Contact Details Peter Heymans peter.heymans@gmail

Contact Details

Peter Heymans

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Important dates

22/10/2014: Listening test

26/10/2014-2/11/2014: Autumn break

3/12/2014: Listening test

21/12/2014-4/1/2015: Christmas holiday

3/6/2015: Final class

Word Cards: Job Vocabulary

Don’t show the card to the other people in your group

Try to explain the word, but don’t mention the word

If you don’t know the word, give your paper to someone else in your group

When people have guessed it, give the next paper to someone else


A bricklayersomeone whose job is to build walls using bricks

A pay rise/cutan increase/decrease in your salary (American English: a pay raise)

To resign, to quit, to hand in/give your notice, to stand downto state formally that you are leaving a job permanently

To retire to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work

To fire (informal) /sack (informal) /lay off/ to dismiss / to let someone go (euphemism)to tell someone that they can no longer work at their job


Perksan extra payment or benefit that you get in your job


To perk you upif something perks you up, you begin to feel happier or more lively

She has a coffee every morning, because it perks her up.

Cool down: Word cards

A bricklayer A job interview Salary

A pay rise/cut To apply for To resign/quit

To fire/sack/lay off A job opening / vacancy A job advert

To retire A plumber To do/work overtime

To do shiftwork A nine-to-five job Perks/extra benefits

Grammar reference: p. 131

1. Adam has been cycling competitively since he was a teenager. (emphasis on duration and repetition)

2. Guess what! I’ve finally joined the sports club. (you can join a club only once, no repetition)

3. I have an awful feeling that I’ve broken my toe! (I broke my toe once, no repetition)

4. Mia’s been preparing for her final exams for months. (emphasis on duration: for months)

5. I’m not really crying. I’ve been cutting onions! (emphasis on the action)

6. Sonia’s been married since she was 18. (she got married only once, no repetition)

7. Have you ever thought about becoming a vegetarian? (state verb)8. You look exhausted! What have you been doing? (emphasis on action)9. Not again! You’ve already watched this film twice. (focus on the

result)10.Sorry I didn’t hear the phone. I’ve been working in the garden. (focus

on the action)11.Have you finished your coffee? Would you like another? (you can finish

your coffee only once, no repetition)12.I’ve only seen Ben a couple of times since we left school. (state verb)

State verbs

Some state verbs can be used in a continuous/progressive sense (-ing), but with a different meaning

Taste (state) has a certain taste

This soup tastes greatThe coffee tastes really bitter

Taste (dynamic) the action of tasting

The chef is tasting the soup

State verbs

Some state verbs can be used in a continuous/progressive sense (-ing), but with a different meaning

You are stupid It's part of your personality

You are being stupidOnly now, not usually

Be is usually a state verb, but when it is used in the continuous it means 'behaving' or 'acting‘

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Presentation task

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Unit 1Talented

Transferable skills

Endurancethe ability to do something difficult for a long time

The long journey tested their courage and endurance to the limit.

beyond endurance: There was something about him that irritated Lydia almost beyond endurance.

Transferable skills: good at/in/with

To be good at + activity

He’s good at football. She’s good at product design. Her mother is good at Trivial Pursuit.

To be good at/in + school subjects

Jerry is good at math: he always finishes first. Jerry is good in math: he makes all A’s.

To be good with + objects/tools...

Because Daiki is good with numbers, he plans to study accounting. Maribel is good with children; she wants to be an elementary teacher. Amos is good with his hands; he remodeled the entire house. Lilah is good with money; she saves at least 40% of her allowance every week.

Transferable skills

To delegate /ˈdeləɡeɪt/to give part of your work, duties, or responsibilities to someone who is junior to you

Because Henry hated to delegate, he was always overworked. delegate something to someone: He always delegates boring

tasks to his assistant.

A delegate /ˈdeləɡət/someone who is chosen to represent a group of other people at a meeting

Transferable skills

Vitally importantVery important (note: vital already means very important)

A job seekersomeone who is looking for a job. This word is used mainly by

government officials.

ParentingThe activities involved in being a parent and bringing up children

Transferable skills

What are transferable skills?Skills from one part of your life which you can use in another part of your life.

When people use this term, they’re usually thinking about skills which can be transferred to work from outside work (e.g. a hobby) or from one kind of work to another (e.g. when you change occupations).

Transferable skills: Role Play

Student A wants to apply for one of the jobs: decide which job

Student B will interview Student A

Preparation: Student A tries to come up with some relevant skills; Student B tries to think of some questions

Have a conversation (use some of the phrases you’ve just learnt)

Switch roles

I’ll listen to only one group and these two students will get more detailed feedback.

Transferable skills: Typical questions in a job interview

1. What are your strengths?2. What are your weaknesses?3. Tell me about yourself.4. Why are you interested in working for [insert company name here]?5. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?6. Why do you want to leave your current company?7. Why was there a gap in your employment between [insert

date] and [insert date]?8. What can you offer us that someone else can not?9. Are you willing to relocate?10.Are you willing to travel?11.Are you willing to work overtime when necessary?12.Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.13.Tell me about a time you made a mistake.

Transferable skills: Atypical questions in a job interview

1. If you were given a box of pencils, list three things you could do with them that are not their traditional use. (Google)

2. Tell me a joke (JP Morgan)

3. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap? (Google)

4. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew. (Google)

5. On a scale from one to ten, rate me as an interviewer. (Kraft Foods)

6. Why wouldn’t I hire you? (Twitter)

7. What songs best describe your work ethic? (Dell)

8. How would you cure world hunger? (Amazon.com)

Transferable skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I

Confusing words: high or tall?


