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If you did well, you have to wait patiently for a reply. If you are lucky enough, you may be granted an interview and even offered the job. In that case, prepare well for your first day at work (you should be a bit early, dress appropriately, ask only intelligent questions, don’t take long breaks, and write down important information …).
Activity 2. The people below are all looking for a job for a short period of time. Read about them, and then read some advertisements from companies who would like to employ people for some time – then match the people with the jobs. (Be careful – there are more advertisements than are the candidates). Explain why each candidate is suitable for a certain position:
1. Peter has just finished school and is taking a year off before he starts a food technology course. He would like to gain some experience in this area.
2. Nancy is considering a career in nursing the elderly but wants to know what the job involves before she starts training. She doesn’t mind helping someone for free. She just wants to get some valuable experience.
3. Jacky has just dropped out of studying languages at the university in Germany but is still planning to do a teaching qualification next year. She really enjoyed living abroad and would like to do it again.
4. Stuart gave up his job as an engineer because of low payment and is now doing a fulltime computer course. He would like to earn some money but can only work before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m.
5. Alison has just returned from the States where she was working with teenagers in a summer camp. She’s going back shortly (probably in 6-7 months) but she needs money for the plane so she would like to work in the meantime.
Ø A Mick’s Supermarket
We are looking for additional staff in checkout sales and customer services. Daytime only (part-time hours possible). No experience essential. Staff benefits include free food in the restaurant, food discounts and travel allowance.
Ø B Oasis
Volunteers needed in our friendly old people’s home. Suitable for anyone wanting unpaid experience in care work. Light duties only, such as serving drinks and meals, helping our old residents getting out on the lawn and playing games with them. Temporary assistance is also welcome.
Ø C Cheerful Hours – after-school care
Play leaders are needed for the after-school club. We run a number of play schemes in the area. Ages range from 5-15. Candidates must have previous experience of working with children and plenty ideas for entertainment.
Ø D Clothes for Little Ones
Children’s clothes shop is looking for a part-time shop assistant. The hours are 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Benefits include discounts. Experience is desired. If you are interested, phone Sally on 894675.
Ø E Helping Hands
Part-time mini-bus drivers wanted for a small local service providing transport for the disabled and elderly people. Hours can be arranged by agreement and there’s reasonable payment. Evening work is also available. Sometimes help is required at weekends – for day trips.
Ø F Let’s Make Our City Cleaner
Part-time cleaners are required in busy offices around the city. Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. We pay €75 per week and provide uniforms and all equipment. We also have a mini-bus that will pick you up. But we expect good quality work.
Ø G Six-Month Au-Pair Position in Germany
Are you friendly, patient and cheerful? We need someone to look after three children (9, 6 and 3 years old) in return for food, accommodation and €45 pocket money a week. Evenings and weekends are free. The children already speak a little English but would like to learn more.
Ø H Telco’s Hypermarket
A fresh food assistant is wanted for the fish counter to prepare and display quality fish and to provide friendly and efficient service to our valued customers. Some basic training will be provided. Morning hours only, good pay, friendly and helpful staff.
Example: 1 H: Peter would be appropriate as he would gain valuable experience about
fresh food before he goes studying.
PAST FORMS
Activity 1. Think of an interesting holiday you went on or an exciting trip you made. Tell others about it:
Where did you go? I went to Egypt.
Who was with you?
How did you travel?
What did you take with you?
Did everything go according to plan?
How did you feel when you got back?
Activity 2 (a). Complete these stories with the correct form of the verb (Past forms only):
1.
Music legend Michael Jackson died (die) at the age of 50 on the 26th June 2009. He ……… (suffer) a cardiac arrest at his home in Beverly Hills. Jackson, who ……… (have) a history of health problems, had been due to stage a series of comeback concerts. His body was airlifted from the hospital to the coroner’s office in downtown Los Angeles. TV stations ……… (carry) live coverage of the helicopter’s journey. An autopsy was carried out later that day to establish the precise cause of his death. Paramedics had been called to the Beverly Hills mansion Michael Jackson ……… (rent) while he ……… (prepare) for a series of fifty sold-out concerts in London. The singer’s brother, German Jackson ……… (tell) at the news conference that after they ……… (fail) to resuscitate him, Michael was transferred to a nearby hospital where a team of doctors ……… (work) for more than an hour in a vain attempt to revive him. Only a few hours earlier Michael ……… (rehears) at a local sports stadium and he ……… (look) much better and less frail than in the past years. His voice ……… (be) back and he again ……… (enjoy) performing dancing steps with his group.
2.
On Wednesday, July 24th, 2006, a team of gold miners were (be) hard at work in Forrester mine in Arrow Town, New Zealand. They ……… (have) a map so they knew that there was another mine shaft nearby. But they ……… (not know) that their map was wrong and the old mine was much closer than they ……… (think). At 8.50 p.m., a terrible thing happened. Some miners ……… (break) through the connecting wall and over 350 million litres of water poured in the old mine. They managed to escape the rushing water, but they were cut off from the surface, trapped 75 metres below ground. The miners ……… (try) to find higher ground, but it was impossible. They found a small air pocket, but the water continued to rise. The water was very, very cold and there was only a limited amount of air, so breathing became extremely difficult. Above the miners the rescue team ……… (not know) if they were alive or dead, but they ……… (try) to reach them all the time. They drilled small holes to where the miners were and at 3.45 a.m. they lowered a pipe down to the miners. Fresh, heated air ……… (come) down through the pipe. So, the miners had warm air, but the water was another problem. It ……… (rise) all the time. Fitzpatrick, the miners’ leader, estimated that they would be all dead in an hour. They ……… (write) notes saying goodbye to their wives and children and put them in an airtight plastic bucket. The water ……… (still rise) and it ……… (rise) to their necks, but then it stopped. The men were still alive. The rescuers on the surface ……… (still work) and they worked all the next day and into the night. They ……… (have) to drill a tunnel to get them out. They drilled 34,5 metres into the ground but at 2.35 a. m. on Friday the drill ……… (break). They had to remove it but they couldn’t continue. The rescue team started the second tunnel, 15 metres from the first. And after a 16-hour shutdown, the first tunnel was back in business. But this was 46 hours from the accident. Was it too late? The breakthrough came on Saturday at 10.25. The first rescue drill finally ……… (cut) through to the trapped miners. All miners escaped to safety after they ……… (be) trapped for 78 hours.
