– Не будет преувеличением сказать, что именно на этот товар – самый высокий спрос.

– Вы увлекаетесь историей? – Да, в некоторой степени.

– Для этого похода нам необходимо закупить снаряжение.

– Вы наверняка слышали об этом громком деле. – Да, все газеты писали об этом.

– Мой дядя – подполковник в запасе.

– Я думаю, что вам, как человеку, у которого мало опыта стоит подать заявление на стажировку в этой организации. Возможно, позднее вас могут принять на полный рабочий день.

– Мне кажется, он темнит.

It (to amaze) me, in retrospect, when I (to consider) how readily I (to be engage): no questions put, no reference asked for. Perhaps, I (to inspire) confidence. I never before (to attempt) to get a job. Getting a job (to be) something which my friends occasionally (to try) to do, and which always (to seem) to be a matter of slow and difficult negotiations or even intrigue. Indeed, it (to be) the spectacle of their ill success which, together with my own temperament, chiefly (to deter) me from any essays in this direction. It never (to occur) to me that it might be possible to get a job simply by going and asking for it, and in any normal state of mind I would never even have made the attempt. You (to point) out, and quite rightly that the job into which I (to step) so easily (to be) in a category not only unskilled but unpopular where a desperate shortage of candidates might well secure the immediate engagement of anyone other than a total paralytic; whereas what my friends perhaps (to find) is so difficult to become (to be) higher civil servants, columnists on the London dailies, officials or the British Council, fellows of colleges, or governors of the BBC. This (to be) true. I nevertheless (to feel) impressed, and not only by my having got the job, but also by the efficient way in which I (to turn) out to be able to perform it.

Discussion point: For what social groups do you think finding a job is most difficult? What do you think is important in job searching process?

Each day of… year more than 4000 Americans reach …age of sixty-five. On that day they are not older, either physically or mentally, than they were …day before, and most of them still think of themselves as «middle-aged». But in… literature of sociologists they have moved abruptly into… new category – «…aged» or «…eldery». Henceforth they will be treated as «old» by both employers and governmental bureaucracies.

They can now be discharged without… hearing regardless of their health, vigor, intelligence, or alertness. It is not called «firing» – we prefer… euphemism «mandatory requirement» – but …result is… same: denial of… right to continue working at… job one knows best. And while earlier periods of unemployment were temporary, this one is permanent. …man or woman who reaches …age of sixty-five in good health suddenly realizes that he or she faces perhaps twenty years of unemployment – …period as long as infancy, childhood, and adolescence combined. However much he may enjoy… leisure and may have looked forward to vacations during his working years, he knows that this vacation is going to be much too long.

Discussion point: The Government of the RF has been developing the bill for later retirement in age. Think over social consequences that might be associated with it. Weighs pros and cons of it.