English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Today we worked on a video.
This exercise has two purposes.
-First, it will allow you to watch and listen to a job interview in English
-Second, it is designed to give you some training for your future oral exam called the CCF(=Contrôle en Cours de Formation) that you will take during the second term of next year where you will have to explain in English what you understand from a video or a recording in English.
Why don’t you tell me about yourself ?
IS A QUESTION THAT CAN BE ASKED IN A JOB INTERVIEW
I) PresPresentation of the document
What- Who- Where
-This document is video coming from a British website called videojug
-Topic: Tips an how to answer that question: why don't you tell me about yourself at a job interview?
We can see: A career consultant
A person who plays the role of the employer
A person who plays the role of the job applicant, the job seeker
The dos
Ce qu’il faut faire
| The don’ts Ce qu’il ne faut pas faire | |
| A job applicant must talk about his/her professional experience He/she must sell himself/herself
| A job applicant mustn’t speak about his/her hobbies A job applicant mustn’t speak about himself/herself |
GRAMMAR:
most effectively = le + efficacement
OBSERVONS:
You'd most likely get asked
=YOU WOULD+LIKELY+GET ASKED
Most likely= le plus probablement
Would à toutes les personnes +verbe est la marque du conditionnel présent : would + V
ex: I would go = j’iraiS
VOCABULARY:
Advice: conseil
Skills: compétences
To sell, sold, sold = vendre
I'm gonna + v = I'm going to + v: je vais + v T
To handle: to deal with
The kind of = la sorte de
Here is the video:
Thank you Amadou for your notes
Of course all this is to be learnt.