Практикум по грамматике английского языка : учебное пособие

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Exercise 34. Answer the following questions.
1. Do you think that some jobs require people with special characteristics? 
If so, can you give examples?
2. Are there any jobs which you think you would be unsuitable for? If so, 
why?
3. What sort of job do you think you are most suitable for with your personal 
characteristics?
4. What are the most important aspects of a good job? Put these in order of 
importance:
good pay
being your 
own boss 
job security 
power
seeing the results of your work
your colleagues
working conditions
holidays
flexible hours
chances of promotion
job satisfaction
perks (e.g., corporate car, free lunch)
opportunity to help people
5. What are the most important things for you in your future job?
6. If a job is boring but well-paid, will you ever apply for it?
7. How much money would you like to earn in your job?
8. Which are the three best paid jobs and the three worst paid jobs in your 
country? Do you think that any of the jobs on the list are overpaid or 
underpaid in your country?
nurse in a 
hospital 
miner
bank manager dentist
schoolteacher
factory worker

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top professional footballer
nuclear scientist
politician
soldier
policeman
9. How do you feel in a new group of people? Anxious? Confident?
10. Does a person need to be successful?
11. What is your ambition?
Exercise 35. Add some extra information to the sentences below.
Example: Liz has got a great new job.
■=> Extra information: It’s a part-time job in an office quite near her 
home. It’s a well-paid job with six weeks’ holiday.
1. To get a good job nowadays is quite a problem.
2. Bob has just sent off an application form.
3. It’s the job he has always wanted to do.
4. He thinks he is the right man for a job of a managing director.
5. He has to do well at the interview.
6. The interviewers will be interested in quite a few things.
7. Bob writes down the questions to ask at the end of the interview.
8. Bob is very ambitious.