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3.1. Insert the verbs used in the recording choosing from the suggested variants:
A. My eyesight wasn’t good enough, so I had to ____ that idea.
a. give away b. give up c. give out
B. I wanted to ___ there and do research.
a. stay on b. stay in c. stay
C. I expected to ___ that job for a long time.
a. stay on b. stay c. stay in
D. I didn’t ___ with the managing director.
a. get well b. get on c. get on well
E. He asked me to ___ as the director.
a. take over b. take in c. take after
3.2. Listen and note down the English equivalents of the following Russian word combinations:
а) отказаться от намерения
b) проводить научное исследование
c) ладить с кем-нибудь
d) собеседование с поступающим на работу
e) предложить постоянную работу
While listening this time try to fill in the missing words in the sentences below.
I worked.................. years......... wanted to send...... South... but......... married,...... decided.......... Then......... baby and I............... the family,............ English............ in the evenings.
I liked........................ agency...... the owner......... offered.................. a teacher,............ the agency. Two years later,.................. to retire,..................... as the director....... I am!
Follow-Up Activities
4.1. Talk about the speaker’s education, experience, interests, social status and family. Make use of the vocabulary from ex. 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2.
4.2. Share your opinion of the speaker’s ambitions, interests and turns of circumstances in his life and career.
Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING
Text Title: I’d like to boss people around
Cassette: A Native Speaker’s Recording
Listening Exercises
Listen to Nicolle speaking about what job she would like to get when she graduates from the University.
Say if the following statements are True or False.
a) Nicolle studies languages at the University.
b) Nicolle finds the work of an interpreter boring.
c) She is the type of person who likes to stay at home.
d) She can’t stand having a normal 9 to 5 job.
e) She wouldn’t like to have a job with a lot of responsibility.
1.2. Listen to the recording again paying attention to how Nicolle explains why she:
a) will have to start thinking about what to do with her life very soon;
b) can’t decide what she wants to do;
c) doesn’t want to become an interpreter;
d) would prefer to be in business.
Language Focus and Auditory Memory Check
2.1. While listening to the recording this time pick out and note down:
a) synonyms of the following words and word combinations:
for sure to be realized
completely to give people orders
to be different dull, uninteresting
subordinate, requiring no skills
B) words denoting jobs Nicolle would like to have
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