- •Introduction
- •1. How do you choose a career?
- •1.1. “Working” vocabulary
- •1.2. Choosing a career
- •Choosing a career
- •1.3. Career and personality
- •What is Your Career Personality?
- •Does My Personality Match this Career?
- •The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •1. Begin with your values.
- •2. Identify your skills and talents.
- •3. Identify your preferences.
- •1.4. The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •4. Experiment.
- •5. Become broadly literate.
- •6. In your first job, opt for experience first, money second.
- •7. Aim for a job in which you can become 110% committed.
- •8. Build your lifestyle around your income, not your expectations.
- •9. Invest five percent of your time, energy, and money into furthering your career.
- •10. Be willing to change and adapt.
- •1.5. Revision
- •2. Looking for a job
- •2.1. Work
- •2.3. Job search methods
- •Job search methods
- •2.4. Experience first, money second
- •My life as an intern
- •2.5. Revision
- •3. Applying for a job
- •3.1. Looking for and applying for a job
- •3.2. Want ads
- •3.3. How does a selection process go?
- •The Selection Process
- •Interview...
- •3.4. Getting ready for a job interview
- •Curriculum vitae
- •Interests
- •Personal statement
- •Covering letter
- •Mega Video Store requires trainee manager
- •16, London road,
- •23, High Road,
- •Planning
- •Writing
- •Checking
- •3.5. A job interview
- •3.6. Getting and keeping a job
- •3.7. Revision
- •4. At work
- •4.1. Career and promotion
- •One man's career
- •Being busy
- •Other idioms connected with work
- •During your working life
- •4.2. Colleagues and routines
- •Colleagues
- •Daily work routines
- •During the day (different work-patterns)
- •Types of work
- •4.3. Revision
- •5. The everchanging workplace
- •5.1. Revolution in the workplace
- •Recent changes in the world of work
- •Help wanted
- •5.2. The changing workplace
- •What makes a good workplace?
- •The Changing Workplace
- •5.3. Revision
- •6. Gender issues in the workplace
- •6.1. Men vs women
- •6.2. Gender stereotypes at work
- •6.3. Inequality at work
- •Inequality at work
- •6 .4. Gender discrimination in the workplace and at home
- •6.5. Balancing home and work
- •Balancing home and work
- •Value of housework
- •A Cinderella story
- •6.6. Revision
- •7. Check yourself
- •2. Write some collocations or brainstorm some related topics 1. Write a definition
- •Vocabulary Word
- •3. Use the word in a sentence or question 4. Recall a sentence with the word from the text.
- •Useful phrases
- •Writing a Summary Conflicting interests
- •Understanding the task
- •Deciding what is important
- •Answering questions to write a summary
- •Summarising a paragraph
- •Cutting out unnecessary information
- •6. Understanding the task
- •7. Planning
- •8. Writing
- •9. Checking
- •Presentation Signpost Expressions
- •Introducing the topic
- •Presentations. Structure and Useful Phrases
- •Introduction
- •Discourse markers in speech and in writing
- •Interpreting information
Interpreting information
Our research shows ...
The figures indicate that ...
A key problem is ...
The evidence is ...
Expressing opinions
We believe ... (that) It seems to us ... (that)
We think ... (that) We feel ... (that)
It is our view ... (that) We tend to feel ... (that)
Our opinion is ... (that)
Handing back to the team leader or the next speaker
I'd like to hand back to ...
Now Peter Toolbox will explain ...
Appendix 7.
Discourse markers in speech and in writing
Discourse markers are words and phrases which organize, comment on or in some way frame what we are saying or writing.
Discourse markers in speech
Markers, used to organize the process of doing sth.:
Right:
Ok : Right/OK, let’s have a look at exercise 3.
Modify or comment on what is being said:
Well: So do you live in Boston? Well, Near Boston.
Mind you: Mind you, it’s November, it’s not surprising that it’s cold.
Let me see: Let me see, I have it somewhere here…
Listen/Look: Look, why don’t you let me sort out?
Hang on/Hold on!: Hold on! Let me tell you what he said!
You see: I can’t do this, you see, I’m not the boss here. (explaining)
You know, sort of: He was, you know, sort of….just standing there. (hesitation)
Anyway: Anyway, I’ll ring you tomorrow. (the speaker thinks the topic or conversation is over)
Still: Still, we can’t complain it was fine all last week. (contrasts two ideas)
At the end of the day: At the end of the day, he is the only child. (the most important point or argument)
Discourse markers in writing
Organizing a formal text
First / Firstly/ First of all, we must consider… Secondly / Thirdly, etc.
Next, it is important to remember that…
Finally / Lastly, we should recall that…
Turning to the question of…
In summary / To sum up, we may state…
In conclusion / To conclude, I should like to…
Markers for explaining, exemplifying, rephrasing
In other words / That is to say (much more formal), you have to study the same words over and over again.
For example / For instance, you can ask your parents for help.
We could, say, include the parents in the discussion.
The Parliament has different committees. Briefly, this consists of…
She is, so to speak, living in a world of her own.
1 [manja:na] tomorrow
2 in a low position in a work organisation or hierarchy
3 job without a good future
4 boring, routine
5 escape from a monotonous, boring situation (see picture of horse)
6 made a great effort to do something well (see picture of organ: stops increase
the sound of an organ)
7 was dismissed from his job (also be given the sack)
8 took over his job
9 very busy
10 had something very difficult to do
11 becoming more and more successful
12 invited to join a new workplace which had noticed his talents
13 got to a top position in a work organisation or hierarchy
14 equal rights for men and women
15 prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s gender
16 having too much to do and too many responsibilities as a result of combining two or more roles