2. Read the profile again and answer these questions.

1. How does the writer contribute to university life? What skills has he developed?

2. What did the writer do at school?

3. What type of challenges did he experience?

4. Which hobby does he mention? What experience has he gained from it?

5. What qualities help the writer do a good job?

3. Complete the sentences with a verb from the box in the correct form.

take		manage		work		play
coordinate		meet		run

1. Matt didn’t want to _____ responsibility for the project. It was too much work.

2. Your education and experience _____ a large part in the skills you have to offer.

3. It’s not easy to _____ a newspaper. You often have to _____ very tight deadlines.

4. People are sometimes most creative when they _____ under pressure.

5. Holly had to _____ a lot of people for the fundraising event.

6. He’s no good at _____ budgets. He’s hopeless at maths!

IV. Write your own personal profile in 250-300 words. Use the plan below and the phrases in exercise 3 to help you.

Paragraph 1: Introduce yourself and what you do. Talk about your current responsibilities and skills.

Paragraph 2: Talk about your past experiences and achievements. Highlight the personal qualities you developed as a result of them.

Paragraph 3: Talk about your leisure activities. Think about how they contribute to the skills and experience you already have.

Paragraph 4: Point out the main contributions you have made to your school/ university/work. Summarize your main skills and qualities.

A Test your topic vocabulary.

Which parts of the Topic Map would you put the words in?

to succeed speciality		Personal Qualities		to appreciate faculty
idealistic		Skills		job title
student life		Why University		to graduate
a sense of humour to meet deadline		Ambitions and Hopes		desire for course content
to manage the budgets				to recommend the University
training course				group work

B Using a dictionary.

Add as many words as possible into the table.

recommend	energy	ideal	strong
content	mixture	introduce	first
present	response	manage	final

noun	verb	adjective	adverb
structure	to structure	structural	structurally
структура	структурировать	структурный	структурно

C Collocation matching.

Match the words on the left with the phrases on the right.

	to take part		about skills and responsibilities
	a few words		work with other people
	a person		in all concerts and sports days
	to learn to		with a sense of humour
	to meet		recommend
	strongly		deadlines

D Which word?

Choose the best word in each case.

1. First / Firstly, I’d like to tell you about my personal qualities.

2. There are problems in everybody / everybody’s life

3. Group work makes / does our work more interesting.

4. I can strongly recommend the university in terms of / in times of teaching .

5. The staff are always helpful / help.

6. Ambition is important because it is what will shake / shape your future.