Talking Face to Face

1. Session 1 Talking Face to Face Being All Ears

2. Section I Talking Face to Face Lead in Follow the Samples Act out Put in Use

3. Lead in Warm-up Questions Job Interview

4. Lead in Warm-up questions: 1. What is the most common way for people to know a job position? 2. What do you think is the most important step for job application? Through advertisements in newspapers, on TV, in radio, in the Internet, and even through mobile phones, etc. Interview

5. Lead in Job Interview If you are looking for a job, you'd better read advertisements first. After you reply to the relevant company, you may be asked to have a job interview. Now look at the following job advertisements and try to practice two short dialogues.

6. Follow the Samples Warm-up Questions Sample 1 Sample 2

7. Follow the Samples Related Questions 1. How do you understand job advertisements in English? A. We require a person for full-time sales in our clothing department. B. No sales experience is necessary/needed. C. Must be neat in appearance and strong people skills are an advantage. D. The company is seeking outstanding applicants in any area of information technology.

8. Follow the Samples Related Questions 2. Do you know how to apply for a job in English? A.I’d like to know if you need any teaching assistant. B. I’d like to come in and apply for the job of accountant. Can you give me a chance? C. Do you still have an opening for a salesman?` D. Can you fix me up with a part-time job?

9. Follow the Samples Related Questions 3. Do you know what questions an interviewer often asks during an interview? A. Why do you want this job? B. Can you tell me something about your education? C. Can you speak any other foreign language? D. Why do you think you can work as an editor? E. What are your other personal interests?

10. Follow the Samples Related Questions 4. Do you know how to give responses to the interviewer’s questions in English? A. I’m good at reading as well as making judgment. B. I think it is within the field of my study. C. I want to live on my own. D. I don’t know much about your business, but I know a lot about computers. I’ll try my best.

11. Follow the Samples Related Questions 5. Do you know how people talk about their jobs in English? A. If we need you to travel frequently on business, would that be okay for you? B. OK. You are just the sort of person we need. Now I want to know when you can start working for us. C. Well, I don’t think the job is suitable for me. D. There will be fun in doing this job. E. The prospects in my present job are not desirable.

12. ACT OUT Task One Task Two Task Three Task Four Task Five

13. Section II Being All Ears Listen & Decode Listen & Respond Listen & Read Listen & Match Listen & Conclude

14. Reference Listen & Decode 1. Listen to a dialogue and decode the message by finding the correct choices in the blanks according to what you hear. Mr. 1(Liang, Winston, Walmart) is a job seeker. One day he finds an ad for a shop 2 (doorkeeper, manager, assistant) in a newspaper. Then he gives a phone call to 3 (Allison, Mike, Franklin) about it. He says he has 4 (three, four, five) years’ experience in a 5 ( bookstore, department store, company). He expects to have an interview and his telephone number is 6 (3425349, 2425349, 3245349). He also says that he can come to the interview on 7 (Tuesday, Monday, Thursday) afternoon. Mr. 1(Liang, Winston, Walmart) is a job seeker. One day he finds an ad for a shop 2 (doorkeeper, manager, assistant) in a newspaper. Then he gives a phone call to 3 (Allison, Mike, Franklin) about it. He says he has 4 (three, four, five) years’ experience in a 5 ( bookstore, department store, company). He expects to have an interview and his telephone number is 6 (3425349, 2425349, 3245349). He also says that he can come to the interview on 7 (Tuesday, Monday, Thursday) afternoon.

15. Listen & Respond 2. Listen to the dialogue again and then answer the following questions orally. 1. Who was asking for a job? And what job was he asking for? 2.  How did he know about the position? 3. Who was the person Liang called? And what did he want to know about the applicant first? 4. Why did he ask the applicant to spell his name and give his telephone number? 5. When would the applicant come to the interview?

