Reading

Read the text “Job swaps” and add your opinion about advantages of job swapping.

The purpose of job swapping or shadowing activities is to learn actively from a colleague, business partner or customer about their job. This will raise awareness of exactly what colleagues do every day, and encourage better communications between departments. It will not be practical for a complete job swap to take place at all times so it is likely that the day would be a combination of job swapping and job shadowing. The job swaps can take place within an organization or with a customer or supplier.

The personal and business benefits can include:

• Improves internal communications

• Improves team working

• Encourages ‘out of the box’ thinking

• Helps clarify career development

• Develops coaching and mentoring skills.

Draw up participation forms that ask for second or third choices for job swaps. Include questions like ‘why I think I should be a manager for the day’, and ‘what I think I will learn from this experience’. Also look at any areas of particular interest of anxiety of participants. The answers will help the organizers fit employees to the best swaps for them.

There may be some jobs that cannot be swapped, for example jobs that require specialist training, or involve confidentiality, or working with children. Let people know what is excluded in advance to avoid disappointment. Make sure everyone is given appropriate training and sign a health and safety agreement on fire, health and safety regulations.

 

Pay attention to the meaning of the following proverbs.

 

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.	The strength of a group depends on each individual member.
A change is as good as a rest.	A change in routine is often as refreshing as a break or a holiday.

Listening [1.79] T. 5.14

Before listening to the text try to give translations or definitions of the following words and word combinations.

to be nervous, to be exhausted, to change image, to have hair cut, to interview someone in front of a camera, challenge, to make a stupid mistake, to lose confidence, increase salaries, to give the verdict

 

Do the test about the listened text

1. According to Sally and Adam’s opinion, it was going to be … to teach Jessica to be a reporter in a month.

a) impossible

b) successful

c) pleasure

2. Political reporters need to be …

a) kind

b) shy

c) hard and aggressive

3. She spent the first week learning…

a) how to change image

b) watching political interviews on TV and reading political sections of newspapers.

c) how to be aggressive

4. She spent the second week learning …

a) how to interview people in front of a camera

b) how to visit the Prime Minister

c) how not to lose the confidence

5. What a stupid mistake did she make, while interviewing the politician of the Conservative Party?

a) She lost her confidence

b) She didn’t say “sorry”

c) She said “Labour Party” instead of the “Conservative Party”

6. What did she ask about of the Education Minister?

a) about increasing teachers’ salaries

b) about immediate plans

c) about spending money on education

7. What was the judges’ verdict about reporters’ professionalism?

a) She was a real reporter.

b) They were pretending as journalists.

c) None of them were professional reporters.

8. She is much happier working as a….

a) librarian

b) reporter

c) politician

 

 

Grammar

Герундий образуется от основы глагола с помощью суффикса -ing.

to translate - translating, to read - reading.

	Active	Passive
Indefinite	writing	being written
Perfect	having written	having been written

He likes inviting friends to his place.Он любит приглашать друзей к себе.
He likes being invited to his friends. Он любит, когда его приглашают к себе его друзья.

Инфинитив - начальная форма глагола. (active и passive):

(active) I don’t like to ask questions.	Я не люблю задавать вопросы.
(passive) I don’t like to be asked questions.	Я не люблю, когда мне задают вопросы.