Jobs and Professional Qualities.

Jobs and Posts.

 

Vocabulary list.

Check what you know.

manager	менеджер
bank manager	менеджер банка
finance manager	финансовый менеджер
sales manager	менеджер по продажам
marketing manager	менеджер по маркетингу
personnel manager	менеджер по персоналу
customer service manager	менеджер по обслуживанию клиентов
PR (public relations) manager	менеджер по связям с общественностью
advertising manager	менеджер по рекламе
office manager	офис-менеджер
accountant	бухгалтер
assistant	помощник
banker	банкир
clerk	служащий
consultant	консультант
economist	экономист
electrician	электрик
firefighter	пожарный
lawyer	юрист
MD (Managing Director)	генеральный директор
mechanic	механик
police officer	полицейский
receptionist	администратор
secretary	секретарь
security guard	охранник
shop-assistant	продавец (в магазине)
stock broker	биржевой брокер
travel agent	агент по туризму
university lecturer	преподаватель университета

How to ask and answer about one’s job:

- What do you do?	Чем Вы занимаетесь?
- What’s your job?	Какая у Вас работа?
- I’m an economist. I work in a bank (with ‘in’ say about place or general area, industry).	Я экономист. Я работаю в банке.
- I work for Gazprom (with ‘for’ use the name of a company).	Я работаю в «Газпроме».

 

Exercise 1

Match the jobs and the definitions.

lawyer shop-assistant electrician receptionist

manager university lecturer stock broker mechanic

 

	Someone whose job is to organize and control the work
	someone who repairs (ремонтирует) cars
	someone who teaches university students
	someone who buys and sells stocks (акции)
	someone whose job is to provide (предоставлять) people with legal services
	someone whose job is to serve (обслуживать) people in a shop
	someone whose job is to welcome and help visitors in a hotel or office
	someone who fits and repairs electrical things

 

 

Exercise 2

You are planning to open a small shop. Your assistant has made a list of vacancies. Do you agree with the list? Do you really need all the people?

 

List of vacancies:

Director, 2-3 Shop-Assistants, Sales Manager, Customer Service Manager, Accountant, Personnel Manager, Cleaner, Security Guard.

Exercise 3

Think about at least one job that is impossible for the following people.

Model:

People who understand nothing about cars.

The job of a mechanic is impossible for such people.

- people who are afraid of dogs;

- people who didn’t go to the university;

- people who are terrible at numbers and figures;

- people who will not work in the evening or at weekends.

Exercise 4

Look at the vocabulary list and say what professionals you will need in the followingsituations:

- you are planning to open a travel agency;

- you are recruiting the staff for a bank;

- you are the Personnel Manager and are recruiting all the necessary staff for a factory.

Qualities.

Vocabulary list.

Check what you know.

hard-working	трудолюбивый
lazy	ленивый
punctual	пунктуальный
late	опаздывающий
reliable	надежный
unreliable	ненадежный
clever	умный
flexible	гибкий
inflexible	негибкий
ambitious	амбициозный
unambitious	не амбициозный
sensible	разумный
stupid	глупый
friendly	дружелюбный
unfriendly	недружелюбный
kind	добрый
nice	милый
pleasant	приятный
optimistic	оптимистичный
cheerful	жизнерадостный
pessimistic	пессимистичный
generous	щедрый
mean	скупой
sensitive	чувствительный
insensitive	нечувствительный, равнодушный
honest	честный
dishonest	нечестный
self-confident	уверенный
helpful	готовый помочь, отзывчивый
shy	застенчивый
use one’s initiative	инициативный
easy-going	легкий, общительный
emotional	эмоциональный
responsible	ответственный

 

Exercise 5

Delete the qualities of character which, in your opinion, the people below should not have:

 

Personal assistant (hard-working, punctual, flexible, reliable, clever, talkative, friendly).

Bank manager (honest, clever, ambitious, cheerful, generous, emotional, sensible).

Stock broker (hard-working, flexible, reliable, clever, emotional).

Write your own (1-2) similar tasks.

Exercise 6

Complete the sentences:

Your receptionist is very helpful and (дружелюбная).

The accountant is (честный и пунктуальный).

The stock broker is (умный, амбициозный и трудолюбивый).

This manager is (надежный и инициативный).

This girl is too (застенчивая) to work as Sales Manager.

 

Work in pairs and make up 3 similar sentences for your group mate.

 

Exercise 7

Which qualities do you find positive? Negative?Write twocolumns of 7-8 qualities.

Exercise 8

Try to guess about your group mate’s character, write 5-6 leading qualities. Let him (her) write his (her) own list. Compare your lists. Now change the roles.

 

Exercise 9

Write 2-3 descriptions or situations for a quality of character; let your group mates to guess the quality.

E.g.:

He often promises to do things and forgets about it (unreliable).

He can work with different people, both in a team and on his own (flexible).

Exercise 10

Make up a list of 3-4 qualities necessary for the following professions:

- an accountant

- a manager in a bank

- a receptionist

- a stock broker

- a lawyer

- a PR manager.

 

Exercise 11

Add prefixes to form the opposites of the following words:

- pleasant

- honest

- kind

- friendly

- reliable

- flexible

- sensitive

- ambitious.

Exercise 12

Discuss the following with your group mate; present briefly your common conclusion:

1 What, in your opinion, is the worst quality (from the Vocabulary list)?

2 What qualities, in your opinion, should most people in a society have?

3 Which qualities, in your opinion, are born and which can be developed?

4 Have you ever heard about cross-cultural differences in management? How different, in your opinion, are qualities of American, German, Japanese, Chinese and other managers?

 

Exercise 13

Write a short essay on the topic:

Are there any qualities you do not have but would like to have? Why do you want to have them? How are you going to develop the qualities if that is possible?