Unit 6. My career and future job

Use unit 5 of appendix 11 for written practice exercises

1) Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. At Academic Earth, people are working to identify barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. Academic Earth is a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give Internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. The goal of Academic Earth is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

Visit the website of Academic Earth (http://www.academicearth.org/), choose a subject you are interested in from the list, listen to a lecture of your subject and analyze it and compose brief presentation about its content.

Warm-up

Employer Employee Salary Trade union Retirement Fringe benefits Redundancy Part-time job Full-time worker Staff

Наниматель, работодатель Служащий, работающий по найму Зарплата Профсоюз Выход в отставку, уход на пенсию Дополнительные внезарплатные льготы Сокращение Работа на полставки Работник, занятый полный рабочий день Штат служащих

1. Do you think it is difficult to be a real professional in the 21^st century?

2. What traits of character are necessary for a successful career?

3. Which is more important: high salary or job satisfaction?

4. Do you think women have the same career opportunities as men?

5. What are advantages and disadvantages of your future profession?

1. Have you ever tried to find a job in accordance with your speciality?

2. What skills and qualifications are necessary to have to find a good job of your speciality?

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