Transcript Finding the Ideal Job

NorthStar Basic/Low Intermediate
Reading and Writing
Unit 1: Finding the Ideal Job
Prepared by
Mrs. Azza Khattab Omar
English Language Institute
King Abdul Aziz University
The main idea of the unit
How to find the ideal job for you
( job hunting )
The traditional way of job hunting
The modern way of job hunting
( What colour is your parachute?)
When you try to hunt a job, you
should consider your skills, job
settings, and job rewards.
Vocabulary :
Ideal (adj): the most suitable / perfect
Career (n): the job you have for a long time.
Employment (n): work which you are paid for
Employ (v): employee (n) / employer (n)
Hire (v): to give someone a job
Manager (n): the one in charge of a group of
workers
Out of work (phrase): not having a job /
unemployed
Resume (n): CV – your work and education history
More Vocabulary:
Rewards (n): good things you get in return for
work such as
( money or healthy insurance)
Satisfied with (adj): to be happy about something
satisfaction (n) – satisfy (v)
Skill (n): ability that you learn and practise
Want ads (n): advertisements for available jobs
Manual (n): book, information, newspaper
Expert (n) : a person who knows a lot about
something
Reading one: Main idea
The passage compares the traditional way
to hunt a job to the modern way of Bolles
( What colour is your parachute? )
The traditional way to hunt a job :
read want ads, send your resume to a lot
of employers or companies, get help from a
friend or a relative, go to a recruitment (
employment) agency and leave your
resume.
Reading one : Main idea
The modern way of Bolles :
A job hunter should think of :
His / Her skills
( what ability are you good at? )
Job setting
( Where do you to like to work ?
what people would you like to work or deal with ? )
Job rewards
( What salary will you be satisfied with?
What do you expect from the job? )
Reading two : Main idea
The passage talks about how to be paid for
the job of your dreams.
It gives examples of three people who
succeeded in doing the jobs that suited
their skills.
The first became a career consultant.
The second became a matchmaker.
The third became a skydiving
teacher.
The three people got their ideal jobs or
their dream jobs.
Style: The sentence:
An English sentence must have :
a subject and a verb.
Faisal is a doctor.
In commands we don’t use a subject.
A command starts with a verb and the subject is always “you” but it
isn’t written.
Open the door.
A subject can be :
one word or many words:
They met their friends yesterday. ( one word )
Maha and Mona are friends. ( many words )
A subject cannot be repeated:
Marwa she came late. ( Wrong X )
Marwa came late. ( Correct )
The first letter of the first word in an English sentence must be written
in capital letter.
He speaks English.
Grammar :
Descriptive and Possessive
Adjectives
Descriptive adjectives:
They describe a noun. He is smart.
They can come before a noun. She is a nice girl.
We use “ a / an” before adjectives if they are
followed by a singular noun ( count nouns)
He’s an interesting person.
It’s a good news. ( Wrong X ) It’s good news. (
Correct )
We don’t use “a / an” when adjectives aren’t
followed by nouns.
Dina is beautiful. But ( Dina is a beautiful girl. )
Possessive adjectives:
They show belonging.
My job is very interesting.
A noun always follows a possessive adjective.
His car is new.
We don’t use “ a / an / the” with possessive adjectives.
It’s her book.
Possessive adjectives have the same form before singular
or plural nouns.
Your car is new.
Your cars are new.
Possessive adjectives are : my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Review exercises:
Choose the correct answer :
1- What ………………….do you think of having when you finish your
studies?
a) satisfaction
b) ads
c) career
d) review
2- The government is trying to encourage ………………..in the private
sector.
a) employment
b) resume
c) want ads
d) percent
3- He gave the secretary his …………………….before sitting for an
interview.
a) career
b) job
c) resume
d) employment
4- The ……………………..job for me is to become an architect.
a) wanted
b) ideal
c) satisfied
d) interested
5- My uncle is very upset because he is …………………..these days.
a) ideal
b) rewarded
c) out of work
d) out of order
6- The one who can solve this problem is the ………………of the company.
a) manager
b) percentage
c) career
d) skill
More review exercises:
Choose the correct answers:
1- Her dress is really exciting.
( Find out the possessive and the descriptive adjectives)
a) dress – is
b) Her – exciting
c) really
d) really exciting
2- They left the room very quickly. ( What is the underlined word ? )
a) The subject
b) The object
c) The verb
d) the preposition
3- Choose a sentence with a plural subject and a compound verb.
a) They had nice time there.
b) She is living in New York these days.
c) The students read and did some exercises .
d) None of the above.
4- Which of the following statements has a compound subject and a compound
verb?
a) They eat and drank.
b) The girl and her mother went shopping yesterday evening.
c) Faten and Alaa went shopping and had lunch together.
d) I will meet my friend tomorrow.
More review exercises:
5- Which of the following statements is correct ?
a) She is clever student.
b) They are a hardworking doctors.
c) He is a skillful engineer.
d) Both b and c
6- Choose the sentence which has a descriptive adjective followed by a
noun.
a) I am interested in my job.
b) They are clever.
c) She is an important writer.
d) Sarah is my friend.
Best Wishes