9. Now you will read extracts from two letters about the advertisement for an administrative clerk.

Fill in each blank with a word from the following box. Use each word once only.

as enclose form position

audio inquiries further take

available favourably in to

consider for opportunity with

Dear Sir ,

With reference 1)…. your advertisment in today’s ‘Morning News’, I am interested in 2).... applying for the 3)......... of administrative clerk with your company.

Could you please send me 4)….. details and an application 5)….. .

Yours faithfully

Dear Sir

I would like to apply 6)........ the position of administrative clerk with your company.

I 7) ........ my application form.

I am at presently working 8) ........ a secretary in the accounts office at TW Industries. My duties include 9)......... and copy typing and dealing 10)......... correspondence and telephone 11)........

Twice a week I have been going to evening classes in book-keeping and I intend to 12)......... an examination in three months.

I am applying for the position because I would like an 13)......... to make more use of my training.

I would be 14)......... for interview at any time.

I hope that you will 15) ........ my application 16)......... .

Yours faithfully

9. Match the words and expressions in the box with the headings below.

job seekers doctorate initiative interviewees

bonus candidates company car job offer

applicants advertisement diploma independence

confidence qualifications interview pension plan

shortlist enthusiasm degree health insurance

1. fringe benefit……………………………………………….

2. education…………………………………………………….

3. stages in recruiting…………………………………………..

4. personal qualities…………………………………………….

5. people looking for work………………………………………

24. Read the following proverbs and sayings.

Discuss them in pairs. Which of them, do you think, are closest to the Russian equivalents? Make up your own dialogue using these proverbs.

• No pain, no gain.

• Business before pleasure.

• If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.

• To take up everything is to accomplish nothing.

• Well begun is half done.

• To work with the left hand.

• To be busy as a bee.

• To know something like the palm on one hand.

• By fits and starts.

• You never know what you can do till you try.

• The labourer is worthy of his hire.

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

• Where there is a will, there is a way.

• Jack of all trades, master of none.

• Twelve trades – fourteen misfortunes.

• A man who knows seven trades is a man without a trade