- •Introduction
- •1. How do you choose a career?
- •1.1. “Working” vocabulary
- •1.2. Choosing a career
- •Choosing a career
- •1.3. Career and personality
- •What is Your Career Personality?
- •Does My Personality Match this Career?
- •1.4. The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •1. Begin with your values.
- •2. Identify your skills and talents.
- •3. Identify your preferences.
- •4. Experiment.
- •5. Become broadly literate.
- •6. In your first job, opt for experience first, money second.
- •7. Aim for a job in which you can become 110% committed.
- •8. Build your lifestyle around your income, not your expectations.
- •9. Invest five percent of your time, energy, and money into furthering your career.
- •10. Be willing to change and adapt.
- •1.5. Revision
- •2. Looking for a job
- •2.1. Work
- •2.3. Job search methods
- •Job search methods
- •2.4. Experience first, money second
- •My life as an intern
- •2.5. Revision
- •3. Applying for a job
- •3.1. Looking for and applying for a job
- •3.2. Want ads
- •3.3. How does a selection process go?
- •The Selection Process
- •Interview...
- •3.4. Getting ready for a job interview
- •Curriculum vitae
- •Interests
- •Personal statement
- •Covering letter
- •Mega Video Store requires trainee manager
- •16, London road,
- •23, High Road,
- •Planning
- •Writing
- •Checking
- •3.5. A job interview
- •3.6. Getting and keeping a job
- •3.7. Revision
- •4. At work
- •4.1. Career and promotion
- •One man's career
- •Being busy
- •Other idioms connected with work
- •During your working life
- •4.2. Colleagues and routines
- •Colleagues
- •Daily work routines
- •During the day (different work-patterns)
- •Types of work
- •4.3. Revision
- •5. The everchanging workplace
- •5.1. Revolution in the workplace
- •Recent changes in the world of work
- •Help wanted
- •5.2. The changing workplace
- •What makes a good workplace?
- •The Changing Workplace
- •5.3. Revision
- •6. Gender issues in the workplace
- •6.1. Men vs women
- •6.2. Gender stereotypes at work
- •6.3. Inequality at work
- •Inequality at work
- •6 .4. Gender discrimination in the workplace and at home
- •6.5. Balancing home and work
- •Balancing home and work
- •Value of housework
- •A Cinderella story
- •6.6. Revision
- •7. Check yourself
- •2. Write some collocations or brainstorm some related topics 1. Write a definition
- •Vocabulary Word
- •3. Use the word in a sentence or question 4. Recall a sentence with the word from the text.
- •Useful phrases
- •Writing a Summary Conflicting interests
- •Understanding the task
- •Deciding what is important
- •Answering questions to write a summary
- •Summarising a paragraph
- •Cutting out unnecessary information
- •6. Understanding the task
- •7. Planning
- •8. Writing
- •9. Checking
- •Presentation Signpost Expressions
- •Introducing the topic
- •Presentations. Structure and Useful Phrases
- •Introduction
- •Interpreting information
- •Discourse markers in speech and in writing
Presentations. Structure and Useful Phrases
If you make a presentation in a group, here are some useful tips and phrases to keep in mind.
Structure
Team Leader
Welcome audience.
Introduce yourself and your partner(s).
Briefly summarize topic and raise interest.
Briefly indicate who will tell the audience what.
Hand over to next speaker.
Summarize and thank the audience at the end of the presentation.
Welcome questions and field them.
Language for the team leader
Introduction
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
My name is ... .
I'd like to introduce my colleague: Maria Outlook, head of the market research department.
Today we will be showing you ...
Maria will ... and I will ...
I'd like to begin by ...ing
Next we shall...
After that we want to ...
We'll be developing three main points...
First ... Second ... etc.
Our presentation will be in two parts. In the first part Maria Outlook will ... And then I will ...
Passing on to the first speaker
And now I'd like to hand over to Maria.
And now I'd like to ask Maria to ...
Passing on to the next speaker
Thank you Maria.
Now / Next Maria will ...
And now I'd like to ask Maria to ...
Summarizing
Today we have shown you ...
I'd like to conclude by -ing ...
I'd like to finish by –ing ...
In conclusion ...
Finally ...
To sum up then ...
So, as we've seen in this presentation today, ...
As we've explained, ...
Thank you very much for your attention.
Questions
Thank you. If there are any questions we shall do our best to answer them.
If you have any questions, we'd be pleased to answer them.
I'd (we'd) be happy to answer any questions.
I (we) would welcome any comments / suggestions.
That's a very interesting question.
I'd like to pass that question on to Maria.
I think Maria would be in the best position to answer that question.
Have I answered your question?
I'm sorry, we can't answer that question just now, because ...
Finishing
We are confident that ...
On behalf of the team, I'd like to thank you very much for your interest in our presentation.
Language for the team members
Taking your turn and expressing purpose
Thank you ...
Thank you ... . As ... said, I would like to talk about ... .
I'll be talking to you about ...
My purpose today is to ...
What I want to do today is to ...
Explaining
We have considered ...
We have looked at ...
There are two alternatives ...
The first option is to ...
There are two reasons/explanations for this. First ... Second ...
This is/can be explained by two factors. First,... Second, ...
This is due to ... and also to ...
One reason for this is ...
Another reason is ...
One way to solve this problem is ...
Another is to ...