a broach a bracelet rings beads

earrings, clips ^a pin (golden, silver)

Colours

Щ!® ЬШё red grey (gray AmH)

black navy-blue pink lilac

brown dark-blue yellow orange

green

HOWTO BEHAVE DURING AN INTERVIEW

It’s evident that getting a job depends on many factors, among them

writing a strong job application and CV or resum6. Your behaviour during an interview, however, is often the best and often the most important stage in getting a job.

Interviews may be conducted by one or by several people.

The interview is an opportunity for the applicant to project his/her personality and convince the interviewers of his/her suitability for the job.

1. • Pay attention to the way you are dressed.

When you are properly dressed you demonstrate respect and consideration for those with whom you interact.

Your hairstyle, nails and choice of cosmetics will contribute to your ^appearance.

Your clothing should meet the requirements of business style. It’s very important that you should feel comfortable in your suit.

2. Be ready to speak about yourself. Your words should contain something to make people take notice of yuu. Describe briefly your experience at previous jobs and the good results you achieved there.

3. A standard question you may be asked — “Why are you looking for a job?” You should be ready to offer reasons which sound convincing.

⁴* You should organize your thoughts logically, have self-confidence, and never distort facts or try to persuade people to your way of thinking.

• ^s- You must be ready to answer some unexpected questions: ’*What are your strong points?” and “What are your weak points?”

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Your speech should be illustrated with clear examples. When speaking about your failures or mistakes be sure to emphasize the conclusion you have drawn after analyzing your failures and what they taught you.

Just remember that the capacity to overcome failures and analyze mistakes is valuable to any company.

4. You may be asked what you can do for the company or how you see your future duties. You should learn as much as possible about the company you are dealing with. If possible,;quote concrete figures or examples so that the interviewer will appreciate the extent of your contribution.

5. What salary are you expecting?

Think of concrete figures - you should base your answer on the average salary of other employees with your qualification.

6. Be ready for practical tests - if you apply for a job as a saJesmanager you may be asked to sell something or to express your opinjon about how to settle a conflict in a hypothetical situation.

7. At the end of the interview you may ask some questions. You should enquire about what your future job will entail, what possible difficulties there are in store for you, and what the other staff members arc like.

8. Some more advice: .,

1. Never be late. Even if you come too early, it is better to walk around outside than to bother the interviewer about what you should do for the next 20-15 minutes.

2. Remember that your speech should be more than mere words. How you speak sometimes is not as important as what you say.

3. Be yourself -—.just speak the way you speak with your friends.

Try to overcome your nervousness. You can learn to control your nervousness rather than let it get the better of you. Try to accept nervousness as a natural way of helping you to be alert and do your best. Remember it is normal and natural for you to be a little nervous. As you speak, smile and try to change your facial expression to convey the emotions that you feel. A smile coupled with good posture can work wonders.

4. Much attention should be paid to eye contact. You should not look at the floor or at the ceiling. Look into the eyes of the people yo° arc talking to.

Your speech is certain to be enthusiastic and lively.

Now think what kind of person you are.

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You may use the following words to describe yourself and other people:

to be reliable Co be adaptable to be energetic to be hardworking to be experienced to be modest to be practical to be punctual

to be well-organised to be flexible to be friendly to be honest to be responsible to be patient to be ladependent to be sociable

to be Intelligent to be loyal to be professional to be ambitious to be communicative to be sensitive to be romantic to be helpful

What do we mean

1. when we say that a person is:

• reliable, hardworking, sociable, helpful, ambitious, friendly, professional, experienced?

2. when we say that a person is:

• - unreliable, dependent, unfriendly, inexperienced, dishonest, indifferent, unsuccessful, irresponsible, helpless, inflexible7

Translate the following words and if you can say in what context you can use them:

to apply

application

applicant

to employ employment employer employee

to advertise

advertisement

advertiser

to appear appearance to disappear

to interview an interview interviewer interviewee

to suit (a suit)

suitability

suitable

Role Play

Several days ago an advertisement for a job appeared in the newspaper Moscow Times. Some of you decided to apply for this job, while the othere are going to be interviewers. The applicants will have to write application letters and CVs and later they will be called for an interview one at a time. Finally, the successful applicant will be called back into the interview room and offered the job.

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questions о e in erviewers and to ask your own questions about the job.. Do not forget to say Congratulations” to the person who finally gets the job.

. 3. CONFERENCE

Preparatory Work

1, A good report requires a lot of preparatory work. Some specialists distinguish the procedures enumerated below.

Read all of them and: *':'Щ

1. determine which four of them you find to be the most important;

2. arrange all of them in the proper order;

3. divide all of them into three groups'.

Planning stage.

Script stage.

Rehearsal stage.

1. Recording the presentation on audiotape.

2. Recording the presentation on videotape to control body language.

3. Planning the presentation (aim, time, place, length, form).

4. Writing the presentation out in full.

5. Producing a plan.

6. Writing down all your ideas.

7. Choosing the best demonstration materials (documents, pictures, photos, slides, diagrams, tables, graphs, charts, objects, models, etc.) and

handouts.

