1.2
Asking and answering question
An environmental accident
The Daily Reporter
Tanker
Grounded
200 tonnes of oil leak into sea
1 .Following this news announcement a journalist interviews a spokesperson from the company that owns the tanker. Listen to the interview.
1 What caused the accident?
2 How many accidents has the ship been involved in?
3 Does the spokesperson come out of it well?
2Complete the questions the journalist asks.
1 how this happened?
2this isn't the first time this particular ship has been in an accident
3And to do to limit the damage?
4 this kind of accident is acceptable?
5 It's a PR disaster for your company,
Indirect questions
3 Look at exercise 2. Study the structure of the indirect questions in sentences 1 and 4,and the tag questions in sentences 2 and 5.
4 Convert the following questions into indirect questions.
0 How many years' experience do you have in customer service?
Can you tell me how many years' experience you have in customer Service?
1 Where have you worked before?
I'd be interested to know
2 Are you an ambitious person?
Would you say
3 Have you gone as far as you can in your present job?
Do you think ?
4 Who are our main customers?
Do you know ?
5Convert the following questions into tag questions.
0 Are you interested in a full一time job?
You're interested in a full-time job ,are not you?
1 Are you married?
2 Can't you start tomorrow"?
3 have you only worked for smaller companies?
4 Did you manage to find our offices easily'?
5 Is this your first real job?
6 Would you be able to work part-time?
A job interview
6 How would you feel if you were asked these questions? How would you reply?
1 Can you tell me why you think you'll be good at this job?
2 Why should I employ you?
3 You don't have much experience in this field, do you?
4 You've taken quite a lot of time out from work .Why is that?
5 You are quite a quietly-spoken person. Do you have trouble asserting yourself?
G Now, your last job. Did you choose to leave?
7 And what do you know about our company?
8 So tell me what you did yesterday.
7 Work with a partner. Each choose one of the following jobs to be interviewed for. Prepare five questions each and then lake it in turns to adopt the role of interviewer and interviewee. Try to put your interviewee `on the spot: firefighter restaurant manager web designer
fundraiser for local sports club trainee investment advisor
1.3
Reading Test: Introduction and
Part One
The Reading Test has six parts, in which there are a total of 52 questions, and Lasts one hour. It carries 25% of the total marks. The texts are all business-related and vary between 150 and 500 words in length. Each part tests a particular
reading skill or understanding of language structure.
In the exam, you have an hour to read over 2,000
words, so try to develop your reading speed. The
only way to do this is to practise:
.Read English business texts, e g Time, Newsweek.
.Get your news from English Internet sites, e g
the BBC, CNN.
Part Text tune Skill focus Task
1 Single text or 5 Beading for global meaning; Matching summaries
short texts (450 summarising to each section of text
words
2 Single text (460- heading for detail; Inserting missing
500 words) understanding structure sentences into text
3 Single text(500- Reading for general
meaning 4-part multiple choice
600 words) and specific detail comprehension question
4 Single text (250 Understanding meaning
and Gap-fill; multiple
words) grammar of individual
words choice (4-choice)
5 Single text (250 finding missing words
to Open gap-fill one
words} give meaning and
cohesion Word per gap)
6 Single teat (150- understanding grammatical Identifying incorrect of
200 words) structure unnecessary words
Past One
Part One is a test of reading for gist or global meaning. five texts or sections have to be matched
to live sentences that summariese the general
view being expressed in each. Follow these steps
·Read the instructions twice and make sure you understand the context of the passages) and what you are being asked to do.
.Do not read the summaries first.
·Bearing in mind what general information you are looking for, read the first text }uml
then try to summarise, in your head, the general view it expresses.
·Now read the summaries and lind the one chat matches your own mental summary.
·repeat this procedure for each of the other four texts.
summarising
1 Write a one-sentence summary for this passage. Compare your answer with your partner.
I favour a direct approach to interviewing where the questions really put the candidate under pressure and test their reactions. If you look at manuals on interviewing technique, you'll find that most advise you first to make the candidate feel at ease, and then to ask open-ended questions