MOTHER TERESA (YOUR ESSAY BASED ON ONE OF HER QUOTES)

BODY IDIOMS

to head a committee

to shoulder the burden/responsibility

hand down a tradition

face the music

at the top of your lungs

to tell off the top of one’s head

to give cold shoulder

to be pain in the neck

all fingers and thumbs

to toe the line

to back someone up

to tip-toe

from head to toe

tongue in cheek

cheek by jowl

to have memory like sieve

to pull the wool over someone's eyes

to have a nose for trouble

to have a head for economics

to have a good eye for colour

to nose into one’s business

to have butterflies in your stomach

7. HOW TO SUCCEED IN JOB INTERVIEW?

What type of Interview? : Phone interview / Traditional interview / Stress interview What's in an Interview Question? Plan Your Interview Attire. First Impressions. Confidence and Enthusiasm. Show Your Interest by Asking Questions. Thank-You and Follow-up Communications.

to put an ad in classifieds

negotiable conditions

reference - a person wishing to testify to character of applicant for employment;

to fill in application for

Interviewer vs. Interviewee,

advancement

to move up the ladder, career prospects

cv/resume/application form,

to place someone on probation/

internship

a vacancy for a job,

to apply for a job,

fill in/out an application form,

to have qualification, skills and experience,

salary/ wages

to write a CV/resume (curriculum vitae)

to be unemployed / to retire

a part-time (full-time) job

freelance job / to freelance for several agencies

to work in shifts (по сменам)

to work the night / day shift

health insurance

working hours / one paid day off

social benefits

to be promoted / to get promotion

working conditions (условия)

to be sacked (to be fired)

To be made redundant in the resulting cuts

creative job, challenging, well-paid, badly-paid, boring.

8. Feel Good News (at least 20-25 lines) + words in your vocabulary

http://www.goodnewsgazette.net/

http://greatnewsnetwork.org/

THE ULTIMATE GIFT (MOVIE REVIEW)

Talk about your favorite scenes and characters from the movie and your choice of three most important gifts. Read a few customer reviews of the movie at:

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Gift-Drew-Fuller/dp/B000QUU7KC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294072345&sr=8-1

And say which of them do you agree or disagree with.

MOTHER TERESA (YOUR ESSAY BASED ON ONE OF HER QUOTES)

1. What is a vocation? Do you know any people who have found and followed their vocation all through their lives? Find out what was Mother Teresa’s vocation?
2. Why did kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers bow their heads on the day Mother Teresa died?
3. Read Mother Teresa’s keynote Nobel Lecture. What ideas raised in this lecture seem particularly important to you? Choose one of Mother’s inspiring thoughts or quotes from the list after the text and write an essay. How can you apply it in your own life?

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 973