A. Read Adam Hall’s Curriculum Vitae (CV).
| Date of birth: Address: Tel.: Email: | 25 February 1990 25 Victoria Road, Birmingham B19 2ZK 01218953 9914 [email protected] | |||
| Profile | A highly-motivated, well-travelled, and creative graduate with practical work experience in both sales and TEFL[4] teaching. A 4-month postgraduate residency at the Biosphere 2 Center, Arizona, has given me wide-ranging knowledge of, and insight into, environmental problems and ways of presenting them to the public. | |||
| Education | 1998-2002 2002-2006 July, 2004 | King Edward's School, Birmingham 0 Levels[5]: Art, Biology, Chemistry, English, French, Geography, History, Maths, Spanish A levels:[6] Art A Environmental Studies A Chemistry B Spanish B Leeds Metropolitan University BA[7] Environmental Studies: 2:1 Academy School of English, Leeds Cert CELTA | ||
| Work experience | April 1999 – July 1999 January 2002 - May 2002 | Weekend sales assistant, Kings Norton Garden Centre, Birmingham TEFL tutor, JA School of English, Katowice, Poland | ||
| Other information | September 2003 December 2003 May 15-16,2004 June 20-24, 2004 | 4-month residency at the Biosphere 2 Cent Arizona, USA Co-presented 'No smoke' at the Bretton Hall Sculpture Park, University of Leeds. An installation which explored the environmental implications of major forest fires, both natural and man-made. Co-presented 'Time microscope' at the Covent Garden Flower Festival. An installation which explored different ways of presenting information about the natural world | ||
| Interests | My main interest outside work, although related to it, is travel. In 19— I took part in a school expedition to the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, and produced a video of the trip. In my gap year I travelled extensively in South America, again documenting the trip by means of sketchbooks and video. I also enjoy World Music, particularly that from countries I have visited, and play the guitar | |||
| References | Prof. T.N- Fagin Department of Environmental Studies Leeds Metropolitan University LS23RX | Dr Elizabeth Gordon Principal JA School of English Ulica Czysta 14 Katowice Poland | ||
B. Answer the questions.
1) Where did Adam study environmental problems?
2) What did he do while he was in Poland?
3) Who is Dr Elizabeth Gordon?
4) What do you think Adam's main interest is?
5) Where did Adam graduate from?
6) What commercial experience has he had?
C. Write a CV to attract employers and make them want to employ you as an Economist of Sales Department to a Coca-Cola company. Remember that the perfect CV should be:
 Well-structured Short, simple and clear Easy to read and professional looking | Suitable to the job and the employer Focused on the results not simply competency Free of unnecessary details |
| Without spelling and punctuation errors Grammatically perfect Not your hobbies and interests unless they demonstrate relevant job qualities One or two pages maximum |
WORD FILE
| Unit 1 Module 3 | ||
| advertisement after-hours activities attitude to smth available (jobs) colleague = co-worker deadline employment agency in advance majority of qualifications skills smart (clothes) to criticize to get involved in (office gossip) to keep doing smth to look approachable to make a good/strong impression on smb | to make eye contact to make personal calls to match smth e.g. qualifications to take advantage of to trust to watch the things you say to work out accurate ambitious cautious conventional convincing demanding dynamic efficient experienced honest | nervous obedient organized patient polite predictable punctual relaxed reliable responsible secure self-confident sensitive sincere systematic tidy tolerant trustworthy |
UNIT 2
NATIVE LAND
Module 1 Russia
PREVIEW
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A. What do you know about Russia? Match the above pictures 1-6 with descriptions a) – f). What information can you give about the pictures?
a) The Cathedral of the Redeemer d) Peter the Great
b) The Red Square e) Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation
c) The flag of Russia f) First Russian cosmonaut
SAYING DATES
| Years | Ordinal numbers |
| 1984 nineteen eighty four 2010 two thousand and ten | 1st first 2nd second 3rd third 4th fourth 5th fifth |
| Dates | |
| 3rd April 1998 (BrE) the third of April, nineteen ninety eight 3 April 1998 (BrE) April thethird, nineteen ninety eight April 3, 1998 (AmE) April third, nineteen ninety eight |
| New year is Victory day is Women’s day is Independence day is Christmas is Day of Knowledge is Day of the defender of Motherland is | on 9th May on 1st September on 7th January on 23rd February on 31st December on 12th June on 8th March |