Ex.

1. Sheila works in a chemical factory. She has to wear a special uniform and a
mask to avoid chemical poisoning. Her job is quite physically demanding.
2. Fundamental changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be
avoided.
3. The company is fortunate to have such highly skilled workers.
4. Prices have rocketed! There has been a solid increase in prices.
5. If you want to master your profession, you need to learn something new
every day. This can be called a life-long training.
6. My grandma will never learn how to use a computer because she finds it
rather hard to do. She says modern technology is very sophisticated.
7. An employee who can be on-line with his or her employer, eliminating the
need to work in an office, can be called a "long-distance worker".
8. Wearing short skirts was considered intolerable a century ago.
9. Jack is always snowed under at work because he can never decide the order
in which to perform tasks. He should structure his own working hours. hours.
10. The belugas of the St Lawrence may now number only 400, and their
population is shrinking year by year. They are certainly heading for extinction.
11. In this cruel world of global competition one has to try hard to earn their
bread in the marketplace.
12. In times of an economic crisis it’s almost impossible to find a lucrative job.
So, the employment outlook is utterly bleak.
13. There are dozens of classified ads printed in the evening edition of this
newspaper. The newspaper bulges with advertisements.

Ex 8.

The texts are about a modern job market. They describe the real-time situation
around the whole world, popular tendencies in the world’s economic. It’s
crucial to get into the idea of the texts in order to realize modern circumstances
and the position we are in. I agree with the definition “second industrial
revolution”. Core ideas stress out the points of the market that are usually not
visible to one’s eye. They also explain the sinking and the rising of certain
positions and openings.

Ex. 16

 to fire
 to bungle
 to resign
 to ask yourself
 to choose a job that offered personal satisfaction and opportunity for
growth but didn’t pay much
 to be a newcomer
 to gain working experience
 to do shift work
 to have a nine-to-five job
 to take a maternity leave/paternity leave
 to earn money for living
 to start all over
 to hope for a miracle
 to get a job through acquaintances
 careers counselling
 to fill out an application form for filling a vacancy
 to be invited for an interview
 positions are being filled quickly
 a solid team
 to be short-listed for a job
 to compline a resumé
 a dead-end job
 to climbe to the top of the career ladder
 to have a very heavy workload
 to talk shop
 to be stuck behind a desk
 spread of information technology
 computer has substituted a lot of paperwork
 a "long-distance worker"
 computer fluency and competence in math
 get a solid education and salable skills
 to represent
 to stay in with modern technologies
 to face challenges
 limited prospects
 to combine house chores and work
 to be overloaded with social roles
 to do the majority of household chores
 to be socially accepted
 to take the major load