UNUSUAL PEOPLE
UNUSUAL JOBS
Steve and Stella Baker live in California. They’ve got two small
children, and they are an average American family, except for one thing: she
goes to work, he stays at home and looks after the children. Our reporter spoke
to Steve and Stella at their home in San Diego:
“My wife has a very good job. She’s an electronics engineer, and she
works for the US Navy here. So she works, and I stay at home and look after the
children.”
Jim Macartney is a helicopter pilot. He’s British, but he lives and
works in Africa.
“I work for the hospital here. I take a doctor and two nurses in my
helicopter to the jungle. There are no roads in the jungle . only rivers. People
go by helicopter or by boat,
or they walk.”
Mrs. Betty Brown is sixty-two. She’s a housewife, and a grandmother and
a student! Mrs. Brown lives in Oxford, England, and goes to the University
there. She studies Japanese, and she is the first in her class. We asked Mrs.
Brown how she learns Japanese.
“My son lives in Japan, he teaches English in Tokyo and sends me
Japanese magazines and newspapers, videos of Japanese TV programmes and
cassettes of Japanese radio programmes.”
1 - According to the
text, chose the correct alternative:
a) Stella and Steve have
two big children.
b) Stella Baker is
sixty-two.
c) Steve looks after his
wife.
d) Mrs. Brown’s son teaches
English.
e) Steve works in an
office.
2 - According to the text,
choose the alternative that correctly describes the people’s occupations:
a) Mrs. Brown is a nurse.
b) Stella is an electronic
engineer.
c) Jim is a teacher.
d) Steve is a doctor.
e) Steve is a pilot.
3 - According to the text,
choose the alternatives which contain a correct answer for the question:
Where do they live?
a) Mrs. Brown lives in
Japan.
b) Jim lives in England.
c) Steve lives in Oxford.
d) Mrs. Brown’s son lives
in Japan.
e) Stella lives in Africa.
4 - Escolha a alternativa que melhor completa a questão:
Listen, Julia! The
telephone is ringing. Go __________it.
Please, write your name
under the topic for the lecture you want to ___________ .
a. attend / attend
b. answer / hear
c. answer / attend
d. attend / see
e. pick / participate
translate the text e answer the questions
Get into a comfortable, relaxed position. / Shut your
eyes and turn
your attention inwards. / Think about that assertive
experience
(real or imagined, yours or someone else’s) and really
get
into it. / Re-live it as though you are there all over
again. / See
everything there is to see, / the face of the other person or
people / and how they’re responding to you. / Hear the
sound of your own voice as you speak. / Hear the sound
of
any other voices. / Feel really good about the
situation. / Feel
confident and assertive / and enjoy the feeling. / And
when
you’re deeply involved in those feelings, capture them
for a
few seconds with your word, image or gesture. / Stay
in the
experience a while longer but take away the word,
image or
gesture. / And now come slowly and gently back to the
room.
Success Over
Stress by Jane Revell
Questions:
1. According to the text, choose the right
alternative.
a) The text will teach you to be deeply involved in
your
feelings through a technique that works your
assertiveness through relaxation and gestures meant to
focus on question-response activities.
b) The text is instructing you to remember a time when
you were able to be honest with someone, or a time
when you felt really confident about saying something
to someone.
c) The text is showing you how to relax before you
really
have the chance to get involved with someone’s image
or self-esteem for a period of time.
d) The text shows you how to capture someone’s image
or gesture as soon as this person is out of sight and
his/her assertive personality interferes in your
attention
inwards.
e) The text helps you test your ability to go further
into
your feelings and experiment with your five senses:
speaking, hearing, smelling, seeing and touching. The
result will make you feel more confident and
assertive.
2. If a person is
assertive,
a) he/she works hard and conscientiously in order to
achieve good results.
b) he/she makes a decision or forms a conclusion based
on the facts only and does not allow himself/herself
to
be influenced by his/her own personal feelings or
experiences.
c) he/she makes sensible decisions and is good at
dealing
and solving problems.
d) he/she makes his/her own decisions about his/her
life,
without relying on others for help, advice or further
support.
e) he/she speaks and acts firmly and confidently in
company, or in his/her relations with others, so that
people listen to him/her and take notice of him/her.
Get into a comfortable, relaxed position. / Shut your
eyes and turn
your attention inwards. / Think about that assertive
experience
(real or imagined, yours or someone else’s) and really
get
into it. / Re-live it as though you are there all over
again. / See
everything there is to see, / the face of the other person or
people / and how they’re responding to you. / Hear the
sound of your own voice as you speak. / Hear the sound
of
any other voices. / Feel really good about the
situation. / Feel
confident and assertive / and enjoy the feeling. / And
when
you’re deeply involved in those feelings, capture them
for a
few seconds with your word, image or gesture. / Stay
in the
experience a while longer but take away the word,
image or
gesture. / And now come slowly and gently back to the
room.
Success Over
Stress by Jane Revell
Questions:
1. According to the text, choose the right
alternative.
a) The text will teach you to be deeply involved in
your
feelings through a technique that works your
assertiveness through relaxation and gestures meant to
focus on question-response activities.
b) The text is instructing you to remember a time when
you were able to be honest with someone, or a time
when you felt really confident about saying something
to someone.
c) The text is showing you how to relax before you
really
have the chance to get involved with someone’s image
or self-esteem for a period of time.
d) The text shows you how to capture someone’s image
or gesture as soon as this person is out of sight and
his/her assertive personality interferes in your
attention
inwards.
e) The text helps you test your ability to go further
into
your feelings and experiment with your five senses:
speaking, hearing, smelling, seeing and touching. The
result will make you feel more confident and
assertive.
2. If a person is
assertive,
a) he/she works hard and conscientiously in order to
achieve good results.
b) he/she makes a decision or forms a conclusion based
on the facts only and does not allow himself/herself
to
be influenced by his/her own personal feelings or
experiences.
c) he/she makes sensible decisions and is good at
dealing
and solving problems.
d) he/she makes his/her own decisions about his/her
life,
without relying on others for help, advice or further
support.
e) he/she speaks and acts firmly and confidently in
company, or in his/her relations with others, so that
people listen to him/her and take notice of him/her.
