Make up your own sentences using these words.

Read the text and translate it using a dictionary.

Education and Career

Let me introduce myself. My name is Ivan Petrov. I am a student of Surgut State University. I am studying at the Faculty of Technology and Business.

Surgut State University is one of the leading educational institutions in Tyumen Region. The time its foundation dates back to the year of 1993. Now it has 12 faculties which provide professional education for more than 20 professions. Surgut State University houses six buildings and has a lot of facilities for science, sport and cultural activities. The students of Surgut State University can carry out their research work and participate in scientific conferences. Besides their academic studies they also take an active part in sport competitions and extracurricular activities such as Drama and Music Clubs, Debate Club and Intellectual Club.

My future career is connected with the world of technology and business. So, I am having a lot of courses that help me to become a good professional. I study Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Management, Graphics, Arts, English language and many others. To become a good specialist in the field of business and design I have to develop a lot of practical skills.

In conclusion, I would like to say that the study at the Faculty of Technology and Business is a mixture of education, communication, creative work and absorbing pastime.

 

Insert the following words in the gaps in the text below.

	Applicant, application, application form, apply, candidate, curriculum vitae or CV, employment agencies, interview, job description, job vacancies, references, short-listed

Many people looking for work read the (1)………..advertised by companies and (2)…………in newspapers or on the Internet. To reply to an advertisement is to (3)………….for a job. (You become a (4)…………..or an (5)……..) You write an (6)……….., or fill in the company’s (7)………, and send it, along with your (8)………and a covering letter. You often have to give the names of two people who are prepared to write(9)……..for you. If your qualifications and abilities match the (10)…….., you might be (11) ………, i.e. selected to attend an (12)……….

6.Project work: Applying for a job and CV.

One day, you will apply for your first job. Unfortunately, many of your classmates, as well as lots of people you don’t know, will probably also apply for the same job. Your experience and qualifications will probably be quite similar to those of most of the other candidates. You have to know how to write your curriculum vitae to get the job.

 

Write your Curriculum Vitae using Notes on Curricula vitae and Model for CV. (Supplement 1)

Unit 2. Inventions and inventors

1. Read and answer the questions:

1. What inventions do you know?

2. What inventions did you use today?

3. What invention is the most useful for you?

 

2. Test your general knowledge. Do the quiz! Match the items in column A(who, when) and column B(what).

A B

Who	When	What
Benjamen Franklin		photography
Nicephore Niepce (France)		the telephone
Samuel Morse		a sewing machine
Isaak Singer		the phonograph
Alexander Graham Bell (USA)		the telegraph
Thomas Edison (USA)		the world’s first petrol-driven motor car
Karl Benz (Germany)		bifocal lenses for eyeglasses
The Lumiere brothers (France)		the first vacuum cleaner
L. Biro (Hungary)		traffic lights
Wilbur and Orville Wright (USA)		the first ball-point pen
James M. Spangler (USA)		penicillin
Henry Ford (USA)		Cinematography and opened the world’s first cinema in Paris
Garret A. Morgan		the first airplane
Vladimir Zvorykin (USA)		television
Alexpander Fleming (Britain)		the world’s first car assembly line
Igor Sikorsky		developed the idea of cloning
Sergey Korolyev (Russia)		created Microsoft DOS
Bill Gates (USA)		the artificial heart
Jan Wilmat (Scotland)		the helicopter
Robert Jarvik		designed the first artificial satellite

(Check your answers Supplement 2)

 

3. Study the following chart: The Passive Voice