Стр.69 Unit 8 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс

Задача

Look at the photos of Pete and Elisa and answer the questions.
What jobs do the two people have?
Do you think they enjoy their jobs?
Read the text quickly. Which sentence best describes the general idea of the text?
1. Two young people explain how to find well-paid jobs.
2. Two young people describe their jobs.
Read the questions. Which key words will help you find the answers?
1. Do you ever have any problems in your job?
2. Do you think you’ll have the same job ten years from now?
3. How did you find such an unusual job?
4. How hard do you work?
5. What do you do?
6. What do you like about your job?
7. What’s the money like?
Look at the key words you found in Exercise 3. Use them to match questions 1–7 to sections a–g of the text.
Read before and after the key words and expressions in the text to answer the questions in Exercise 3.
Complete the sentences in Train Your Brain with the words and phrases below. Look at Exercises 2–5 to help you.
Find the main idea; similar ideas; before and after.
Read the texts again as you listen to them and use the advice in Train Your Brain to answer these questions.
1. Why do Pete’s friends think he’s lucky?
2. Why did his girlfriend leave him?
3. Why does he think he will leave his job eventually?
4. What did Elisa do before she started working on the ship?
5. What’s the best thing about her job?
6. Why does she still live with her parents?
Use the advice in Train Your Brain and decide who the statements correspond to: Pete, Elisa or both?
1. Pete’s job used to be a hobby.
2. Both would like to earn more money.
3. Pete works for himself.
4. Elisa likes the people she works with.
5. Elisa would like to have enough money to live on her own.
6. Both is not sure if they wants to keep the same job in the future.
Find words and phrases 1–7 in the text and check their meaning. Then use them to complete sentences a–e.
1. a part-time job
2. a break
3. earn
4. sack
5. turn up
6. a pay rise
7. a promotion
Would you like to have a job with an unusual timetable? Why? / Why not? Discuss with a partner.

Подробный ответ

2. 2) Two young people describe their jobs.

1. the main idea
2. Find
3. similar ideas
4. before and after

His friends think he’s lucky because he doesn’t work nine to five.
His girlfriend left him because she wanted to spend more time with him in the evenings, but he couldn’t.
He thinks he will leave his job eventually because it’s a job for young people and he thinks it’s good to change.
Before she started working on the ship, she had a part-time job teaching aerobics.
The best thing about her job is that she has six months’ holiday every year.
She still lives with her parents because she doesn’t earn enough money to keep a flat.