第九课>>Section One

Task1   Willing to Train

Key to Exercises

A.    True or false Questions.  Write a T in front of a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.

1. T    2. T    3. F    4. T

B.     Fill in the blanks with information about Catherine based on her own statement.

Name:    Catherine Hunt

Age:    almost nineteen

Qualification:

1. qualifications from school, very good results
2. certificates for ballet and for playing the piano

Interests:

1. tennis
2. swimming
3. travelling
4. talking to people

Intelligence:    reasonably intelligent

C.    Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. Dancing and music.
2. A good girl.  A bit lazy and disorganized sometimes, but very bright.
3. Be a teacher or a vet.
4. Because she believes that Cathy likes working with young children and looking after sick animals.
5. She wants to talk to Cathy, not her mother.
6. No.  She is not bright enough to be a vet and wants to find something different from school work.
7. Yes, if it is for something useful.
8. Nursing, because she has good qualifications in English and Maths.
9. Very hard work, not very pleasant sometimes.
10. At first she is afraid she is not good enough.  Later she thinks she should enjoy that.

D.    Complete the following sentences.

1. Ever since she was a little girl she's been very keen on her music and dancing.  She ought to be a music teacher or something.  She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job.
2. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose.   But, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music.   It's so lonely.
3. I went to France with the school choir last year.  I really enjoyed that.  And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests --- things that would help me to get a job.
4. I wondered about being a hairdresser --- you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly --- but I don't know.  It doesn't seem very worthwhile.
5. I do look after sick animals.  I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car.  My mother was sick, but I didn't mind.  I was too worried about the dog.

Section Two

Task 1     How do others Think of My Job?

Key to Exercises

A.    Fill in the following chart.

B.    Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. Clever, artistic, very noisy.
2. To Mr S. Andrews.
3. The Company does put Mr or Ms in front of the names on its departmental list.
4. Nursing.  Being a male nurse, he has more contact with the patients and a long term responsibility for their welfare.
5. They travel and have wife at every port.
6. No.
7. She is learning a lot about hair and how to get along with people and is gaining confidence.
8. She will be able to start her own business and earn five times as much as the teachers.

Task 2     Job Stereotypes

Key to Exercises

A.    True of False Questions.  Write a T in front of a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.

1. T    2. F    3. T    4. F      5. T    6. F   

B. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements.

1. a    2. b    3. a    4. a      5. b    6. c    7. b     8. b

C.    Re-list the professions in the survey, beginning with the one that the children took as the most favourite.

1. lawyer
2. accountant
3. physicist
4. biologist
5. economist
6. civil engineer
7. electrical engineer
8. mechanical engineer
9. sales representative
10. estate agent

D.    Fill in the blanks.

1. The vast majority of children thought that engineering was a "dirty job".   They also thought the job was of "low status" and "subordinate"; that is, the engineer is more likely to take orders than to give orders.
2. There were good points, too.  Engineering was seen to be ""interesting, well paid" work.

Section Three

Task 1 Learning to Rephrase

Key to Exercises

1. barter = trading goods for goods
2. past: seashells spices --- no value  money --- stated value
3. because economic developments, trade done in barter
4. more valuable currency --- hard c.
5. seller demand hard c. , esp, from nation with hard c.
6. inflation = abnormally rapid price increase
7. due to scarcity of hard c. in some nations & world-wide inflation, payments in hard c. be supplemented by other types, e.g. bartering
8. the following : example of bartering, consumer preferences in beverages in USSR & USA
9. Pepsi -- Cola: 1st introduction of cola to USSR, Coca-Cola unhappy
10. Bartering presents serious difficult problems