Контрольна робота з теми "Choosing a Career"

Контрольна робота

Тема: Choosing a Career

1. Read and translate the text:

Choosing a Career

It is very important for us to make the right choice of profession. Before you can choose, you ask yourself quite a lot of questions. What do you know you are good at? What do you enjoy doing? Perhaps you enjoy work king with your hands. Or you may prefer using your head – your brains. Are you interested in machines? Or do you like meeting people? It's difficult to know all the answers to these questions until you have left school and actually begun work.

Yet a school-girl (school-boy) I decided to enter the Foreign Languages Department of the Pedagogical University. The reason for it is very simple. The major one is that I always gave my preference to the humanities, especially English. I should confess it was my favourite subject at school and I did well in this subject without any effort. My English teacher was a person I loved best at school because our English lessons were always interesting.That's why I had to work hard at my English on my own. I tried to read I adapted English books, newspapers and magazines in English on a regular basis. But there is no doubt, the best way to improve English is to work all a language laboratory. I was lucky to have a very good language laboratory at my school. But what I find especially useful for one mastering English is listening to the broadcasts of the radio programmes. The speech of native speakers of English served me as a good example which I always tried to follow.

So I made up my mind to enter the Foreign Languages Department because I wanted to know English perfectly. In my opinion it is impossible to do without foreign languages because of expanding economic and cultural ties of Ukraine with other countries of the world.

After graduating from the Pedagogical University I want to work as a teacher at school. Nowadays the teachers of English are of great demand in our country. It is not a secret that our schools need good teachers of foreign languages, especially of English.

This profession is to my liking though I understand that it is a difficult job. This noblest profession demands of the teacher constant thought, love for children and devotion to his cause. The children in your class aren't just boys and girls. Everyone is a unique individual. To be a good teacher you must be interested in what you are doing because every time you learn something new, you become something new.

The profession of a teacher is a noble and important one. I shall try to do my best to put into practice all the knowledge and skills I’ll obtain during the years of my studying at the Pedagogical University.

2. Remember the following words and word combinations. Translate them into Ukrainian:

to make the right choice, noble, a unique individual, to enter, preference, to look forward to smith., language skills and habits, on a regular basis, to work hard, native speakers, doubt, to know English perfectly, teachers of foreign languages.

3. Fill in the missing words:

It is very important for us to make the ___ ___ of profession.

I tried to read ___ English books, newspapers and magazines in English on a ___ ___.

I was ___ to have a very good ___ ___at my school.

But what I find especially useful for one ___ English is listening to the ___ of the radio programmes.

This profession is to my ___though I understand that it is a difficult ___.

The profession of a teacher is a ___ and ___ one.

4. Make up sentences to illustrate the meaning of the following word combinations:

 to make the right choice of profession, noble profession, on a regular basis, the best way to improve English, to be good at.

5. Translate from Ukrainian into English:

Після закінчення педагогічного університету; дуже важливо зробити правильний вибір; газети та журнали; економічне та культурне життя; тяжка робота; вчити щось нове; це не секрет; клас – це не лише дівчата та хлопці.