Ex 1. Answer the questions and do the assignments

1. What’s the definition between a full-time and part-time job?

2. Do you think working part-time is useful for student? For you personally?

3. Give reasons for and against students’ working part-time.

4. Study the labour market in Russia and find out the best part-time jobs suitable for students.

Ex 2. Work in pairs. Make up dialogues discussing plusses and minuses of working part-time for students.

Ex 3. Role play: You are a potential employer (choose the sphere yourself) and would be glad to hire a few students for part-time employments. Hold an interview with your potential employees trying to find out the following information:

- whether they are successful students (their academic performance);

- their basic skills;

- their interests and hobbies;

- how they are going to combine studies and work;

- their motivation;

- how much time they can devote to work;

- the qualities of their characters that could be useful for the job;

These words and word-combinations may help you: an applicant, a would-be-boss, an application, a CV, to be highly motivated, to manage a tight schedule, a dire need for additional resources, to learn valuable lessons, to broaden one’s scope, to be hourly paid, punctuality, diligence, responsibility, accuracy, discipline, an ability to work under the strain.