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- <?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 xml:lang="" class="chapter" title="Chapter 5. Lesson 5" epub:type="chapter" id="d0e15462"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title">Chapter 5. Lesson 5</h1></div></div></div><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 рабо́таете?" epub:type="subchapter" id="d0e15482"><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 рабо́таете?</em></span></h2></div></div></div><p>Many of your acquaintances in your new country will be interested in getting to know you
- better. One of the things they'll be asking will be<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">
- <span class="bold"><strong>Где вы </strong></span><span class="bold"><strong>рабо́таете?</strong></span></em></span><span class="bold"><strong> </strong></span>"What do you do for
- a living? Where do you work?" Don't be surprised if you're asked questions, especially having
- to do with how much you are paid, which Americans would find inappropriate. During the Soviet
- period, wage scales were standard and common knowledge throughout the Soviet Union. A bus
- driver in Moscow was supposed to make as much as one in Irkutsk; a university professor in
- Kiev had the same salary as his counterpart in Gorky.</p><p>In those years, manual labor was more highly valued (and better paid) than those
- professions which demanded more brain and less brawn. With the break-up of the Soviet Union
- and the disappearance of the communist state, the nature and scope of many professions have
- been altered. And as the country moves toward a market economy, new professions are appearing
- (<span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">мэ́неджеры</em></span></strong></span>,
- <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">банки́ры</em></span></strong></span>,
- <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">бизнесме́ны</em></span></strong></span>
- and others) which enjoy varying degrees of popularity and respect. As a residual effect of the
- Soviet period, there are still many who think that any individual who is even mildly
- successful in business (and in economic and material terms) is obviously а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">спекуля́нт</em></span></strong></span> who could
- have acquired his/her wealth only through illegal means. We can expect to see this situation
- continuing for some time as the society gropes its way toward a new order.</p></section></section><footer/></body></html>
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