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Vocabulary looking for a job
Job-hunting Grammar Present Continuous and Present Simple;
activity and state verbs

D
QUICK REVIEW have to Think of
two people you know with jobs. Work
in pairs. Tell your partner what these
people have to do in their jobs. Which
person has the best job, do you think?

Vocabulary and Speaking

Looking for a job

a Work in pairs. Which of these
phrases do you know? Check new
words/phrases in 1!1t!ff!i:illfl1;\jf> p131 .

find a job
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write a CV
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go for an interview
lose your job
look for a job
apply for a job
fill in an application form
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be unemployed
get unemployment benefit I Harry I
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earn a lot of money
have some experience
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b Work on your own. Put the phrases LETTERS
in 1a in order. There is more than one Experience
possible order. TO THE EDITOR
doesn't count
1 lose your job
Getting nowhere Dear Sir,
c Work with your partner. Compare
answers. Are they the same? I read your report on
Dear Sir,
unemployment in yesterdays
My daughter, Bonnie, left paper and 1'm writing to
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school two months ago and now tell you how it feels to be
a Look at the photos and read the 1 she's looking for her first job.
unemployed. I'm 54 years old
letters. Why is Bonnie unemployed? The problem is that companies and I worked for an engineering
Why is Harry unemployed? always say they want people with
company for 1 7 years until it
b Read the letters again. Tick the true experience, but how can she get closed down four months ago.
sentences. Correct the false ones. experience if nobody gives her a 61'm applying for every job I can,
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two job? She goes online every day but 1 never get an interview
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a Bonnie left school tftt:ee months ago. and looks at the job adverts, but
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because people think I'm too
b She's looking for her second job. there's nothing for people like old - it's very frustrating. I've got
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c She looks at the job adverts online her. At the moment she's doing a lot of experience in engineering
twice a week.
some cleaning for our neighbours and I want to work. I just need
d She's cleaning her neighbours' house to earn a bit of money, but
at the moment. 4 she needs a real job. someone to give me a chance.
e Harry worked for the same company
Harry Thompson
for seventeen years. Mr] Melton
t He lost his job two months ago. Preston
Manchester
g He goes to a lot of interviews.
h He knows a lot about engineering .
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