think that a businessman should be very responsible, b) besides, it is important for him to be able to solve problems,