Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 3-5 курсов исторического факультета. Часть 2. Коныгина Г.И. - 17 стр.

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opponent, I can tell you, but once the game was over, he was always the first one to
come over for a laugh and a chat. He’ll certainly be missed - crowds loved him.
Speaker 3 I suppose we didn’t always see eye to eye on matters of discipline, but
there’s no doubt he’s been good for the sport. He seemed to think that we treated him
like a naughty schoolboy - all those fines we gave him and all that - but I suppose from
our point of view he was a bit of a trouble-maker. But he was great to watch and he
certainly brought the crowds in.
Speaker 4 A lot of my colleagues found it hard to get on with him but I always found
him very approachable. I suppose he got fed up with some of the things that were said
about him, and that made him suspicious of talking to people like me. But as the years
went by, I built up a good relationship with him and I think he came to realize that I
wasn’t going to make up things he was supposed to have said, like some of the others
do.
Speaker 5 From an early age it was clear to me that he was going to succeed - in sport,
that is. Nothing else mattered to him, and that could be annoying for me at times, I must
admit. I could never get him to do anything I wanted him to do and he never seemed to
be listening. But in games he could concentrate and he was certainly a winner. He
couldn’t wait to leave, I guess - he obviously thought it was all a waste of time and he
just wanted to get on with playing.
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You will hear part of a radio programme about people’s jobs. For questions 24-30,
choose the best answer A, B or C.
Announcer: In today’s programme about people and their jobs, we hear from Nick
Butler, who is a Tour Leader for High Adventure Holidays, and Alison Gray, the
Managing Director of the company he works for.
Nick: When I first left school, I was all set for a conventional career - I was pushed into
studying accountancy because that’s where my basic skills were at the time. After
starting to travel I realized, I think, that my future would lie in tourism and so I changed
to a tourism course. I thought it would be a good move. During the third year of the
course, we had to work in the tourism industry and to do that I decided to apply to
various adventure tour operators. One of them contacted me and said I was suited to
work as a Tour Leader in Egypt and that was it!
Alison: The sort of person who wants to be a Tour Leader on adventure holidays is one
of probably two particular personalities - either the sort of person who wants to travel
and is outgoing and therefore sees this as a vehicle to allow them to travel - or, they’re
going to be the sort of person that just likes working with people. The kind of
qualifications that are needed are a bit difficult to define. There are no set requirements-
knowing foreign languages is preferable, getting on with people is essential, travel
experience is beneficial. Clearly if I’ve got two candidates to choose from and one has
done a lot of travelling, the person who’s travelled the more will be more likely to get
the job - but even that is not essential. You shouldn’t put somebody off if they haven’t
travelled at all, because in essence if their personality is right, they’re suitable.
Nick: We have to do a lot of research prior to departure to the destination, uh, that
usually involves two or three weeks, perhaps even four weeks, a lot of which is spent in