Careers

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Careers

• Aims
• To learn how to talk about careers
• To learn how to write a curriculum vitae
• To practise doing interviews

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• Youve got 2 minutes to think of as many jobs as
  possible.
• Name two professions that are overpaid
  (preplacen).
• Name two professions that are underpaid.
• Name two professions usually admired by children.

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How many of these can you translate into Serbian?

• accountant
• actor
• architect
• assistant
• baker
• builder
• butcher
• computer programmer
• dentist
• bus / taxi / train driver
• electrician
• engineer
• hairdresser
• journalist

• judge
• lawyer
• miner
• news reader / news presenter
• nurse
• plumber
• police officer
• politician
• scientist
• secretary
• surgeon
• tourist guide
• vet
• waiter

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How many of these can you translate into Serbian?

• accountant racunovodja
• actor glumac
• architect arhitekta
• assistant asistent, sekretar, pomocnik
• baker pekar
• builder gradjevinac
• butcher mesar
• computer programmer
• dentist zubar
• bus / taxi / train driver
• electrician elektricar
• Engineer inzenjer
• hairdresser frizer
• journalist novinar

• judge sudija
• lawyer advokat
• miner rudar
• news reader / news presenter spiker
• nurse medicinska sestra
• plumber vodoinstalater
• police officer policajac
• politician politicar
• scientist naucnik
• secretary sekretar
• surgeon hirurg
• tourist guide turisticki vodic
• vet veterinar
• waiter konobar

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Page 94 Vocabulary

• aid pomoc
• flood poplava
• tree-planting sadjenje drveca
• look after paziti
• survey posmatranje, proucavanje
• apply for prijaviti se za nesto
• application prijava
• applicant kandidat

• I enclose prilazem
• committed posvecen
• participate ucestvovati
• backgrounds poreklo, okruzenje
• since posto
• due to zbog
• first aid prva pomoc
• driving licence vozacka dozvola

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CURRICULUM VITAE 1 Personal Information Name
Adam Jones Date of Birth 15.05.83 Nationality
British Address Honeysuckle Cottage, Tiverton,
Devon DY36H Education and Qualifications Secondary
school Cambridge, 1994-2001 A levels French
(A), Spanish (B), English Literature
(D) Experience Voluntary work 1999 - helping in
Tiverton old peoples home. Other Skills Driving
licence Music grade 6 (piano) Interests Playing
the piano singing in local choir cooking
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CURRICULUM VITAE 1 ____________________________ Na
me Adam Jones Date of Birth 15.05.83 Nationality
British Address Honeysuckle Cottage, Tiverton,
Devon DY36H _______________________________ Second
ary school Cambridge, 1994-2001 A
levels French (A), Spanish (B), English
Literature (D) _________________________ Voluntary
work 1999 - helping in Tiverton old peoples
home. _____________________________ Driving
licence Music grade 6 (piano) ___________________
_______ Playing the piano singing in local
choir cooking
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Funny CVs
"Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget
details."
"Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.
"It's best for employers that I not work with
people." "Let's meet , so you can 'ooh' and
'aah' over my experience."
"Personal interests donating blood. Fourteen
gallons so far."
Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as
'job-hopping'. I have never quit a job."
"Reason for leaving last job They insisted that
all employees get to work by 845 am every
morning. I couldn't work under those conditions."
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Vocabulary Multi-part verbs p. 88

• put on (obuci)
• go out izaci
• write down zabeleziti, zapisati
• find out saznati
• turn up doci, pojaviti se
• take down (notes) hvatati beleske
• sit down sesti
• get up ustati
• make up izmisljati
• go into (a lot of detail) detaljisati
• speak up govoriti glasno i jasno
• sit up sedeti uspravno