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can communicate well. A graphic designer needs to be able to communicate their ideas to their colleagues and also to clients.
2 Interviewer What kind of people make good engineers? Amy
A good engineer is someone who can visualize things in 3D. It’s a really important skill if you want to work in engineering – some people have it and others don’t. When we’re recruiting young engineers, we also look for people who are good at problem-solving and have an analytical mind. Another skill that all engineers need is the ability to communicate clearly. They need to be able to write clear reports, and also communicate their ideas to other people who aren’t technical.
7.4 1 My initial impression was that the boy was at some kind of a fancy dress party, but now I’m not sure that’s right. If you look closely, the boy has an identity card around his neck which makes me think he works for the theme park. I remember going to Disney World a long time ago when I was a kid, and seeing people dressed up in similar kinds of costumes.
2 The boy in the costume looks as if he’s about 12 or 13. In most countries, that’s too young to have a job, so I think the theme park is employing him illegally. That would also explain why he’s been paid in cash. The serious look on his face as he counts the notes tells me that the money is very important to him. Perhaps he needs the money to help support his family, or maybe he needs it to pay for his schooling.
3 The boy’s costume looks very heavy and uncomfortable. It must also get very hot inside the costume when he’s wearing the headpiece. I imagine wearing such a heavy costume day after day must be very bad for his health, especially as he isn’t very tall and only looks about 12 or 13.
4 At first glance, the park seems very quiet, but if you look closely in the right corner of the photo, there seems to be a café, with some people sitting at tables outside. Judging by the shadows on the ground, it looks as if the photo was taken in the early evening. That also explains why there are so few visitors around.
7.5 a The boy in the costume looks as if he’s about 12 or 13. b The boy’s costume looks very heavy and uncomfortable. c At first glance, the park seems very quiet. d In the right corner of the photo, there seems to be a café.
Unit 8
8.1 OK, well in the first photo, one of the students was swapped because the school wants to attract more Chinese students. I didn’t have a Chinese student for the group photo so I removed a male European student and replaced him with another photo I had of a male Chinese student. We’ve had more enquiries from Chinese customers since the photo was put in the school brochure. In the second shot, I couldn’t get the shot because of the weather. It was really stormy and I was in another boat that was also in danger. We had to leave before the helicopter arrived. The newspaper I was working for wanted to make the shot look more dramatic so I used a photo I had of another helicopter that was similar to the one in the rescue. I don’t think anyone noticed.
8.2 The internship was great! I helped to organize a programme of 20 different special events for the festival, including lectures and celebrity appearances. I was entirely responsible for recruiting and interviewing the members of the events team. I hired 30 volunteers and trained them all before the festival started. I also had to arrange all their work schedules, which was quite complicated because we had daytime and evening events. During the festival, it was my job to supervise their work and make sure that all the events ran smoothly. Everything went really well, I’m glad to say!
Slideshow – A good photo The internet is awash with photos. Every day, more than two billion photos are uploaded to Facebook, Instagram and other photo-sharing sites. Two billion! Photography has certainly come a long way since the first photos were taken in the 1830s. Louis Daguerre took this photo in 1838. It took time for the camera to capture the image, so any moving objects disappeared. The only figures in the photo are those that did not move during the exposure. Can you find them? Over time, cameras and techniques gradually became more sophisticated. The first landscape photo in colour was taken in 1877. The first hand-held camera was produced in 1888. This was a huge step forward in that it allowed everyone – not just professionals – to take photos. Another huge step forward was the invention of the digital camera in 1975, and by the early 21st century, most mobiles phones had high-resolution cameras built in. Experts believe that more digital photos were taken in the last year than were taken in the entire history of the traditional film camera. Think about that for a moment … So out of zillions of photos, how many of them any good? How can we judge? What makes for a good ‘composition’ – the arrangement of objects relative to each other? Are there any rules to guide us?
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