Reading. Choosing A Profession

Choosing a Profession.
Read the text.
Find Russian equivalents to the English phrases in italics.
Make your own story using the phrases.
1. School teaches us many different subjects and many other important things.
2. It helps us to become good citizens of our country, it helps us to discover our special talents and forms our character.
3. School encourages boys and girls to make serious choices of their future occupations.
4. A young person can best approach the future when enriched with a knowledge of many different subjects.
5. Some school subjects I feel are very important to study for example, Foreign Languages and Computer Science.
6. A knowledge of foreign languages and foreign cultures grows in importance nowadays.
7. Computer instruction is conducted in special computer classes.
8. Its aims include an understanding of computers and their application, familiarity with the keyboard and development of the skills necessary to communicate with computers. Programming is taught, and students learn to change programmes.
9. When deciding our future career we must be realistic about our interests and abilities.
10. They must satisfy the requirements of the job, or we have to develop these qualities in ourselves before making a final decision.
11. For example, if you want to choose a medicine as your future profession you must be good at science, be patient, be attentive to people and have a strong desire to serve them.
12. Our parents, relations, teachers, other more experienced people can guide and help us to make a decision concerning our future plans.
13. It is very helpful and valuable to talk to someone who is following the career which interests us.
14. We can ask him/her to describe his/her daily work and other questions for further details.
15. We can also ask him whether his job requires a lot of skills, knowledge, education or practice and where he acquired them.
16. He can advise us to do something to become better acquainted with this trade or profession.
17. If our parents doubt that we`ll succeed they try to persuade us that we are not suited for this career and get us to change our mind.
18. It is an advantage to choose our future career while at school.
19. It gives us a goal to work, towards and enables us to choose a right suitable course of study.
20. Choosing a career and getting a job are two of the most important things any person does in a life time.