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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:pls="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon" xmlns:ssml="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><head><title>Chapter 5. Lesson 5</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-epub.css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/><link rel="prev" href="ch04s07.xhtml" title="Numbers"/><link rel="next" href="ch05s02.xhtml" title="Setting the scene"/></head><body><header/><section class="chapter" title="Chapter 5. Lesson 5" epub:type="chapter" id="d0e15008"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title">Chapter 5. Lesson 5</h1></div></div></div><p/><div class="informaltable"><table style="width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid ; border-bottom: 1px solid ; border-left: 1px solid ; border-right: 1px solid ; "><colgroup><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">Lesson №5</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">WHERE DO YOU WORK?</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">УРОК № 5</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/0161.png" width="213"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><section class="section" title="Где вы работаете?" epub:type="subchapter" id="d0e15029"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Где вы
  2. работаете?</em></span></h2></div></div></div><p>Many of your acquaintances in your new country will be interested in
  3. getting to know you better. One of the things they'll be asking will
  4. be<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> <span class="bold"><strong>Где вы
  5. </strong></span><span class="bold"><strong>работаете?</strong></span></em></span><span class="bold"><strong>
  6. </strong></span>"What do you do for a living? Where do you work?" Don't be
  7. surprised if you're asked questions, especially having to do with how much
  8. you are paid, which Americans would find inappropriate. During the Soviet
  9. period, wage scales were standard and common knowledge throughout the
  10. Soviet Union. A bus driver in Moscow was supposed to make as much as one
  11. in Irkutsk; a university professor in Kiev had the same salary as his
  12. counterpart in Gorky.</p><p>In those years, manual labor was more highly valued (and better
  13. paid) than those professions which demanded more brain and less brawn.
  14. With the break-up of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the
  15. communist state, the nature and scope of many professions have been
  16. altered. And as the country moves toward a market economy, new professions
  17. are appearing (<span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">мэнеджеры</em></span></strong></span>, <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">банкиры</em></span></strong></span>, <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">бизнесмены</em></span></strong></span> and others) which
  18. enjoy varying degrees of popularity and respect. As a residual effect of
  19. the Soviet period, there are still many who think that any individual who
  20. is even mildly successful in business (and in economic and material terms)
  21. is obviously а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">спекулянт</em></span></strong></span> who could have acquired
  22. his/her wealth only through illegal means. We can expect to see this
  23. situation continuing for some time as the society gropes its way toward a
  24. new order.</p></section></section><footer/></body></html>