3. Complete the sentences using the words from the Useful Language (the first letter is given):

1. The next item on the a…………… is the question of security.

2. The employees are s…………… whether they will have new boss or not.

3. We will send you written c…………… of our offer shortly.

4. The CEO r…………… an idea that he should give a pay rise to his employees.

5. Women are better at m…………… than men.

6. What p…………… of women return to work after having a baby?

7. The t…………… of our advertising campaign is to promote the product.

8. The e…………… walls of the house were painted green.

9. Don’t w…………… t…………… on chatting over the phone, you should p…………… your s…………… carefully and follow it.

10. It is expensive to t…………… such heavy items.

READING

4. Read the text and then decide whether these statements are true or false.

1. Philomena had always wanted to be a market research consultant, but she soon found the job too stressful.

2. One day, she realized she was not giving enough care to her husband because of her job.

3. It took her more than 5 year to achieve good work-life balance.

4. These days she works up to 70 hours a week, but she is happy.

Slow down, you move too fast

(1)Philomena Tan knows all about stress. By her 30-s, she was a successful, highly paid market research consultant who sometimes worked till 10 p.m. “We had a lot of meeting and deadlines; we had to win projects so I was writing proposals, making presentation, supervising staff,” she says.

(2)For a long while, she loved her job and there were perks – lots of travel, for instance - but it was never what she had planned to do with her life. Like so many others, she just got involved in a career that had started accidentally.

(3)Tan studied psychology, but she was also good with computers and statistics. In the early 1980s, these were a rare and valuable combination of skills, so Tan made a steady progress up the corporate ladder. But the turning point came the year she spent the entire week of her husband’s birthday in Brisbane running market research groups while he was home alone in Melbourne.

(4)It made her examine her life and think about what she was really contributing to society. Tan planned her escape carefully. She saved money and returned to study. Decade later, it has all come together and she is happy. The research she did for a doctorate in psychology not only added to her qualification as a psychologist and psychotherapist, but gave her the raw material for her first book, Leaving the Rat Race to Get a Life, a book for anyone seriously considering changing the pace of their lives.

(5)These days Tan is in private practice, she does yoga and chooses her own hours. She rarely works more than 4 days a week and, because she sees clients in the evening, she keeps her afternoons free to catch up with reading, meet with friends or research her next book. She is happy. “When you work up to 70 hours a week, you don’t have time for this,” she says.

V. Match the words(1-10) with their definitions (a-j):

1.accidentally	a. to give something in order to achieve smth together with other people
2.contribute	b. to watch an activity to make certain that everything is done correctly
3.corporate ladder	c. to consider a person or thing in detail in order to discover smth about them
4.escape	d. by chance or by mistake
5.examine	e. the speed at which someone or something moves
6.pace	f. when someone succeeds in getting out of a place or a bad situation
7.rare	g. a series of increasingly important jobs that someone can do within a company
8.rat race	h. not common
9.realize	i. a way of life, in which people compete with each other for power and money
10.supervise	j. to understand a situation, sometimes suddenly

6. Find the English equivalents of the Russian words below in the text.

1. высокооплачиваемый (para 1)

2. например (para 2)

3. ценный (para 3)

4. решающий момент (para 3)

5. скопить денег (para 4)

6. исходный материал (para 4)

7. частная практика (para 5)

6. Complete the phrases with the given verbs:

do (x2), keep, make (x2), spend

1. to …………… a presentation

2. to …………… a week somewhere

3. to …………… a research

4. to …………… yoga

5. to …………… steady progress

6. Answer the following questions:

1. What was Tan doing as a market research consultant?

2. What kind of perks did Tan have?

3. When did the turning point in Tan’s career come?

4. For whom the book Leaving the Rat Race to Get a Life is written?

5. What work schedule does Tan have now?

6. Discussion points:

1. What can people do to have a good work-life balance?

2. Do you prefer a slow or a fast pace of life? Why?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working a lot of time?

4. What three questions would you like to ask to Philomena Tan if you could interview her?

GRAMMAR

II-й тип условных предложений.

 

Условные предложения этого типа выражают нереальность или совершенно малую вероятность осуществления условия, относящегося к настоящему или будущему времени. Говорящий употребляет эту модель тогда, когда хочет сообщить, что необходимые условия для выполнения чего-либо практически отсутствуют, очень малы, а иногда вообще нереальны и противоречат действительности. На русский язык переводятся сослагательным наклонением ( формой прошедшего времени с частицей бы).

Придаточное предложение: форма совпадающая с Past Indefinite/Cont. (Subjunctive I -Past Subjunctive) Главное предложение: would/ should/ could/ might + инфинитив (Subjunctive II-1)

 

Примечание: В разговорной речи вместо should и would употребляется сокращенная форма ’d.

If I got rich, I’d (would/should) travel round the world.	Если бы я разбогател, я бы отправился в кругосветное путешествие.
If it were possible, I would (should) do it.	Если бы это было возможно, я сделал бы это.
If you worked hard, you would succeed.	Если бы вы упорно трудились, вы преуспели бы.

 

 

Модальные глаголы could и might могут заменять would/ should в главном предложении.

If I knew her telephone number, I could phone her.	Если бы я знал номер ее телефона, я бы мог позвонить ей.
If we had more time, we could wait for him.	Если бы у нас было больше времени, мы могли бы подождать его.

 

Модальные глаголы could и might могут также употребляться и в придаточных предложениях, не нарушая общего правила: в придаточном - Subjunctive I, в главном - Subjunctive II. Так как, например, could в придаточном - это форма совпадающая с Past Indefinite (Past Subjunctive) от глагола can.

If he could, he would help us.

Если бы он мог, то он помог бы нам.

  

Употребление в вежливых формах.

Если хотят, чтобы просьба или предложение звучали не слишком прямолинейно, фраза может строится в сослагательном наклонении:

Would you mind…	Вы не против…
Would you mind if I opened the window a little?	Вы бы не возражали, если бы я немного приоткрыл окно?

 

Оборот If I were you

Этот оборот используется тогда, когда хотят дать совет: If I were you/ in your place/ in your shoes – на вашем (бы) месте; (форма were может заменяться на was).

If I were you, I would go there.	На твоем месте я бы пошла туда.
If I were you, I’d see a doctor.	На вашем месте я бы показался врачу.
I wouldn’t (shouldn’t) do that if I were you.	Я бы не делал этого, если бы был на твоем месте.