انجليزي متقدم 12 فصل ثاني

1 SPEAKING In pairs, look at the chart on the opposite page and discuss the questions.

1. What can you notice about the top career aspirations for young people?

2. How do they change over the years?

3. Why do you think they change?

Answers Students’ own answers

2 Read the article and compare with your ideas in Exercise 1.

Answers Students’ own answers

3 Complete the sentences with 1-3 words from the article in each gap.

1. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s parents who young children want to copy when it comes to ambitions for their ______.

2. Characters in ______ sometimes provide role models for children not yet at school.

3. At primary school, we start to see factors such as success and ______ play a more significant role in the dream job.

4. However, primary schoolers’ employment goals are usually divorced from reality, with the likelihood of them becoming an actor or astronaut being ______.

5. By secondary school, ideas for how to make money have usually become more realistic with an individual’s characteristics playing more of a role in their choices together with their ______.

6. In recent years, teens have been much more likely to view making money from the internet as increasingly ______.

Answers 1 future careers 2 storybooks 3 money 4 incredibly slim/remarkably low 5 interests and talents 6 valid career options

4 Replace the underlined words and phrases with the correct forms of their highlighted synonyms from the article.

1. This was the job he had desired since his youth.

2. I’d love to work at a space centre, but it’s impossible to realise.

3. Once she started working as a nurse, she knew it was her dream profession.

4. Not many people imagine doing the same job for life.

5. There are a lot of opportunities for being creative in this job.

Answers 1 coveted 2 a pipe dream 3 calling 4 envisage 5 is a lot of scope

5 Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions from the box.

at          back              of             to (x3)

1. I'm apt ______ forget people's names if I'm introduced to too many at once.

2. You can succeed ______ something difficult if you really set your mind ______ it.

3. Watching these cartoons is really rolling ______ the years for me!

4. Many jobs that exist today are destined ______ disappear when the roles are taken over by robots.

5. I coveted that job and was doing my best to get it so my boss was very supportive ______ my promotion.

Answers 1 to 2 at, to 3 back 4 to 5 of

6 REFLECT | Society In pairs, discuss the questions.

1. Do you think it is important for young people today to make early decisions on a future career? Say why.

2. How far do your childhood aspirations relate to your present goals? What has influenced your choices so far?

Answers Students’ own answers