Student's life in Russia and abroad

Key Vocabulary:

finding a job – поиск работы

a permanent job – постоянная работа

training centres – обучающие центры

I see young people have many opportunities to choose from. – Я думаю, у молодежи есть много возможностей для выбора.

I'm with you there. – Я согласен с тобой.

- Don't you have any difficulties in finding a job in the US?

- Actually it's not always easy to get a permanent job. But there are training centres, called Job Corps where people are taught baby-sitting, typing, cooking, nursing, bricklaying, book-keeping and other trades. Job Corps are there to help people find a job.

- I see young people have many opportunities to choose from.

- All the same I'm convinced that it's better to spend one's youth studying.

- I'm with you there. But when I come to think of the long anxiety-filled process of applying to university I can't help feeling distressed.

- You definitely shouldn't. You never know what you can do till you try. True, applying to college is one of the most distressing times in the life of high school seniors but you must face it if you want to compete successfully in the working world.

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Функции причастий I

Participle I

Исходная форма глагола + ing = причастие действительного залога (Participle I):

to grow – growing, to develop – developing, to live – living.