16. Listen & Respond 1. Who was asking for a job? And what job was he asking for? Mr. Liang was asking for the job of a shop assistant. 2. How did he know about the position? He learned about the position from an ad in a newspaper. 3. Who was the person Liang called? And what did he want to know about the applicant first? Mike Winston. He wanted to know whether the job applicant had any experience of the job.

17. Listen & Respond 4. Why did he ask the applicant to spell his name and give his telephone number? Because he wanted to make an appointment for an interview. 5. When would the applicant come to the interview? On Thursday afternoon.

18. Listen & Read 3. Now listen to something more challenging --- a passage with some blanks for you to fill in. The words in the brackets will give you some hints. unusual Job interviews are 1 (what?) ________ types of conversations because they are not really exchanges of information: the interviewer often has much of the information 2 (what?) ________ in the job 3 (what?) ________ or resume. The job applicant is asked to further 4 (do what?) ______ some of the information, but the interview is really more of an 5 (what?) ________ to find out how well the applicant presents himself or herself. The interviewee should explain and offer6 (what?) ________, rather than just give “yes” or “no”7 (what?) ________. A team of interviewers often works together to ask questions and 8 (do what?) ________ the prospective (未来的) employee.   available application explain opportunity information responses evaluate

19. Listen & Read Remember that you are being evaluated from the moment you 9 (do what?) ________ the interview room. Consequently   walk in quickly and cheerfully,   shake hands 10 (how?) ________, because a limp (无力的) handshake creates an image of a weak applicant,   repeat the person’s name as you 11 (do what?) ____________ and look him or her directly in the eye, and sit when invited to do so, 12 (doing what?) ________ yourself well back in the chair, making yourself 13 (what condition?) ________ and avoiding folding your arms across your chest. step into firmly are introduced pushing comfortable

20. Listen & Match 4. Listen to the passage again and match the information in Column A with the choices in Column B. Column A Column B • Before the interview, the interviewer already knows something about the applicant from ________   a. his or her application letter and resume.   b. a telephone conversation with him or her.   c. the applicant’s former boss.

21. Listen & Match Column A Column B a. have a chance to meet the applicant.   b. check the information given by the applicant.   c. find out how well the applicant presents himself or herself.   • 2. The major purpose of an interview is for the boss to ________

22. Listen & Match Column A Column B a. simply give “yes” or “no” responses.   b. offer more information.   c. appear cheerfully. 3. When answering the questions, an interviewee should ________  

23. Listen & Match Column A Column B • As soon as the • applicant enters • the interview • room, _____ a. evaluation of him or her starts.   b. exchange of information starts.   c. introduction of each other starts.  

24. Listen & Match Column A Column B 5. The main purpose of the passage is to tell the interviewees ________ a. what job interviews are.   b. what they should say in a job interview.   c. how to do in a job interview.

25. Reference Listen and Conclude 5. Write out the general idea of the passage by answering the following questions. 1. Why are job interviews unusual types of conversations?   2. What are the job applicants asked to do during an interview?   3. What do the interviewers want to find out about the applicants through the interview?   4. How should the interviewees answer the interviewers’ questions?   5. When does the evaluation of the interviewees start?   6. When the interviewees walk into the room, how should they behave?   7. How should the applicants behave before the interviewers?  

26. Assignments 1. Oral work: A. Group work: Please Create a situation of a job interview in groups. One student plays the part of an interviewee, and the others the interviewers. The interview should last for at least 3 minutes. B. Pair work: Please discuss in pairs what they want to do and should do if they are going to take a job interview. 2. Preparation work: A. Remember the new words in Passage I. B. Read Passage I for several times. C. Do all the exercises after Passage I.

27. Reference Remember that you are being interviewed from the moment you step into the interview room. Consequently   walk in quickly and cheerfully,   shake hands firmly.   repeat the person’s name as you are introduced and look him or her directly in the eye, and sit when invited to do so, pushing yourself well back in the chair, making yourself comfortable and avoiding folding your arms across your chest.