Read the CV again and answer the following questions

1. What do you notice about the way the profile is written?

2. Which exchange program might he have found the most difficult? Why?

3. What kind of jobs do you think he might be suitable for?

3) Vadim is going to be infiltrated for a job in the marketing department of a British company that exports British products to Russia. They require a fluent Russian speaker, with advanced English and experience in finace and marketing. Rewrite Vadim’s profile to help him get this job. Describe his achievements in the previous job positions. Make emphasis on the qualities and experience necessary for the job.

Use the bulk of vocabulary below.

Prompts Verbs: Achieve, accomplish, advance to, activate, assist, complete, conduct, construct. contribute, control, coordinate, create, design, determine, develop, direct, establish, expand, explore, implement, improve, increase, initiate, introduce, invent, investigate, launch, maintain, manage, modernize, monitor, negotiate, obtain, organize, participate, perfect, perform, pioneer. plan, prepare, produce, promote, publish, recruit, reduce, reorganize, research, revise, set up, solve, stabilize, standardize, stimulate, strengthen, succeed in, supervise, survey, target, update, upgrade

Descriptive words: Active, adaptable, aggressive, ambitious, articulate, career-oriented, conscientious, cooperative, creative, decision maker, dynamic, easy-going, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, even-tempered, flexible, goal-oriented, go-getter, hard-worker, imaginative, innovative, intelligent, intuitive, leadership ability, loyal, modest, optimistic, pace-setter, people-oriented, perceptive, persevering, personable, problem-solver, punctual, reliable, resourceful, self-motivated, self-reliant, self-starter, sociable, tactful, trouble-shooter, versatile, well-groomed, well-organized

№13. Ponder on the following questions.

1) The job is as difficult to lose and to find. Some people tend to give up well-paid (downshifting) and even high-powered jobs. What can be the reasons for it?

2) What features of character to your mind the politician should possess? Use the vocabulary mentioned in ex.12.

3) In the world history there are cases when presidents of world powers resigned. In particular, Richard Niхon, resigned in 1974.Among the reasons for this the most common reason mentioned is additional revelations of Watergate scandal.

4) Can you name cases from the current history of Russia when presidents resigned?

№14. Your are going to read the article about the first president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin.

BORIS YELTSIN

The Economist, April 26, 2007

He was almost dead when his mother scooped him out of the baptismal font in a small village in the Urals. The local priest, plied with liquor all morning by happy parents, had dunked the baby in the water and forgotten him. The boy survived and was christened Boris, a fighter.

The story may be legend, but survival against the odds was a constant in Boris Yeltsin's life. He nearly killed himself dismantling a grenade; he played cards with criminals on the roofs of speeding trains; he almost lost his life to diehard Communists. But like some character from a Russian fairy tale, he always came through.

He survived, too, the Soviet experiment that hoped to create a new man and to root out everything human and natural. Moreover, it fell to him to end this experiment and the system that lay behind it. Though Mr Yeltsin was a Communist Party boss, he never turned into Homo sovieticus; he preserved the qualities and sensibilities of a Russian man. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it, he was almost too Russian. He was spontaneous, erratic, frequently drunk, talented, sincere, witty, full-hearted. His hugeness as a character matched the scale of the changes in his country.

Mr Yeltsin thrived on crises, seeming bored when things were normal. Gut instinct, rather than reason, guided him. He had profound faith in Russia and tried to encourage its best impulses; but he also knew its darker side, for his personal history was his country's. Under Stalin's collectivisation his grandfather was pronounced a kulak—a rich peasant—stripped of his possessions and sentenced to forced labour. His father spent three years in the gulag, a fact which Mr Yeltsin concealed for over 30 years. The family was driven off its land and into barracks where a goat was the only source of heat. There he grew up with 20 other families, one to each room and with a single lavatory.

He believed in freedom and rejected communism not because he was a libertarian, but because he felt freedom was part of human nature. His hatred of Stalinism was instinctive, not intellectual. He cursed fascism and Stalinism in the same breath, without putting so much as a comma between them.

When Mikhail Gorbachev, then the Soviet president, launched perestroika and glasnost in the mid-1980s, Mr Yeltsin—then the party boss in Moscow—embraced them wholeheartedly. But Mr Gorbachev wanted gradual reform. Mr Yeltsin had less patience. Sensing early that the system was doomed, he broke with the Soviet power structure in 1987, publicly criticised Mr Gorbachev, was disgraced and fired. Four years later, to everyone's astonishment, he stormed back—this time as the first democratically elected president of Russia, then still one of 15 Soviet republics.

One picture captivated the world: Mr Yeltsin on top of a tank, opposing the communist coup in 1991, charismatic, brave, defiant. Later there would be darker images: a bloated, inebriated figure who grabbed a conductor's baton at a public ceremony in Berlin, or goosed the ladies at state receptions. But in August 1991 Russia rallied behind its president. People loved Yeltsin like no other Russian leader—without fear. They would hate him too, when times got tough, without fear. They took him personally, for he was one of them.