- •Job hunting
- •1 Make sure you know the following words.
- •2 Read the text.
- •CVs and Covering Letters in English
- •1 Check the words and phrases.
- •2 Read the information that will help you to write a covering letter.
- •Your cv/Resume
- •1 Check the words and phrases.
- •2 Read the text and learn how to write resumes in English.
- •3 Read Louisa’s cv and tick the topics in the text which are included.
- •4 Find words or phrases in Louisa’s cv that mean the following.
- •A formal telephone call
- •The job interview
- •1 Check the words and phrases.
- •2 Read the text and be ready to answer the following questions:
- •A job interview
- •4 Listen and repeat.
- •Contracts
- •3 Find in the text the synonyms of the following words:
- •1 Listen to the dialogue. The first day in the office.
- •What's 'In' and 'Out' on the Job Hunt
- •Improving Your Professional Skills
- •The Hard Truth about Soft Skills
- •1 To your mind, what the text is about according to the title? Scan the text to check your ideas.
- •2 Read the text and find the answers to the following questions:
- •6 Find the job that is the odd man out.
- •Markus initiates negotiations
- •1Make sure you know the words and phrases.
- •2 Read the dialogue.
- •3 Prove the following ideas (use the text if necessary):
- •A Business meeting
- •1 Listen to the dialogue.
- •2 Listen and repeat.
- •3 Watch the video and be ready to find the right answer:
- •Improving your problem-solving skills
- •1 Check the words.
- •2 Choose the right variant(s).
- •A Letter of Complaint
- •1 Make sure you know the words.
- •3 Read 5 top tips for writing effective letters of complaint.
- •4 Rewrite the letter of complaint to make it effective.
- •Have you got what it takes?
- •Unemployment
- •1 Check the words and phrases.
- •2 Read the extract.
- •3 Answer the questions.
- •Doing Something Different
- •1 Check the words and phrases.
- •2 Read about three people and answer the following questions for each person.
- •3 Listen to the three people describing how it happened and answer the questions.
- •4 Mark the following statements true or false. Then listen again and check.
- •5 Discuss the following questions in groups.
3 Answer the questions.
1 What do you know about unemployment abroad and in your country?
2 Are you sure that you will get a job after graduation?
3 Do you agree that underpayment is a kind of unemployment?
4 In your opinion, for whom it is more difficult to find a good job: for an ambitious young person or an experienced adult?
Doing Something Different
1 Check the words and phrases.
to resign
retraining
plumber
supervisor
legal secretary
well-paid
solicitor
accountant
2 Read about three people and answer the following questions for each person.
• What jobs did they use to do? • What are they doing now?
Clare
Last year Clare Davis, 26, resigned from her job as a geography teacher in a secondary school and started retraining as a plumber.
Kevin
When Kevin Dunstable, 31, lost his job as a supervisor in an electronic factory nine months ago, his wife Sally returned to her job as a legal secretary, leaving Kevin at home to look after their three young children: Jodie, 6, Daniel, 4, and Chloe, 18 months.
Lorna and Ian
Eighteen months ago, Lorna Whitwort, 29 and her husband Ian gave up their well-paid jobs in the city of London (Lorna was a solicitor and Ian was an accountant) and moved to the country to run a small hotel. Lorna was pregnant with their first child.
3 Listen to the three people describing how it happened and answer the questions.
Why did they live their old job?
What are the good things about new job?
What are the disadvantages?
4 Mark the following statements true or false. Then listen again and check.
1 Clare was joking when she first said she wanted to be a plumber.
2 She has problem with her male colleagues on the course.
3 She sometimes finds that older people have less confidence in her work.
4 Kevin became a house husband because he wanted to spend more time with his children.
5 He finds his life now harder work than his old job.
6 He’s made lots of new friends since he changed roles.
7 Lorna and Ian weren’t very successful in their old jobs.
8 They worked much longer hours in London.
9 She thinks it will be a good place to bring up children.
5 Discuss the following questions in groups.
1 Would you like to do what any of these people are doing? Why? Why not?
2 Do you think they have made the right decisions?
3 Are there any jobs that men/women are better suited, do you think?
4 What you would do?
Have you got what it takes?
1 Check these words in the dictionary.
to concentrate on smth.
to distract smb.
to be jealous
to run a training course
a steady job
variety
to be wise
workaholic
2 Do the test. Imagine that you’ve got a job. Then look at the assessment.
3 Complete the table with words from the test and assessment.
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Adjectives |
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success |
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jealousy |
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intelligent |
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importance |
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happy |
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ambitious |
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determined |
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imaginative |
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confidence |
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possible |
Check yourself. Make up your own sentences with the following words.
underpayment
unemployment
success
confidence
well-paid
workaholic
a steady job
to resign
to provide
to obtain
to ear
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