MY FUTURE PLANS (1)

              This year I am going to leave school. Before people leave school, they understand that the time to choose their future profession has already come. It’s not an easy task to make a right choice.

              Someone goes further in his education and enter an insti­tute, university or college. Other can start a working career, go into business. There are many universities and institutes in every big city. Our city is not an exception.

              If we want to get a professional training, we can enter a tech­nical college. There is a huge number of professions to choose. But we should take our time while choosing our future profes­sion. Some children choose profession their parents want, oth­ers do it in their own way while choosing their profession and there are some boys and girls, who want nothing. Anyway it is a dilemma for all the family. Fathers usually want their children to follow their footsteps. Mothers don’t want their sons and daughters to leave the native town or city. So, they persuade kids to enter local colleges and universities or institutes. To find out the best from the best, we should work a lot.

              Because of the wide difference in jobs, we should find out all available information about any possible job. We also need to think about how well we can do what we would like to do. We have got to know the demand for professions on the local employment market. To make the right choice, we should con­sider our possibilities, characters and abilities. To become a good doctor, you must be patient, easygoing and smart. The teacher’s work requires love for children, much patience, pro­found knowledge of subjects and the ability to explain and to teach. Detective’s job is very stressful. He must be brave, rea­sonable, smart, fair and strong and have extraordinary brains.

              By the beginning of the last year, I wanted to become a doc­tor. I thought it was a very prestigious profession. I was good at biology and zoology at the 8 and 9 forms. I wanted to help people, who had problems with their health. I know that a doc­tor should be noble in work and life, kind and attentive to peo­ple, honest and prudent. A doctor who is selfish and dishonest can’t be good at his profession. I tried to do my best to develop good characters in myself.

              Now, I have already decided what to do. I’d like to be a teacher. I know that it is very difficult to be a good teacher. It is a hard profession. You should know perfectly the subject you teach, you must be well-educated and well-informed. A good teacher develops in his students a desire for knowledge and love for truth and beauty. It is a great responsibility to educate the children. I think that’s the reason why teachers are deeply respected.

             More and more people realize that every educated person should know a foreign language. That is why I’m going to be­come a teacher of English. I like English. I liked it from the first lesson we first started learning it and it is still my favou­rite subject. I will try to enter the department of foreign lan­guages at the University.

             We study at universities or institutes to become a specia­list for five years. If you want a bachelor degree, you have to study four years. After your final exams have passed, you are a qualified specialist. Some students keep studying and enter a post-graduate course to follow an academic career. Most uni­versity graduates take up teaching and return to school. I know that a teacher’s job is quite difficult. A teacher can’t say, that he knows everything. Professional teacher is an experienced teacher. So, have graduated from a university or institute, young specialists have many things to do to become a real pro­fessional teacher, an example of competence.

               So, choosing a career and then getting a job are two things, any person does in his lifetime.

               If we don’t think about the future, we won’t have one.

QUESTIONS:

1. When do people understand that the time to choose fu­ture profession has already come?

2. Where do people enter if they want to get a professional training?

3. Do all children choose their future professions in their own way?

4. Why do some parents persuade their kids to enter local colleges and universities or institutes?

5. Why should we take our time while choosing our future profession?

6. What does the teacher’s work require?

7. Why have I decided to become a teacher of English?

VOCABULARY:

to leave (past left, p.p. left) school — заканчивать школу

to go (past went, p.p. gone) into business — заняться бизнесом

professional training — профессиональная подготовка

huge — огромный, большой

to take (past took, p.p. taken) time — неспешить

dilemma — дилемма, затруднительное положение

to follow smb. footsteps — следовать по чьим-л. cтопам

to persuade — убеждать, уговаривать

wide — широкий, обширный, большой

demand — потребность, спрос

employment market — рынок труда

to consider — считать, полагать

patient — пациент, больной; терпеливый

easygoing — легко ладящий с людьми

smart — разумный, умный

to require — требовать

profound — глубокий

knowledge — знание, познание

stressful — стрессовый

brave — храбрый, смелый

fair — честный, светлый

extraordinary — экстраординарный, неординарный, необычный

prestigious — престижный

attentive — внимательный

honest — честный

prudent — благоразумный, предусмотрительный

selfish — эгоистичный

dishonest — нечестный

to develop — развивать, совершенствовать

desire — мечта, желание

responsibility — ответственность

bachelor degree — степень бакалавра

post-graduate course — зд.аспирантура

to graduate from — заканчивать

competence — компетенция