What are the important things for you in work?

 Ar­range these aspects in order of importance and add some more things you think are important (Work in pairs):

• job satisfaction.

• earning plenty of money.

• having pleasant co- -workers /colleagues.

• good administration and good labor relations.

• good working conditions: enough space, light, heat and time, not too much noise and so on.

• meeting people.

• earning enough money.

• security.

• a challenging interesting and creative job.

• responsibility.

• opportunities to travel.

• holidays.

Read the following proverbs and sayings.

Discuss them in pairs. Which of them, do you think, are closest to the Russian equivalents? Then compare your variants with the translation*.

· No pain, no gain.

· Business before pleasure.

· If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.

· To take up everything is to accomplish nothing.

· Well begun is half done.

· To work with the left hand.

· To be busy as a bee.

· To know something like the palm on one hand.

· By fits and starts.

· You never know what you can do till you try.

· The labourer is worthy of his hire.

· Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

· Where there is a will, there is a way.

· Jack of all trades, master of none.

· Twelve trades – fourteen misfortunes.

· A man who knows seven trades is a man without a trade.

· The man who knows many trades will finally become a beggar.

4. Read some advertisements about job opportunities.

Which of them do you find interesting and why?

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