- •Устройство на работу
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Name:
- •4. What are these people?
- •5. Name as many professions as you can.
- •6. Name some professions you consider to be interesting. Which qualities make a good manager, etc.?
- •7. The Chamber of Commerce is an organisation for business people. Listen to six new members. Number the business cards in the order people speak.
- •8. Helen Marsden and Robin Seaton talk about their jobs. Before you listen, decide what their duties are. Then listen and check your answers.
- •9. Listen again and complete the notes below.
- •Grammar Review
- •10. Look at the business cards again. Who is each question for?
- •Meet Thomas Kingsley
- •Grammar Review
- •21. A) Read the text. Whose opinion do you share?
- •Is it possible to be successful in an unsuccessful company?
- •22. Read the text. Which way of looking for a job do you usually use? Why? So you are looking for a new position...
- •23. Work in pairs. How many different ways can a company recruit applicants to fill a job vacancy?
- •24. Read the magazine article about recruiting staff. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each recruitment method? The right person for the right job
- •25. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •Grammar Review
- •26. Look at the graphs a-h below. They show how a company has recruited its staff over a three-year period.
- •27. How would you recruit people for his/her own job?
- •28. Read the text and complete the table.
- •29. Read the advertisement below. Can you prove that this ad has been published in the uk? What would be its attractions – what might be its drawbacks?
- •30. Read the two advertisements below and answer the questions.
- •31. Look at the job advertisement below. Listen to a conversation in which Fiona Scott is telling a friend about the advertisement and complete the missing information.
- •32. How would you advertise the following vacancies?
- •33. Do the questionnaire as a discussion activity.
- •34. Read the text to check your answers in the exercise above.
- •35. Study the following resumes carefully to see how information is presented.
- •36. Define the type of the following resumes.
- •37. Use the information below to arrange Paul Goodman’s resume.
- •38. Where do you think each of the following headings should be placed?
- •39. Draft your resume.
- •41. Fill out the application form.
- •42. Sum up what the text says about differences between a resume and a cover letter. How Letters of Application Differ From Resumes
- •44. Read the text and the letters of application. Match the paragraphs of the letters with the information of the text. Format of a letter of application
- •45. Below you will find details from a letter of application. Look at the outline of the letter on the left and indicate where the information should go.
- •46. Read the letter and answer the questions.
- •47. Almudena Ribera is a secretary in Madrid. She is looking for work in Britain. Read the advertisement and answer the questions.
- •49. Match the phrases below with Almudena's notes.
- •50. You see the following advertisement in a national newspaper. Write a plan of your application letter in reply to it.
- •51. Imagine you want to apply for the job … Draft an application letter, following these guidelines:
- •Dressing for success
- •Interviewing someone for a job
- •55. For each direct question below, tick the correct indirect question.
- •56. You are interviewing someone for a job. How would you find out politely the following information?
- •57. A) Read the text below. What questions was Boris asked?
- •The Job Interview
- •59. Look at this resume. If you were interviewing Kevin Willis for the job, what questions would you ask him about his career history?
- •61. As a candidate, would you prefer to be interviewed by a woman, a man or a board?
- •Making a Selection
- •63. Discuss these points.
- •64. Read the following dialogues. Then name the stages of an interview.
- •Job Hunting
- •An Interview
- •An Interview for a job
- •65. Look at the following chart. Then read the questions below. In which section of the interview would each question appear?
- •66. A) Read the text below which advises candidates how to answer difficult interview questions.
- •Attending interviews
- •1. What don’t you like about your current position?
- •2. Where does your employer think you are today?
- •4. What are your weaknesses?
- •74. Translate the text below.
- •75. Here is an answer to a job application letter.
- •76. Read this page of Fibretech’s conditions of employment. Then complete the sentences choosing the correct option.
- •Exam section
- •1. What are the most important things for you in your work? Arrange these aspects in order of importance and add some more things you think are important:
- •2. Complete the diagram with vocabulary from the unit.
- •3. Match the following words with the correct meaning.
- •4. Match the verbs with the nouns.
- •6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
- •Complete the table below.
- •8. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words from the table above.
- •9. Complete the following passage.
- •10. Complete the sentences with the prepositions below. You can use the prepositions more than once.
- •14. Read the following interview with Margi Bogart, Product Marketing Manager at Mindsteps. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present progressive tense. MindstepsTm
- •15. Complete the sentences below. Use your own words.
- •Appendix 1 Trades and Jobs
- •Building Строительство
- •Professions Профессии
1
Adverbs
of frequency: word
order
Words
such as always,
___________,
___________, frequently,
___________, occasionally,
rarely and
___________ usually
come before the verb.
However,
these words come ___________
the verb to
be.
Words
such as hourly,
daily ___________,
___________ and ___________ come
after the verb, often at the end of the sentence.Grammar Review
9. Tell us what you do:
frequently occasionally annually weekly
20. Tell us about your occupation.
If you have a job ...
How did you decide what to be?
Was it always your ambition to do this?
Does your job suit (подходит) you? Why?
Are you well-suited to your job? Why?
What are your conditions of employment (hours, overtime, leave, clothing, health and safety)?
If you don’t have a job ...
What do you want to be? Why?
What will you have to do to get this job?
Why do you think you would be well-suited to this job?
21. A) Read the text. Whose opinion do you share?
Is it possible to be successful in an unsuccessful company?
Andrei Sapozhnikov, businessman
It’s 50-50. A lot depends on a company’s resources and on the resources of the management. A well-placed company can give a lot to its employees. But some things still depend on the person himself. If he works passionately, then he’ll get results. Though, I think every factor is relevant.
Tatyana Yelkina, student
I would work at an unsuccessful company if I liked working there. It doesn’t matter to me where I work. Everything is up to me, and everything depends on me. You can develop yourself anywhere. If you want to work at a given company you can improve both yourself and the company if you really work at it.
John Brown, engineer
A lot depends on the particular person. I think you should start at a small company. If you come into a successful and large company, you will be just one little part of it. If you come into a small one, on the other hand, you can contribute something to it. The business will recognize you, and things will depend on you. It’s really important to understand that you carry a lot of responsibility.
b) Answer the question: What is better for a graduate, to work for a large or for a small firm?
Unit 3. advertising a vacancy
22. Read the text. Which way of looking for a job do you usually use? Why? So you are looking for a new position...
There are several traditional ways of looking for a job, choosing one of which (or better all at once) it is possible to count on success.
The first is the typically “Soviet” approach in which you are allotted (отводить, предназначать) the function of passively waiting for a suitable variant. Communicate your intentions (намерения) to all your friends and acquaintances, using all the connections at your disposal (в … распоряжении).
A more civilized and active means (средство, способ) of looking for a job is studying the market of the offered vacancies to get an insight into the level of necessary demands and size up your own chances.
The best way of doing this is to use the help of employment agencies or to independently study the ads of job opportunities being published.