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Write a paragraph to say what kind of job you would like, and why.Careers in IT Before you start Work in pairs and discuss the questions. 1. What are your plans when you graduate from the University? 2. Do you want to use, or think you will need to use, IT in your job? 3. Make alist of jobs which use IT.
Reading Read the quotes and write the name of the students by the jobs they want. 1. Web designer_______ 2. Computer programmer_______ 3. Database administrator_______ 4. E-commerce manager_______
3.Write E, K,M or P. Which student:
Vocabulary 4. Underline the ways of expressing like or want in the quotes, then choose the correct answer. 1)___telecommuting to working in an office. aI'd rather bI prefer cI like 2)___to do a distance-learning course. aI'd prefer bI'd rather cI don't like 3)___working long hours all the time. aI'd prefer bI don't like cIt's good 4) ___to work with computers all day as I think it would be boring. aI'd rather not bI wouldn't like cI don't like 5)___be a rich techno-nerd than poor and popular. aI'd rather bI prefer c I like 6)___in being a secretary. I want a better job. aI'm not interested bI'm thinking of cI don't like
Speaking 5. Work in groups. Rank the things you want from a job: 1 = most important, 10 = least important. a high salary ■ flexible working hours ■ responsibility ■ interest or enjoyment ■ a nice office ■ telecommuting ■ long holidays ■ working with people ■ security ■ excitement/risk ■ good benefits, e.g. a company car, gym membership
Writing Write a paragraph to say what kind of job you would like, and why.
Get real Choose an area of IT that you are interested in. Find information about courses offered by colleges and universities. Find other areas where there are jobs in IT. Report back tothe group on what you need to start the course or to get a good job.
Task 1.Anne works in a large insurance company. She's a computing support assistant. She looks after people and their computers, and she helps with any problems people have. What sort of problems do you think they might have?
Task 2. Listen to Part 1 of the interview where Anne talks about the problems she helps with. Tick (✓) the problems she mentions.
Task 3. Listen to Part 2 of the interview. Tick (✓) the ways Anne keeps up with new developments in computing.
Language work: Adverbs of frequency Study these extracts from the interview. I: Are you ever bored? A: No, not really, because it's never the same things over and over again; it's different each lime.
A: People have problems with the hardware, often with printers ... paper jamming. They also have problems finding options in the programs. Mostly with word processing. I: Are there any other hardware problems? A: Occasionally a computer freezes, it hangs or freezes. It's usually a memory problem. I: Is it always the machine or is it sometimes the user? A: Sometimes it's the user. The printer isn't switched on, or there's no paper in it.
The words in italics tell us how often something happens. For example: I: How often does a computer crash? A: Sometimes, not very often. We can grade these words from always to never like this: always almost always usually often sometimes occasionally almost never never
Task 4. This table shows the number of hardware and software problems Anne had last year. Describe how often these problems happened, using the adverbs above. Example: There were sometimes problems with the network. Printers 116 Monitors 0 Cabling 13 Scanners 6 Network 34 Spreadsheet 15 Database 17 Word processing 93
Date: 2016-01-14; view: 815
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Interview: Computing Support Assistant