My Future Career. My Plans for the Future.
When I was a child I never seriously thought about my future career. I wanted to be a ....... / As a small
child I dreamt of being a .......
Then I started to attend Basic School and all my dreams changed. I was interested in many things, like
........., I was practising sports, I was quite good at ........
My plans for my future career changed from day to day. / I always knew I wanted to become a .........
Later I went to Secondary School. During my studies I began to think about my future career more
seriously / I began to think what I would really like to do when I was .......years old.
My plans:
First of all, I want to finish secondary school. At the moment I am taking the final graduation exam in
four different subjects, Czech language, Maths, ........... , ........... I hope I´ll pass./ I hope I won´t fail.
I have been working hard for this exam.
After my graduation I would like to study at ........ I have applied to ..........University, College, Faculty ...
I like / I enjoy.......... , so I´d like to become / to get into a profession such as ...............
I am good at / I am interested in ........... Therefore, I´d like to work as a ..............
I am afraid / I fear it is difficult to get into .......
What do I consider to be a good and interesting job ?
For me a good job should / be well paid /be useful / not be boring and monotonous / include possibilities
to travel / allow me to be my own boss / ...
I hope I will choose a profession that will satisfy me, challenge me and bring me joy. I believe that a job
should be like a hobby. I hope I won´t be dissatisfied and bored with my job.
I am sure I never want to work as a ......
I am still unsure what to do in my life because ......../ It´s not easy to decide what I´d like to do because...
I have decided with the help of my parents that I would like to .......
Salary is of secondary importance in choosing a job. Of more value to me is ..........
Family
I would like / I don´t want to get married because .....
My future partner should be ........ He also should have .......
I have a boy/girlfriend now but I am only ............., I don´t need to start thinking about marriage
To have a good marriage, the partner should ........
What are your plans ?
What job did you want to do when you were a child ? Did your parents share your opinion or did they
try to change your mind ?
How old were you when you began to think seriously abou your future carrer ?
How important is the salary in choosing a job ? What is more important to you- to dislike your job and
earn a lot of money or, on the contrary, enjoy your work and earn less money ?
Did the school prepare you well for the future studies / job ?
How are you going to celebrate your passing the graduation exam ?
What are your plans for this year holiday ? Have you got any part-time job for summer ?
Would you like to get married one day ? What qualities should your future partner have ?
Would you like to have children? If so, how many? If you could choose the sex of your children, whar
would you prefer ? Why ?
If you couldn´t have your own children, could you adopt any ?
Are you going to military service ? (enter the army)
Have you got any high aims ? ( to live to be 100 years old, to become Miss Universe, to marry a
millionaire, to be born again, to travel in time, to be awarded Nobel prize, to be famous, ...)
Do you make plans or are you a fatalist (believing in fate and predestination) ?
Do you believe in reincarnation ? Who or what would you like to be in your next life ?
Do you believe that if a man wants something very badly, if he does everything possible for it, he must
manage ?
The young generation and their problems
You often hear the phrase „When I was young things were different“.
What are the young people like today? Are they very different from what their parents used to be ? Do
you think the generations of your parents and grandparents were different ? Did they have different
problems when they were young ?
What are the major problems of the young people ? ( school, parents, friends, love, sex, unemployment,
drugs, boredom, money, housing problems, ...)
Make a list of your priorities ( values, the most important things) in your life. And compare it with your
middleaged teacher´s one.
Teacher:
-to be still alive (you live only once, there is not another chance)
-to be healthy
(being ill limits everything in your life)
-to have a family (can´t imagine life without children whatever they are)
- to love
(not only other people but yourself too)
-to be loved
(by at least one creature)
-to be independent (which only a good fortune can guarantee)
-to be useful
-to have a clean conscience
-to have some reliable friends (at least one)
and last but not least -to be ready to accept anything that life brings
What do you fear ? (You can compare with your teacher again.)
- a loss of someone close to me
- helplessness (not only in the physical sense of the word)
- serious disease (especially mental)
- poverty
- violence
- premature death
- stupid people (they not only get on my nerves but also can be extremely dangerous)
What / Who do you respect most of all ?
- decent, modest, educated, brave people
- top scientists (only they can heal or save the world and the mankind)
Can you describe the “generation gap“ (the gap between adults and teenagers) ?
In what way is the lifestyle of the teenage generation different from the lifestyle of the grown-up
generation ? ( fashion, music, films, eating habits, language, hobbies, hairstyle, bad habits ...)
Do you get on well with your parents ?
Is there anything you would change in your life ?