8. Producing demonstration materials and handouts.

9. Reading the script.

10. Producing cards with the notes of the presentation.

11. Using a marker to underline the most important ideas and facts.

12. Transferring the most important things into cards.

13. Timing the presentation to fit the available time.

14. Rehearsing the whole presentation from the cards.

15. Reducing the script if necessary.

16. Arranging the cards.

* The planning stage is really important. At this stage you should provide answers to the seven basic questions: why? to whom? what? where? *hen? how long? how? Say what is meant by these questions matching

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Opening	Signals of the start	To gain the attention of the audience or the people near you in the presidium.
	Greetings to the audience	To greet the audience.
	Self-identifica­ tion	To introduce yourself or to tbmk the person who introduced you.
	Creating a posi­tive emotional atmosphere	To attract attention, to give a smile, to tell a joke, to ask for something, to do something memorable.
Stating the target		To define clearly the purpooe of your report
Providing an overview		To outline the main points of the report.
Stating the rules		To inform the audience of the length of the report, what action, if any, is to be taken, the time and the form of questions.

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Signalling the start |, Read one of the sentences to signal the start:

Right. OK. Now then... Let’s begin/start/get started/ Good. OK. So. make a start.

Right. OK. Right then. Shall we begin? Can I have your attention, please?

2. Say wldch of them are a) tbe most formal; b) tbe most informal; c) neutral.

Greeting the audience

1. Read tbe following expressions:

Good moming/aftemoon/evening,

Hello,

ladies and gentlemen,

friends and colleagues, everyone/everybody.

On behalf of

I d like to welcome you to...

Welcome to...

I’d like to extend a welcome to...

2* Say which of them are a) tbe most formal; b) tbe most informal.

Self-identification Yotasaaly introduce yourself using tbe following models:

Let me introduce myself. As you already probably know Mynameis... I’m...of... I represent... ‘ I work for... as ...

^ ^or^r to create a positive emotional atmosphere yon can give a smile, teD a joke, or pnt

• question or you can say:

• ft is my privilege today to be talking tp professional experts in this field.

°* Introduce yourself to the audience:

*) Von are Ronald (Irene) D. Lewis, the Financial Director of tbe Citibank. Yon ^are ‘peaking at the annual meeting of shareholders.

2. You are Don (Dinah) Ware, the head of the Human Resources Department, taking it the weekly departmental meeting.

Summary	You repeat briefly the main points of the report or give a summary of the main proposal or conclusion.
Closing	You thank people for their attention and invite them to ask questions.

a) Some useful expressions for the conclusion:

Thank you for

your attention, being attentive, listening to me attentively.

You are welcome Feel free

to ask questions.

If you have any questions, If there are any questions,

I'll be glad/pleased/happy to answer them.

b) Finish your report or presentation by addressing the audience.

More and more people are concerned about environmental problems.

A lot of articles are appearing in newspapers. There are special movements for environmental protection; “Green Peace** is among them. A lot is being done at the government' level. But all the decisions taken should be based on scientific research. That is why conferences on ecological problems are very important not only for specialists but to the public as well. An International Conference, “The Environmental Problems Today**, will be held in Dreamland.

You can use your own name if you like. Prepare your business card (first name, last name, profession, address, telephone number, the institution you represent).

From the list choose one of the topics which you are especially interested in. (If necessary you can add your own.)

1. Air pollution.

2. Water pollution.

3. Noise pollution.

4. Pollution in cities.

5. Pollution by industries.

Read the invitation you have received and fill in the registration form.

Role Play

Participation

Topics

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Registration Form I would like to register f°r "The Environmental Problems Today” 25-27 May, 1999. Please complete and return to: , |: \||Hi Global Forum, 22 Bush Avenue, Star City, Dreamland.

Name (Mr/Ms) Position Finn/company The name of my report Address Citv Post Code Country Telephone Fax

Please register me for the conference. 1 have enclosed my check for S 200 made payable to: Global Forum. Please add me to your mailing list Q The conference language is English.

Topic Summary:

Key words:

Prepare the text of your report, visual aids, handouts and the necessary

equipment using either the materials given or those which you can find yourseli.

On your arrival at the conference find the programme and make your report. Listen to other speakers. Put at least three questions to some of them.

Chair

According to the official programme of the conference you are to open the proceedings by pointing out the importance of the event, its main goals, and the number of the participants. You are to introduce all the speakers, to conduct all the competitions and to close the conference.

This is the way you might open the competition:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! DEAR FRIENDS! ^v;. ;

WE HAVE GATHERED HERE TO ...

WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH THE FACT THAT ... PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS FROM ... COUNTRIES ARE TAKING PART IN OUR CONFERENCE.

LET ME INTRODUCE ... FROM ... . HE/SHE IS ... BY PROFESSION...