Upward Bound: First year. Воробьева М.Г - 15 стр.

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II. director — manager — headmaster (principal)
A headmaster/headmistress — a man/woman in charge of a
school.
Syn.: the head, the head teacher, the principal
E.g. When I was at school, the headmaster always took charge
of morning assembly.
A manager is a person who runs part of a business.
A director is someone in charge of a business. We can speak of
the director of a language school because it’s a business.
E.g. Jack is very young to be a bank manager/a manager of a
supermarket.
It has never been my ambition to be a company director.
III. occupation — profession — job.
Occupation is the formal word for job and is used in limited
contexts like form-filling.
Job is the normal word to describe what someone does for a
living; it cannot always be replaced by occupation.
Profession is high-status work that requires special training
and education: law and medicine are professions; lawyers and
doctors are professional people.
E.g. I’m applying for a job in a bank
This form asks for details about your age, occupation /
job, etc.
After studying law I entered the legal profession.
IV. professor — teacher
A professor (BrE) has the highest position in a university
department, or (AmE), teaches at a university. We address a
man as Mr + surname or as Sir, and a woman as Miss/Mrs +
surname; we address a professor, male or female, as Professor
+ surname.
A teacher teaches in a school.
E.g. He was Professor of Physics and head of his university
department at the age of 26.
Mr Jones was a teacher of History before he became a
headmaster.