33. A job interview


Within a few years our students who enter university in Spain will have to pass an aural (oral) exam of English, as a part of the examination of Selectividad.



A highly helpful activity. For an advanced class, or just one activity (project) you want to carry out with your students, for them to leap high.



To maintain a job interview with them.



She, for example, a student in your class, wishes to be hired as a secretary for the President of a local company near your town. Or for the National Manager of General Motors, Inc.



Let her prepare the interview, on her own, predicting likely inquiries and questions. Possible vocabulary. Good answers and responses.



She eagerly wants to enter! For her career, and for her family. Let her make up her résumé (CV), maybe with your help. Also help her with possible questions, defending and briefing furtherly about the résumé too. Brainstorm useful vocabulary, make lists of helpful lexis, practice suitable verbal tenses.



I mean, the point is to make up out a professional and well interwoven conversation.



This is a realistic and exciting project to do in and out of the classroom, and the experience tells us this activity boosts our students to try to reach high level English, and besides, oral!



Go yonder fear! Have a try. Try to get your students excited with the idea.



Oh, try relaxing techniques, elegance, somehow showing-off expressions but modesty same time, first-impression appearance, even concerning how dressing up, make-up, how to say same idea with other words, when faltering voice or expressions, turn-takings, politeness, inflections of the voice - well it is up to the level you and your students want to reach.



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