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po proda´'am)?

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5 Preimu´]estva interne´ta v tom, hto v Interne´te (predlo'eńiq 40

o rabo´te aktuaĺ;nye, informaćiq intereśnaq, mno´go

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The labour market

Exercise 3

Examine the ratings of the most prestigious professions on the Russian labour market.

Pейтинг престижных профессий

(востребованность на рынке труда и величина заработной платы) 1. Менеджер по продажам, торговый представитель, менеджер по сбыту

2. Cтраховой аreнт

3. Mаркетолог

4. Бухгалтер

5. Mенеджер по рекламе, PR-менеджер

6. Логистик

7. Инженер-технолог, программист, системный администратор

8. рист

9. Kурьер в крупной фирме, официант, бармен

10. Журналист, психолог, социолог

1 What do the five most highly rated professions have in common?

2 Are there any inclusions which would not make the list in the West?

3 Which ‘professions’ that one might expect to find in a similar list in the West are not included?

Language points ♦

Words with the root trud

The root trud means ‘labour or (hard) work’

trudi´t;sq, trudovo´j, tru´'enik, tru´'enica, trudq´]ijsq, sotru´dnik, sotru´dnihestvo

The suffix, or ending, generally tells you which part of speech a word is:

trudi ´t;sq

verbal suffix

to labour, work hard

trudovo ´j

adjectival suffix

working

Rynok truda

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A suffix on a noun may also tell you what kind of noun it is. Suffixes 2

nik ( m) and nica ( f ) generally indicate an occupation or profession 3

of a person or a role fulfilled by an inanimate object:

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tru´'enik / tru´'enica

hard worker

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Note that d has changed to ' in these words.

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trudq´]ijsq (active

worker (Soviet officialese –

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participle of trudi´t;sq

more usual are rabo´hij

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used as noun)

‘manual worker’ / rabo´tnik

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‘worker, employee’)

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Prefixes add to or qualify the meaning of the word. S- / so- / s#- means 3

‘with, co-’:

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sotru´dnik

employee, co-worker, collaborator

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-stvo is a suffix indicating an action:

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sotru´dnihestvo

co-operation, collaboration

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But note the set phrase s trudo´m ‘with difficulty’.

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Trud may also be combined with other roots:

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ustroít; ‘to arrange’ – trudoustroít;sq ‘to fix yourself up 3

with work’; trudoustro´jstvo ‘finding work’

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sposo´bnyj ‘capable’ – trudosposo´bnyj / trudosposo´bnost; 6

‘fit / fitness for work’

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Exercise 4

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Complete the sentence by selecting an appropriate word with the root 2

trud.

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1 Niźkaq bezrabo´tica, po-pre´'nemu, tipi´hna dlq rossi´jskogo 5

ryńka . . . 2 No´vyj . . . kod byl vvede¨n v pro´wlom godu´. 3 Na´do 6

mno´go . . . hto´by sdat; \kza´men xorowo´. 4 Vse . . . tre´bu[t 7

uveliheńiq zarpla´ty. 5 U negoŕeputaćiq nastoq´]ego . . . 6 Sredi´

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. . . na´wej fiŕmy toĺ;ko tri 'eń]iny. 7 Fiŕma podpisaĺa 9

dogovoŕ o . . . 8 S bol;wi´m . . . ona nawlaŕabo´tu sekretaŕwi.

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9 V Moskveśejhaś mno´go ageństv po . . . 10 Oni´ pomoga´[t . . .