What is the rule?

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tall


high


tall


high

What is status anxiety? /æŋˈzaɪəti/the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties (the worries, the fear) that result from a focus on how your social status is perceived by others (Wikipedia)

A kinder, gentler philosophy of success


Alain de Botton

a Swiss/British writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, resident in the United Kingdom.

His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. At 23, he published Essays In Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004) and The Architecture Of Happiness (2006).

In August 2008, he was a founding member of a new educational establishment in central London called The School of Life. In May 2009, he was a founding member of a new architectural organization called “Living Architecture.”

(Wikipedia)


First listening (without subtitles)

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http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success?language=en





Problem?Status anxiety: we worry too much about our social status (our jobs, our careers)


Second listening (with subtitles)

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Focus on:

Vocabulary Pronunciation Details


How does de Botton define job snobbery?A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are

Job snobbery: a focus/obsession with your job title (at a party: “what do you do?”) Why do we care so much about our jobs?The amount of time, respect and love that we receive is (often) defined by our position in the social hierarchy


Why are people in a democratic society, where everyone is equal, more likely to be envious of one another?We can only be envious of people that are like us, people we can relate to, people that started out with equal opportunities (so not the Queen) you should never go to a school reunion What is the difference between an unfortunate and a loser?Unfortunate: you’re not successful because of divine reasons (fortune)Loser: it’s your own fault


What is the solution? Tragic art (drama or literature): it’s often about people that failed in

life but it is usually written not so much to ridicule or judge people, but to inspire sympathy (that is the message of tragedy)

There’s always an element of loss and failure: we should accept this

We should know that our ideas of success are not our own (they’re from our parents, our media): we should be the authors of our own ambitions





In groups of three

Every student picks a card and talks about the question (you’re allowed to skip one question)

Pronunciation exercise: ʌ

BBC: The Sounds of English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_3.shtml

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o pronounced as /ʌ/

above - among - another - brother - colour - come - comfort - company - compass - cover - done - dove - dozen - front - glove - government - honey - London - love - lover - Monday - money - mongrel - monk - monkey - month - mother - none - nothing - one - once - onion - other - oven - some - son - sponge - stomach - ton - tongue - won – wonder






just my luck used for saying that something bad happened because you are not a lucky person

To chuckTo throw something

Shovel

Pronunciation exercise: ʌTo shoveto move something, or to put it somewhere, quickly and carelessly

CrumbsUsed to express surprise

To be done forINFORMAL to be likely to be punished, hurt, or killed

HushBe quiet

Cool down: Commonly mispronounced words


Height /haɪt/ (haayt); the pronunciation is as if it were written “hight”. The “e” is there just to confuse foreigners.

Subtle /ˈsʌtl/ (sʌ-tl); “btle” simply doesn’t sound good. Just don’t pronounce the “b”.

Draught /drɑːft/ (draaft); this is just the British spelling of “draft”, and is also pronounced the same. It is not spelled this way in all of the meanings of “draft”; for example when it is a verb (i.e. when someone drafts something), it is spelled “draft” in British English as well.

Meaning?cold air that blows into a room and makes you feel uncomfortable Also: on draught (beer that is served directly from a barrel)


Recipe/ˈrɛsəpi/ (res-ə-pee); “cipe” in this case doesn’t rhyme with “ripe”; it consists of two separate syllables.

Womb/wuːm/ (woom), tomb /tuːm/ (toom); people tend to pronounce “o” as in “lot”. Think about “tomb” as about “to”+”mb”. “Mb” may sound nice in Swahili, but not so much in English, so the “b” is silent. The same applies to the other words in which “mb” is a part of the same syllable, such as numb /nʌm/.


Colonel/ˈkɜːnəl/ (kə-ə-nl) (UK), /ˈkɜrnl/ (kər-nl) (US); is there a kernel inside a colonel? Well, at least in pronunciation, there is.

comfortable /ˈkʌmfətəbl/ (kʌm-fə-tə-bl) (UK), in US also /ˈkʌmftəbəl/ (kʌmf-tə-bl); if you “come for a table” to a furniture shop, it will hopefully be comfortable, although it doesn’t rhyme with it.

lieutenant /lefˈtenənt/ (lef-ten-ənt) (UK), /luˈtɛnənt/ (loo-ten-ənt) (US); the American pronunciation poses no problem here; just notice the British one.

Hyperbole/haɪˈpɜːbəli/ (haay-pə-ə-bə-lee) (UK), /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ (haay-pər-bə-lee) (US); don’t confuse this word with a hyperbola, a geometrical shape. Hyperbole is a form of exaggeration, and it doesn’t rhyme with a bowl.


Greenwich/ˌgrɛnɪtʃ/ (gren-itch); you probably know this word from the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) time standard. Just remember that there is no green witch in Greenwich.

Paradigm/ˈpærədaɪm/ (pær-ə-daaym); the pronunciation is quite natural, but some people are ‘digging’ this word a little bit too much. There is no ‘dig’ sound inside it.

Infamous /ˈɪnfəməs/ (in-fə-məs); although the word is just “famous” with the prefix “in-” stuck in the front, it is not pronounced so.


Throughout/θruːˈaʊt/ (through – out): in every part of a place; during the whole of a period of time or an event

Thorough/ˈθʌrə/ (thu – ru): including everything that is possible or necessary

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