Listening.

Listen to an interview between a restaurant manager and a student and complete the form as you are the interviewer who asks the questions.

New words:

to apply – обращаться с просьбой, с заявлением

a waiter – официант

a shift – смена

I don’t mind – мне все равно

Happy Chicken

Restaurant Group

Employee Interview Form

Name: a……………………………….

Age: b……………………………….

Job wanted: c………………………………….

Shift preferred: d 7am-3pm/3pm-11pm/any

No. of days per week wanted: e………………………………

Start date: f………………………………………

Contact phone number: h……………………………………..

Best time to contact: i……………………………………………

Reading.

Read the following text.

Hard work and no money

Every year thousands of young people in Britain finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to University. Some young people go to another countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people – for example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they help with conservation.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to University to study Spanish, but now she is living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to protect the coral reefs in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral dies. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.

I’m staying with a family here and I help with the cooking and the cleaning. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize – and myself!. When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America”.

a). Mark the statements T (true) or F (false).

1) Pauline comes from Belize. ⬜

2) Pauline wants to save the coral reefs. ⬜

Young people in Britain go to University just after they finish school. ⬜
Pauline is studying the fish in the sea near Belize. ⬜
Pauline is unhappy because she doesn’t get any money. ⬜
Pauline wants to go home when she finishes her work. ⬜
Pauline thinks people need to help the coral reefs. ⬜

b). Turn the following sentences into negative.

Young people take a year off after school.
Pauline is living in Belize.
I’m helping to do research on the fish around the reefs.
I want to travel around Belize.
She wants to go to University to study Spanish.

Vocabulary and grammar.

Complete the sentences.

..... you at school last week?

Was b) Were c) Are

When we .... the office, it ...... .

left, was raining b) were leaving, was raining c) left, rained

It .... a small car, but it .... four doors.

is, is b) has, is c) is, has

Give the book to .... .

her b) she c) hers

Flying is ..... than driving.

the quicker b) quicker c) the quickest

They work ... night.

on b) at c) in

When we were children, our parents .... family problems with us.

discussed b) found c) thought

She was born twenty-five years ... in a small village.

since b) before c) ago

You have to be a very good .... to get a job as a chef..

cooker b) cookery c) cook

If you are hot, you can take .... your jacket.

off b) on c) away

You’re having a test next week, .....?

don’t you? b) are you? c) aren’t you?

We haven’t got .... money.

much b) many c) more

The ..... of the environment is everyone’s responsibility.

protect b) protection c) protective

She lives in …. Rome with her family.

- b) the c) a

Her hair …. lovely!

are b) is c) it’s

Use of English.

Complete these sentences by using the correct word from the box. There is an extra word which you do not need to use.

In a Language School.

water subjects exciting four problems love

making teacher boring summer learning

Fourteen-year-old Andy, who is from Korea, lives in France. He is (1) _________ French and is also studying English. What’s it like for him? “I (2)__________ living here,” says Andy, “and I’m beginning to feel like I’ve lived here my whole life and not for only (3)___________ years. I’m not usually very good at (4)___________ friends, but everyone here is so nice that I’m not having any (5)___________. If I don’t understand an exercise at school, I ask the (6)____________ or one of my friends to help me with it, and they always do. I enjoy most of the (7)_____________ we do at school, but I’m not very fond of history. It’s a bit (8)___________! Another thing I like about living here is that I’m able to do lots of (9)_____________ sports, like swimming and water-skiing. I’m really looking forward to my (10)____________ holidays this year because I want to learn windsurfing!”