The gods gave the cup to me," answered the king, so I must drink from it alone." "Then you will live three hundred years, but all your friends will grow old and die.

How will you live without friends?"

"You are right, King Suleiman said, a man cannot live without friends." And he broke the magic cup.

A Merchant And His Parrot

A certain merchant had a parrot. Once the merchant decided to go to Bengal on business. Before he went away he asked the parrot:

"What shall I bring you from Bengal?"

"Don't bring me anything," answered the parrot, "but, do what I tell you. There is a tree in the middle of a big field in Bengal. Go to that tree. You will see many parrots in it. You must say to them: "Your friend lives in a cage. If you do not help him, he will soon die. The parrots in the tree will make an answer to this. Please, bring me their answer."

"All right,", said the merchant.

He came to Bengal, did his business and then went to the parrots' field. He came to the tree and said to the parrots: "Your friend lives in a cage. If you do not help him he will soon die."

Suddenly he saw that all the parrots fell to the ground like dead. The merchant was surprised. He looked at the dead birds for a short time and then started back home.

At home he told his story to his own parrot. Suddenly he saw that the parrot fell down to the floor of the cage like dead.

The merchant was greatly surprised. He said to himself: "Why did I tell him about the death of his friends? It killed him." Then he took the.parrot out of the cage and threw him out of the window. But the parrot was not dead and he flew away at once. Then the merchant understood that the parrots had played a trick on him and in that way had helped their friend to get free.

DISCUSSION

Comment on thefollowing proverbs and quotation concerningfriendship.

A false friend is worse than an open enemy. A friend is not so soon found as lost.

A friend - one soul, two bodies.

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. A friend without faults will never be found. An untried friend is like an uncracked nut.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. Friends and mules fail us at hard passes.

Friends are like fiddle strings, they mustn’t be screwed too tight. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Friendship is a sheltering tree. Friendship is love with understanding. Friendship is the perfection of love.

Friendship multiplies joys and divides grieves.

He is a good friend who speaks well of us behind our backs. When a friend asks there is no tomorrow.

Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch. (Aesop)

Old wood best to bum, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Francis Bacon)

When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, “Another I”. (Diogenes)

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud (Ralph Emerson)

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are too many; three are hardly possible. (Henry Adams)

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. (Benjamin Franklin)

WRITING

Choose one proverb or quotation you like most and write an essay based on it.

HUMOUR

Friends In Business

A rich businessman was dying. He asked all the members of his family to leave him

plan of yours which ended in failure? You explained the failure by changes in business conditions, but the real reason was quite different: I had sold your secret to McKay and Co. for 150 thousand dollars ... Forgive me, George ..."

"Don’t worry, Jim," said George. "It's all right. I’ve also got to tell you something: I put some poison into your soup at dinner yesterday."

What do you think: can such things asfriendship and common business go together?

retirement - выход на пенсию salary - заработная плата (оклад) wage - заработная плата

fee - гонорар (врача, юриста) income - доход

to earn - зарабатывать

to make money (informal) - зарабатывать

to make one's living - зарабатывать на жизнь

to downshift - сменить работу на менее высокооплачиваемую, но приносящую большее удовлетворение,

downshifting

2. Study the list o f personal qualities, abilities, skills and preferences necessary f choosing the right career. Your answers will help you to choose the rightjob.

Are you: interested in people good at meeting people energetic

ambitious friendly patient industrious disciplined responsible reliable scrupulous painstaking dextrous polite resolute

well-mannered brave broad-minded compassionate selfless balanced sociable tolerant tactful practical logical well-read erudite

good at organizing

good at working with hands strong-willed?

Have you got: a good memory

a sense of humour good imagination creative abilities?

Can you: drive

speak any foreign language play any musical instrument

work on a computer type and file quickly work independently?

Do you like: working on your own taking responsibility being with other people working with children working with animals working with numbers selling things

helping people clerical work traveling?

Do you mind: working long hours working at night getting up early noise

working part-time working every day traveling by plane ?

Would you rather: work indoors or outdoors

work in a big organization or a small one work in a state organization or a private one?

Do you: always do the best job you can start working on time

always finish the work you have begun learn quickly

work hard

know your strengths and weaknesses?

How important are

these things to you: a good salary

comfortable working conditions a chance of promotion

a possibility of being a leader a chance of traveling abroad?

PRACTICE

What qualities are desirable for being: a teacher, a politician, a doctor, a PR practitioner, a nurse, a manager, a sales person, a secretary, apoliceman, a spy, a scientist, a husband (wife)?

What abilities and skills are desirablefor: a pop star, a travel agent, a worker on an assembly line?

READING

Read the texts and say what is most essential to get thejob you want.

How do you choose a career? Many students finish high school and begin college without a clear idea of what they want to do in life. Part of the problem is the size and complexity of the job market itself. Seven hundred and sixty-three different occupations were listed in a recent publication of the United States Department of Labor, and this list is