Mr. Brown had an interview for a job a week ago. He wanted to get the job very much but there was a big problem. Mr. Brown didn’t have enough practice. And what he wrote on his application form was not true. He was born in 1965, but he wrote 1968. He left school when he was sixteen, not eighteen. He worked as a tea-boy. He went to college in 1985. He got a diploma in business management. He didn’t go to University. It was his second job, not the third. He didn’t give good answers to the manager’s questions and didn’t get the job.
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3. Make up dialogues using the following words and phrases.
A. Good morning, an application form, speak about yourself in your own words, study in England, get a diploma in marketing, see you later.
B. be born, on a farm, primary school, look like a big square house, no electricity, grades, teach a lot of subjects, have no choice, rewarding.
4. Read and try to learn the dialogue.
Tom Hall: Good morning. Please sit down. Now I have your application form here. But tell me about yourself in your own words.
Rachel: Right. I was born in Manchester on the fifth of October, 1975. When I was twelve, my parents went to Africa.
Tom Hall: To Africa? Did you go with your parents?
Rachel: No, I stayed in England. I lived with my grandmother. But on holidays I went to Africa.
Tom Hall: Very nice. Where did you go to school?
Rachel: In Manchester. I went to the local primary school. Then, when I was twelve, I went to Claremont, the local secondary school.
Tom Hall: But you didn’t stay there, did you?
Rachel: No, I left when I was sixteen.
Tom Hall: Can I ask why?
Rachel: Yes, of course. I went to another school. Because Claremont didn’t teach Business Studies.
Tom Hall: Ah! And then?
Rachel: I went to college.
Tom Hall: And did you get a diploma in Marketing?
Rachel: That’s it.
Tom Hall: That’s nice.
5. Read the menu of an Indian restaurant. Then make some dialogues between the waiter and the customers.
Example:
Waiter: Good evening, sir. This is our menu, please.
Customer: Thank you. …I’d like to order now. Could I have some Chicken Shakuti?
Waiter: Yes, please. Would you like some vegetables?
Customer: Yes, I think. What is Bombay Aloo?
Waiter: It’s potato with hot spices.
Customer: It sounds good.
Waiter: Anything else?
Customer: A little plain water, please.
Waiter: Of course, sir. Here is your bill, sir.
Customer: Thank you.
6. Read the dialogue. Fill in the missing words.
Portions, pass, tomatoes, enough, order, meal, delicious, vegetable
Julia: Is this your first meal at the Indian restaurant?
John: Yes. Could you help me? What’s this? Lamb Rogan Gosht.
Julia: Lamb with…………..and yoghurt. Excuse me. We would like to…………….now, please.
Waiter: Yes, madam.
Julia: We’d like Chicken Shakuti and Lamb Rogan Gosht.
John: And a………………….. curry.
Waiter: Yes, sir.
Julia: Oh, yes. We’d like two……………..of rice.
Waiter: Anything else?
John: Yes, please. Could you bring us some Indian bread?
Waiter: Yes, sir. Just a moment. …Enjoy your meal!
Julia: Do you like it?
John: I like this lamb. It’s………………. But the chicken…Phew! Sorry. No. I don’t like it.
Julia: Oh. Would you like some more lamb, then?
John: No, thanks. This is………….. Could you………………the bread, please? …Thank you.
Waiter: How was your…………………., madam?
Julia: Very good.
Waiter: Sir?
John: Great! My first Indian meal. But not my last.
7. Read this text.
A Retired Teacher
Billie worked as a school teacher for thirty-four years in the United States. She is now a retired teacher. Billie tells us about her personal life and the life of the people at the beginning of the twentieth century.
She was born on a farm near Millville, Minnesota, in 1916. They had no electricity on the farm. She went to school in Millville. The school looked like a big, square house. And there were four grades. The smaller people were downstairs – those who were six, seven, eight and nine years old. These were all ages in the same room. One teacher taught all the subjects to these four grades.