Lesson 2

Listening

2. Listen to the presentation. Which three pieces of advice for finding the right internship does the speaker give?

The three pieces of advice are:
1. Identify what your interests are and try to find a work experience position that fits them.
2. Find out what the culture is like at companies you’d like to do work experience at, and try to choose a company whose culture you would enjoy working in.
3. Consider which work experience positions will give you the best chance of finding a permanent job afterwards.

Language

4. Read the comments that students wrote after watching the presentation online. Look at the verb forms in bold. Write P if they’re passive or A if they’re active.

1. It’s great if you can base your internship on something you really enjoy. A
2. In my opinion, all companies are organised in basically the same way, so I think it’s a bit of a waste of time to research this. P
3. I was offered a job at the company where I did an internship and this seems to happen often,
so you should definitely think about that when you’re applying. P

6. Choose the correct verb form for each sentence.

1. All of the candidates’ CVs are read/read by members of our human resources team.
2. I am/was invited to an information evening about internships at that company, but I couldn't go.
3. We are offered/offer all of our interns the chance to take part in our training programme.
4. This company is seemed/seems to be very popular with students who are looking for work experience.

Listening

7. You’re going to listen to the presentation again and evaluate how good it is. Tick (✓) the things the speaker does and mark the things the speaker doesn’t do with a cross (✗).

Good presentation techniques

1. Telling the audience what you’re going to talk about at the start of the presentation. ✓
2. Letting the audience know when you’re moving on to the next part of the presentation and making links between these different parts. ✓
3. Speaking fluently without many stops and starts. ✓
4. Explaining ideas or processes that you’re talking about with examples. ✓
5. Communicating with the audience, for example by asking them questions or checking their understanding of what you’ve said. ✗
6. Having a conclusion at the end of the presentation which summarises what you’ve talked about. ✗

10. Read the text. Use the context to work out the meaning of the words and match them with their meanings.

1. colossal d. very large
2. calamities a. find the reason why something happened
3. trifling b. small or unimportant
4. trace to c. big problems or accidents

11. Read the text again. Answer the questions about the writer’s beliefs.

1. When things go wrong, this is usually because ...
A. the person who’s ‘in charge’ is doing a very bad job.
B. nobody is in charge or nobody knows how to be ‘in charge’.
C. a lot of little accidents have happened and caused problems.

2. What do you do when you’re ‘in charge’?
A. You do everything that needs to be done yourself.
B. You educate other people so they know what needs to be done.
C. You do what needs to be done and check that other people do that too.