Activity 2 (b). NOW decide if the sentences below are true or false, correct the false ones:
1. The map the miners had didn’t show the correct location of the old mine. True
2. The accident happened at ten to nine in the morning.
3. The miners couldn’t find higher ground.
4. The miners’ leader thought the rising water would kill them all in an hour.
5. Two rescue tunnels were started at the same time.
6. The drill broke again on Saturday at 10.15 p.m.
Activity 3. Fill in the correct past forms of the verbs in this interesting story below:
My perfect holiday used to be two weeks in a hotel with no cooking, no cleaning and staff waiting on me. After we had had (have) children, we ……… (find) it easier to choose places where kitchen facilities were included and we ……… (do) the cooking. It was a generally more convenient option although we ……… (tend) to stay in Britain because of the cost. Then friends of mine ……… (introduce) us to the idea of house-exchange holidays. At first, we ……… (think) that staying in someone else’s house was unthinkable. I also ……… (not like) the idea of complete strangers wandering about in my home, using my bathroom and sleeping in my bed. However, my friend ……… (tell) me how she, her husband and two children ……… (spend) two lovely weeks in the heart of Florida just for the price of the flight. They also ……… (not have) any problems with the family who stayed in their house in London. Because they ……… (be) so positive, we decided to try it ourselves. We joined a house-exchange agency, ……… (choose) the countries we were interested in visiting and were soon sent information on possible exchanges. We chose a family from Vancouver in Canada, ……… (go) away and had the best holiday we’d ever had in our lives. That was six years ago. Since then we’ve been to Hungary, Finland, Scotland, the USA, Slovakia and even Australia.
Activity 4 (a). Fill in the correct form of the verb and then do the multiple choice exercise below:
One day, when I was sitting (sit) in a huge traffic jam on the way to school, I ……… (start) thinking about how miserable everybody ……… (look) stuck in their cars. Why ……… (they do) it, I ……… (wonder). Why didn’t they walk instead? What were all these cars doing to the environment? I ……… (imagine) the world in fifty years’ time. What would it be like? If people ……… (carry) on driving, pollution would get worse and worse. When I ……… (get) to school that day, I ……… (ask) a few of my friends to start a club with me. We ……… (call) ourselves ‘The Environment People’. We ……… (know) we couldn’t change the world or make the government improve public transport, but we decided we could at least change our own lifestyle. We also decided to think about all sort of ways we could help protect our environment.
First of all, we ……… (make) a list of things we could do, such as walking to school, saving paper, recycling bottles and cans. Then we made posters and ……… (stick) them up all over the school. Soon lots of other students were really interested in what we ……… (do) and groups started meeting up to walk to school instead of going by car. I think other young people should do more to protect the environment; after all, it’s our future.
Activity 4 (b).
Ø What is the writer trying to do in the story?
A. Encourage other to think about the environment.
B. Give information about the environment.
C. Advise people to use public transport.
D. Warn young people about their lack of fitness.
Ø What is the writer afraid will happen in the future?
A. People will no longer walk anywhere.
B. Car drivers will become completely depressed.
C. There will be more pollution.
D. Traffic jams will get even longer and will take too much time.
Ø Which of the following did the members of the club realise they couldn’t do?
A. Start a club.
B. Help protect the environment.
C. Improve bus and train services.
D. Change the way we live.
Ø What did ‘The environment People’ decide to do?
A. Write a letter to the government.
B. Write down what actions they could take.
C. Persuade people to use public transport.
D. Join up with other similar clubs.
GIVING INSTRUCTIONS
In our everyday but also professional life we have to give and follow certain instructions. Have a look at this example about how to change an oil filter:
Ø Check the handbrake is on and jack up the front of the car. Put a shallow pan on the ground under the engine.
Ø Make sure that’s directly underneath the engine’s drain plug.
Ø Unscrew the drain plug and wait for the oil to drain completely. It will flow out easily.
Ø Replace the plug and tighten it with a wrench.
Ø Then locate the oil filter.
Ø Remove the filter by rotating it slowly counter clockwise. Pour any remaining oil into the pan.
Ø Screw in the new filter, rotating it clockwise. Do not screw it too tightly.
Ø Remove the drain pain and carefully pour the oil into a special container that can be sealed off.
Ø Lower the car to the ground again. Do it slowly. Then pour new oil in. Check for any leaks under the car.
Ø Repeat this process every 5,000 kilometres to keep your car in a good condition.
Activity 1.Write down another instruction: for example how to operate your mobile, TV, DVD, a washing machine …
Activity 2. Can you guess which devices these instructions are for?
Ø Put on this suit before going for a ride. In a crash it swells with compressed gas and protects your body. Protective jacket and trousers.
Ø Lose weight by using this. It has sensors that time your mouthfuls. When the red light comes on, wait. When the green light comes on again, you can eat another mouthful.
Ø Keep cool on hot days by wearing this. It protects your head and because of the size also your upper body.
