Salesman: Well, today I’m here to show you some of the products. Have you got ten minutes?
Customer: Well, actually, I’m rather busy – I was in the middle of ...
Salesman: Five minutes, then. You won’t find any of these kitchen and bathroom products at such low prices anywhere else.
Customer: No, I’m sorry, I said I was busy. I don’t really need anything like this at the moment ...
Read through the questions. Then listen to the extracts again. For questions 5–12, choose the correct answer a, b or c. [Play Track 033 again]
≤034 Unit 3 Consolidation – Speaking
C Listen to a student doing the exam. Which words does he check? Highlight them on the card. Student: Can I check a few words on the card before I start to make my notes?
Examiner: Yes, please do. Student: This word ‘ideal’ – does it mean something like ‘perfect’?
Examiner: Yes, it means more or less the same thing. Student: OK, and what about ‘personal qualities’? I’m not sure I understand exactly what that means.
Examiner: Your personal qualities are the things about you that make you good for the job – the right person for the job.
Student: You mean, like if I’m hard-working or lazy? Examiner: Yes, those are good examples. Student: Thank you. Finally, I want to check ‘appealing’. Does it mean ‘what makes me want to do the job’? Is it a bit like ‘attractive’?
Examiner: Yes, that’s right. Now, are you ready? You have a minute to plan what you want to say and make notes.
≤035 Unit 3 Consolidation – Speaking
D Look at the tapescript and listen again. Notice how the student asked questions and how the examiner answered. [Play Track 034 again]
≤036 Unit 3 Consolidation – Vocabulary
B Listen and write these words from the unit in your notebook. Check your spelling. Then mark the main stress on each word. 1 experience 3 career
5 promotion 7 financial
9 advertisement
2 successful 4 challenging 6 professional 8 qualified
10 applicant
≤037 Unit 3 Exam Practice – Listening
B Look through the questions carefully. Then listen and answer the questions. Female voice: So, Simon, I hear you’re working from home, too, these days. Male voice 1: Yeah, that’s right. Well, I go into the office once a week, but I’m at home most of the time. Female voice: Are you enjoying it? Male voice 1: Well, there’s good and bad, you know how it is. I didn’t really choose to start working from home, and the rest of the family are not very happy about it – I’m always telling them to be quiet. The company decided that they had to close one of the offices. About twenty people had no office, and there wasn’t enough space in the main office for twenty more people. So, they decided some of us would work at home. Male voice 2: So, do you find that you get more work done?
Male voice 1: Well, yes and no. Sometimes, I really get a lot done in a very short time. In the office, there’s always someone coming and asking a question, or starting a conversation about something. At home, you don’t have that, of course. On the other hand, it’s easy to get distracted by jobs around the house. You start cleaning or tidying up or mending something. When you’re in the house all day, it’s difficult to leave things alone. Sometimes it’s midday before I really start work. Female voice: Yeah, and I find that I often get distracted by the TV or surfing the net. When everyone’s out of the house, I like to make a cup of coffee and watch the TV for ten minutes. I must admit, it’s often more like an hour. Male voice 2: My wife and the children don’t really understand that I’m really working when I’m at home. You know – they think I have time to do jobs around the house as well. ‘Jerry – could you fix the tap in the bathroom today?’ ‘Dad – can you drive me to football club this afternoon?’ It makes me crazy. Female voice: You just have to tell them you’re at work. I have a friend who works from home and he puts his suit on in the morning. He says that it makes him feel like he’s really at work. Male voice 1: I must say that one thing I do like is not having to get ready for work in the morning. I can just put on a pair of jeans or shorts – and I don’t need to shave for three days. Female voice: So, has your company set you up with a new computer or given you a new laptop? Male voice 1: That’s a bit of a problem, actually. They’ve set me up with a new computer – it’s really modern, and the Internet is really fast, but they say that I should only use it for work – you know – they don’t want me using it for personal business. They want me to use my own computer for anything that’s not connected with the job.
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