Exercise I, Read the definitions ofthe following words, Compare them: Work is physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something, 2. a. A job; employment; looking for work. b. A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood, 3, a. Something that one is doing, making, or performing, especially as an occupation or undertaking; a duty or task: begin the day's work, b. An amount of such activity cither done or required; a week's work. Job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession, 2. A position in which one is employed, 3. a. A task that must be done: Washing the windows is not my job. b. A specified duty or responsibility. Occupation is a person's regular work or profession; job or principal activity. 2. any activity on which time is spent by a person. 3. the act of occupying or the state of being occupied. Сareer is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)".It can also pertain to an occupation or a profession that usually involves special training or formal education, and is considered to be a person's lifework. Vocation is a term for an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which he or she is suited, trained, or qualified, the particular occupation for which you are trained. 2. a. a special urge, inclination, or predisposition to a particular calling or career, esp a religious one. Profession is a vocation founded upon specialized high educational training, the purpose of which is to supply objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. Specialty is a special pursuit, occupation, aptitude, or skill. 2. A branch of medicine or surgery, such as cardiology or neurosurgery, in which a physician specializes; the field or practice of a specialist. 3. A special feature or characteristic; a peculiarity. 4. The state or quality of being special or distinctive, 5. An item or a product of a distinctive kind or of particular superiority: French pastry is the chef's specialty. ( http://en.wikipedia.org , http://www.thefreedictionary.com ) Exercise 2. Guess how to match the "work" with preposition phrases in the left-had column with the phrases in the right-hand column: 1. work in a. a fast food restaurant 2. work as b. small children 3. work for c. a project 4. work on d. a computer programmer 5. work out e. a large company 6. work with f. the solution of the problem Exercise 3. Choose phirases from exercise 2 to complete the sentences: 1. Joe likes helping people, He problem teenagers. 2. I have to my presentation for tomorrow's class. It's still not very good. 3. Do you still ＿ the same company? 4. The teacher can't give us any help, We have to ＿ the answers for ourselves. 5. Julie wants to a model 6. I hate this place! Exercise S. Match professions to the definitions, There are three extra professions which you don't need to use: a. accountant the main person in the kitchen of a restaurant or a cafe b. architect a person who cures animals c. astronomer a person who is good at growing plants d. chef a person who looks after the moncy of a company c. doctor a person who helps you to learn new things f. engineer a person who designs new buildings g. gardener a person who looks after ill people h. lawyer 8. a person who plays a musical instrument i. nurse 9. a person who does research into physics, chemistry, biology, etc. scientist k. teacher 10. a person who studies the stars and planets 11. a person who designs or repairs machine 1. writer m. vet n. musician Exercise 6. Read and say which profession is described in each ofthe following examples (Use APPENDIX1): To my mind this is a profession of… Ithink… It seems to me… a) This profession requires special education, the person should be kindhearted, careful, courageous, sensitive to the need of others; should be sympathetic to the pain of other people; should be very handy, devoted to this duty, selfless. b) This profession requires special education; the person should be king, generous, strict and just; should love children; should possess deep and broad knowledge of a subject; should be responsive, honest, tactful, reserved, patient and tolerant. c) This trade requires special qualities; the person should be careful, should have quick reactions, should have vision and hoaring, should know and observe the traffic rufes; should be a good mechanic d) This profession requires special education and physical qualities; the person should be very well educated in physics, mathematics, astronomy, should be in a perfect state of heafth; should have good endurance and the ability to stand great strain and the state of weightlessness; should be couragcous and daring. e) This profession needs special qualities; ability to stand heights or depths, extremes of heat or cold, courage, curiosity, the sense of duty, the ability to risk, good health, devotion to one's idea, confidence in success. f) This profession needs the following qualities; enterprise, the ability to foresee, to analyze and to nisk, the ability to keep promises, the person should be disciplined, well behaved, commumicative, should know foreign languages; to be a good psychologist. Exercise 11, Which ofthe job titles: public relations officer administrator personnel officer unskilled worker labourer director safety officer (not the security officer - the person who executive manager makes sure everything is locked and secure, that there are union official no burglaries or other crimes, etc.) supervisor would best describe the following? I. The person who represents the workers' interests in disputes with the management in a factory. 2. A person who has a high (but not the highest) position in a company and whose job it is to make important decisions. 3. An important person in a company who sits on the Board. 4 A worker whose job requires no special training. A person generally in charge of the day-to-day administration in a company. 6. The person who makes sure there are no risks of accidents from machinery, etc. 7. A person whose job it is to keep an eye on the day-to-day work of other workers. B. A person who docs hard physical work. 9. The person who handles applications for vacant posts. 10. The person who gives out information to the press for a company. Exercise 12. Describe what these people do. a) A lawyer is a person who b) A journalist is c) A nurse d) A musician e) A footballer f) A librarian g) A psychologist h) An accountant