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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 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
  2. better. One of the things they'll be asking will be<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">
  3. <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
  4. a living? Where do you work?" Don't be surprised if you're asked questions, especially having
  5. to do with how much you are paid, which Americans would find inappropriate. During the Soviet
  6. period, wage scales were standard and common knowledge throughout the Soviet Union. A bus
  7. driver in Moscow was supposed to make as much as one in Irkutsk; a university professor in
  8. 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
  9. professions which demanded more brain and less brawn. With the break-up of the Soviet Union
  10. and the disappearance of the communist state, the nature and scope of many professions have
  11. been altered. And as the country moves toward a market economy, new professions are appearing
  12. (<span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">мэ́неджеры</em></span></strong></span>,
  13. <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">банки́ры</em></span></strong></span>,
  14. <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">бизнесме́ны</em></span></strong></span>
  15. and others) which enjoy varying degrees of popularity and respect. As a residual effect of the
  16. Soviet period, there are still many who think that any individual who is even mildly
  17. 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
  18. have acquired his/her wealth only through illegal means. We can expect to see this situation
  19. continuing for some time as the society gropes its way toward a new order.</p></section></section><footer/></body></html>