You have applied for a holiday job as a waiter at a local fast food restaurant. You are well qualified for the job and have some experience of this kind of work. Soon after the interview has begun, you change your mind about the job. You decide you are no longer interested. Do and say whatever is necessary to make sure you do NOT get the job.
Student B: Interviewer
You are interviewing applicants for a job in your fast food restaurant. You have interviewed several people already, but found no one suitable. Soon after the beginning of the interview with A, you decide he/she is the right person for the job. Do everything possible to make the interview a success.
WRITING: CURRICULUM VITAE
A. Read Adam Hall’s Curriculum Vitae (CV).
Date of birth:
Address:
Tel.:
Email:
25 February 1990
25 Victoria Road, Birmingham B19 2ZK
01218953 9914
adhall@interserve.net.uk
Profile
A highly-motivated, well-travelled, and creative graduate with practical work experience in both sales and TEFL[4] teaching. A 4-month postgraduate residency at the Biosphere 2 Center, Arizona, has given me wide-ranging knowledge of, and insight into, environmental problems and ways of presenting them to the public.
Education
1998-2002
2002-2006
July, 2004
King Edward's School, Birmingham
0 Levels[5]: Art, Biology, Chemistry, English, French, Geography,
History, Maths, Spanish
A levels:[6]
Art A
Environmental Studies A
Chemistry B
Spanish B
Leeds Metropolitan University
BA[7] Environmental Studies: 2:1
Academy School of English, Leeds Cert CELTA
Work experience
April 1999 – July 1999
January 2002 - May 2002
Weekend sales assistant, Kings Norton Garden
Centre, Birmingham
TEFL tutor, JA School of English, Katowice, Poland
Other information
September 2003
December 2003
May 15-16,2004
June 20-24, 2004
4-month residency at the Biosphere 2 Cent
Arizona, USA
Co-presented 'No smoke' at the Bretton Hall Sculpture Park, University of Leeds. An installation which explored the environmental implications of major forest fires, both natural and man-made.
Co-presented 'Time microscope' at the Covent Garden Flower Festival. An installation which explored different ways of presenting information about the natural world
Interests
My main interest outside work, although related to it, is travel. In 19— I took part in a school expedition to the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, and produced a video of the trip. In my gap year I travelled extensively in South America, again documenting the trip by means of sketchbooks and video. I also enjoy World Music, particularly that from countries I have visited, and play the guitar
References
Prof. T.N- Fagin
Department of Environmental Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University
LS23RX
Dr Elizabeth Gordon
Principal
JA School of English
Ulica Czysta 14
Katowice
Poland
B. Answer the questions.
1) Where did Adam study environmental problems?
2) What did he do while he was in Poland?
3) Who is Dr Elizabeth Gordon?
4) What do you think Adam's main interest is?
5) Where did Adam graduate from?
6) What commercial experience has he had?
C. Write a CV to attract employers and make them want to employ you as an Economist of Sales Department to a Coca-Cola company. Remember that the perfect CV should be:
Well-structured
Short, simple and clear
Easy to read and professional looking
Suitable to the job and the employer
Focused on the results not simply competency
Free of unnecessary details
Without spelling and punctuation errors
Grammatically perfect
Not your hobbies and interests unless they
demonstrate relevant job qualities
One or two pages maximum
WORD FILE
Unit 1 Module 3
advertisement
after-hours activities
attitude to smth
available (jobs)
colleague = co-worker
deadline
employment agency
in advance
majority of
qualifications
skills
smart (clothes)
to criticize
to get involved in (office gossip)
to keep doing smth
to look approachable
to make a good/strong impression on smb
to make eye contact
to make personal calls
to match smth e.g. qualifications
to take advantage of
to trust
to watch the things you say
to work out
accurate
ambitious
cautious
conventional
convincing
demanding
dynamic
efficient
experienced
honest
A. What do you know about Russia? Match the above pictures 1-6 with descriptions a) – f). What information can you give about the pictures?
a) The Cathedral of the Redeemer d) Peter the Great
b) The Red Square e) Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation
c) The flag of Russia f) First Russian cosmonaut
SAYING DATES
Years
Ordinal numbers
1984 nineteen eighty four
2010 two thousand and ten
1st first 2nd second 3rd third
4th fourth 5th fifth
Dates
3rd April 1998 (BrE) the third of April, nineteen ninety eight
3 April 1998 (BrE) April thethird, nineteen ninety eight
April 3, 1998 (AmE) April third, nineteen ninety eight
New year is
Victory day is
Women’s day is
Independence day is
Christmas is
Day of Knowledge is
Day of the defender of Motherland is
on 9th May
on 1st September
on 7th January
on 23rd February
on 31st December
on 12th June
on 8th March
Well-structured
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