Exercise 1. Answer the questions about Alexandra

1) Where is she from?

2) Did she always want to be a chef?

3) What was her first position?

4) Was her first salary high?

5) What were the advantages of her first job?

6) Did it take long until she was promoted?

7) How many employees did she have under her control?

8) Why did she left her first job?

9) Did she resign from her second position or was she told to leave?

10) What was her third place of work?

11) Did she like her job in the restaurant from the very beginning?

12) What were her duties in the restaurant besides cooking?

13) What is the key to Alexandra’s success?

Exercise 2. What do these numbers mean to Alexandra Pappas’ life? Find the answer in the UNIT.

1) two years

2) three years

3) five years

4) twenty years

5) a month

6) six months

7) five employees

8) ten restaurants

9) thirty years old

10) eighty years old

Exercise 3. Replace the words in italics with their synonyms from the UNIT.

1) When I was young I wrote an official request for a job of a pilot but I got a polite refusal.

2) I have been working here my whole life: I started 30 years ago as a very junior person in the company.

3) When I started my career 10 years ago I had a very low salary – it was almost nothing.

4) I think he’s a very promising worker; his future possibilities in the job are really great.

5) Nobody expected her to be given a higher position with more money and responsibility so soon.

6) How many workers are under your control?

7) What do you think of your boss? Do you like him?

8) I think I’m fed up with my job – it is so boring! I need a new exciting situation.

9) I’m not sure I would always like working in Russia. One day I would like to go to another country.

10) It goes without saying that such job includes a lot of foreign travel.

11) She was always late at work that’s why the company sacked her.

12) My grand mother is 69 years old but she’s not going to stop working completely.

13) When I last saw Jim he was still without a job and ready for any kind of work.