Speaking

(A) Exercise 1. Work with a partner. Take it in turns to make true sentences, using words from each box. Use the verb active or passive.

1. Exercise 2. Complete the following statements:

1. Some people choose their future professions under the influence of…

2. It’s not a pleasant thing to stay…

3. It’s not by chance that I…

4. Now I study at…

5. The department trains…

6. All organizations and individuals related to labor and production must observe…

7. The working places must be arranged to provide against…

8. Efficiency in safety is determined on …

9. The students of our department are specializing in …

10. Specialists are trained to work…

(B) Exercise 3. Here are some answers. What are the questions?

1. It’s not by chance that I entered the Belarusian State Agrarian and Technical University.

2. Now I am a first year student. I study at the engineering and technological department.

3. The department trains labor protection engineers, engineering technologists for the agro-industrial complex.

4. Labor safety is a very important problem in agricultural production.

5. The worker must periodically control and repair the machines, equipment, building structures and storage according to the norms of labor safety.

6. Such categories as injuries, equipment compatibility, work environment, personal protective equipment, fire protection determine efficiency in safety.

7. The students of our department are specializing in management structures on production safety support, means of collective and individual protection from harmful and dangerous factors of manufacturing environment.

8. Specialists are trained to work in labor protection services at enterprises and in organizations of the agro-industrial complex as labor protection specialists.

(B) Exercise 4. You meet your friend from the agromechanical department. Ask and answer questions about the following:

• your department

• your future profession

• the spheres of your professional activity

• the ways of being employed

(B) Exercise 5. Complete the logical diagram with the necessary information from the text.

Problems of agricultural production

labor sanitation

Efficiency in safety

equipment соmpartibility

Spheres of …

all kinds of machinery

means of … protection

(B) Exercise 6. Speak about your future profession: a labor protection specialist. Use the logical diagram.

(C) Exercise 7. Summarize the information about your future profession. Advertise your specialty to the university entrants. Express your opinion on the advantages of choosing this career.

(C) Exercise 8. Prepare a short presentation on your future profession. Compare your profession with other engineering professions. Present your idea of the role and place of your future career on the labor-market.