Project One---Starting Your Business

1. Project One---Starting Your Business Applying for a job

2. Objectives • To enable Ss to talk about job applications and interviews • To practice reading and listening for specific information • To practice writing a letter of application • To review indirect questions • Materials needed: Cassette- Pass Cambridge BEC Preliminary

3. Part 1 Application letters • Reading Ss read an advertisement for a secretarial job and answer questions. Ss then order an applicant's notes about the advertisement. • Language focus Ss match typical application letter language with the notes. • Writing Ss work in pairs and write the applicant's letter of application.

4. Part 1 Application letters • 要点解析 • ￡16K: 16000 英镑， K=1000(千)。 • O/T= overtime: 加班。 • vwm=words per minute: 每分钟（打）字数，这是对速记打字能力的要求。 • MS Office experience 的意思是：有办公文稿处理经验。MS是manuscript (手稿，文稿的)缩写。

5. Part 1 Application letters • 参考词语和表达 • With reference to ...关于 • I am writing with reference to your advertisement in ... 我写此信是关于贵公司在......所做的广告 • I am writing to apply for...我写此信是要向您申请......职位 • I am a graduate of..., specializing in ...我毕业于......, 主修...... • Please find enclosed... 随函附上......请查收

6. Part 1 Application letters • 要点解析（听力录音文字稿） • My department as part of my degree but isn’t as good as my English or Italian. 法语是我的学位课程的一部分，不过我的发语不如我的英语和意大利语。 • I did French as part • So, that’s reasonable French. 这么说，法语还不错。Reasonable 在此的意思是：not bad 还不错。 • You’re not the only one.这句话的意思是：You’re not only the one who needs to practice a bit more. 你不是唯一需要多来练习的人。 • I still use two fingers! 我还在用两个指头敲键盘呢。熟练的键盘打字技术要求用十个指头敲键盘，并按照一定的指法规定操作。“用两个指头敲键盘”，暗含说话人自己的技法也不怎么样。

7. Part 1 Application letters • 要点解析 • 间接疑问句属于间接引语的一种形式。间接引语涉及面较广，本小节仅对将直接疑问几变成间接疑问句的情况作简要介绍。一般疑问句变为间接引语时通常以 whether 或 if 为引导词，但选择疑问句变为间接引语时，只用whether 作引导词。例如： • Does Alec work downtown? ____ Can you tell me whether/ if Alec works downtown? 或He asked whether/if Alec worked in your office? • Is the door open or closed? ___________ Can you tell me whether the door is open or closed. • 而由特殊疑问句转换的间接引语通常以wh- 词为引导词。例如： • Why do you come so late? _________ Mary wanted to know why he came so late. • How did you repair it? _________ My boss asked me how I had repaired it.

8. Part 1 Application letters • 见解引语在多数情况下构成宾语从句。宾语从句中动词的时体形式、人称代词、指示代词、时间状语和地点状语及主谓词序等往往要作相应的变化。请看下表： • 在直接引语中在间接引语中指示代词this these that those 时间状语now today yesterday last weektomorrownext weektwo years agothenthat day the day before the week before the next daythe next yeartwo days before地点状语herethere动词时态一般现在时现在进行时现在完成时一般过去时过去完成时come may must一般过去时过去完成时过去完成时过去完成时过去完成时（不变）could might must/had to 动词的变化come bring go take

9. Part 1 Attending an interview • Listening Ss transform the interviewer's notes into polite questions. • They then listen to the interview and compare the questions used. Ss listen again and write down the applicant's answers to the questions. • Language focus Ss review the form and use of indirect questions. • Speaking Ss ask and answer polite questions in pairs in order to fill in their partner's application form. Ss then discuss how to answer four awkward interview questions and compare their ideas with those in Exercise 4 of Self-study.

10. Self-study • Language focus Transformation exercise (indirect questions). • Vocabulary Word-field (qualities and skills). • Language focus Jumbled sentences (letter-writing). • Exam practice ‘Right, Wrong, Doesn't say' questions (Reading Test Part 4).