Post-reading task

a) Ask different kinds of questions to the parts of sentences given below.

b) Ask as many questions as you can to get more information from the sentences given below. (Consult Grammar References).

It is very important to get a good education.

All professions are necessary.

There are many interesting trades.

It is very important to be a highly qualified and good specialist.

Speaking

Work in pairs.

1. Ask your friend about his decision to choose the profession.

1) Where did you come from?

2) What school did you finish?

3) How did you study?

4) Why did you choose this technical school to enter?

5) Did you enter after the ninth or eleventh form?

6) Who influenced your choice?

7) Did your parents support you or were against?

8) What are you going to be?

2. Make up a dialogue about your decision to choose a profession.

3. Be ready to tell about your decision to choose your profession.

Reading

The modern servant -

The nanny, the cook, and the gardener

You are going to read about three modem servants. Divide into three groups.

Group A Read about the nanny.

Group В Read about the cook.

Group C Read about the gardener.

1. Read your article and answer the questions. Use your dictionary to help with new words. Discuss your answers with your group.

a) What and who influenced her/his choice of career?

b) What did her/his parents want her/him to do?

c) What was the parents' attitude to the choice of career at first?

d) Has the parents attitude changed? If so, why?

e) In what ways do the parents think that times have changed since they were young?

2.Read your article again.

Which of the following multi-word verbs can you find in your article? Underline them.

bring up (1) look after, educate (a child)

bring up (2) mention (in conversation)

carry on continue

drop out leave, not complete (a college course)

fall out quarrel and no longer be friends

get on with have a good relationship with

get over recover from (an illness, a shock)

give up stop (a job. a habit, e.g. smoking)

go through experience

grow up change from child to adult

look after take care of

make up (1) invent

make it up(2) be friends again after an argument

pick up learn unconsciously (e.g. a language)

put off postpone

be taken aback be surprised

take after resemble

turn out be in the end

take over take control of

The nanny

Amanda Peniston-Bird, 21, is the daughter of a judge and has just completed a two-year training course to be a nanny at the Norland Nursery Training College. She and her mother talk about her choice of career.

Amanda

My sister Charlotte was born when I was seven and my mother decided she needed a nanny to look after us. So we got Alison. She was very young, seventeen I think, and

wonderful. I adored her. She only worked part-time with us before she started her training at Norland College. She had to dress us in the morning and take me to school. After school she made us delicious teas and read us stories in bed. On Charlotte's birthday she organized fantastic party.

When Alison left, we had a trained nanny who lived with us and worked full-time. She was called Nanny Barnes by everyone, including my parents. She was older and quite traditional and wore a uniform. It was then that I realized that I wanted to be a nanny. I have always got on well with children. I have always enjoyed taken care of my sister and younger cousins. I told Mummy very firmly that I wanted to be a nanny when I grew up. At the time she laughed. I know that she and Daddy thought it was just a childish phase I was going through, but it wasn’t. They thought I would follow in my father’s footsteps and study law.

“My father wanted me to be a solicitor.”