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Job interview

Offers

Job Interview questions

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Where were you born?
3. Did you go to school there?

Let's talk about your skills...

1. What can you do?
2. Do you have experience in lab analysis?
3. What are your strengths?
4. What are your weaknesses?

Let's talk about the moment...

1. What are you doing, at the moment?
2. Where are you doing your training course?
3. What did you learn?
4. When will the course finish?

Let's talk about your experience...

1. What was your last job?
2. What did you do in your last job?
3. How long were you there?
4. Why did you leave your job? 

Let's talk about the future...

1. What are your plans for the near future?
2. Where do you see yourself in five years?

EXTRA HELP

Here are some other frequent questions (click to have a clue for your answer)

1. Tell me a little about yourself.
2. What are your strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. What are your short term goals?
5. What are your long term goals?
6. What do you want to be doing five years from now?
7. If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be...
8. What does success mean to you?
9. What does failure mean to you?
10. Are you an organized person?
11. In what ways are you organized and disorganized?
12. Do you manage your time well?
13. How do you handle change?
14. How do you make important decisions?
15. Do you work well under pressure?

Just for fun

Talking about the future

Future with 'will'

Exercises:

Will - Future Tense
Will - Negative
Will - Questions

Future with 'going to' 

Positive	Negative
I am going to	I am not going to
You are going to	You are not going to
He is going to	He is not going to
She is going to	She is not going to
It is going to	It is not going to
We are going to	We are not going to
You are going to	You are not going to
They are going to	They are not going to

Affirmative	You	are	going to	win the race.
	Subject	BE	GOING TO
Question	Are	you	going to	win the race?
	BE	Subject	GOING TO

Exercises:
Going To - Future Tense
Going To - Negative
Going To - Questions

Will or going to?

Final exercise

Global Goals for the sustainable development

What are the Global Goals?

https://www.globalgoals.org/

The pandemic

War in Ukraine

https://www.globalgoals.org/news/five-ways-you-can-support-ukraine/

Past simple negative and interrogative

 

Revisions about the Past simple

Exercises:

Past Tense - Negative
Past Tense - Questions
Past Tense - "Wh" Questions 

Final video/song exercise

Talking about the past

1 - Past simple (regular or irregular)

With most verbs, the past tense is formed by adding –ed:

called

liked

wanted

worked

But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms:

Base form	Past tense
be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write	was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote

We use the past tense to talk about:

• something that happened once in the past:

I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.

• something that happened several times in the past:

When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.

• something that was true for some time in the past:

I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.

• we often use expressions with ago with the past simple:

I met my wife a long time ago.

Exercises:

Past Tense - Regular Verbs
Past Tense - Irregular Verbs - 1
Past Tense - Irregular Verbs - 2

Past simple  - British Council

Soft skills

 What are soft skills?

1 - Learn about Soft skills

https://youtu.be/_bZi-34IFxs

 

2 - Do you have any of these skills?  

 

1.            Ability to Work Under Pressure and Time Management

2.            Communication

3.            Decisiveness and confidence

4.            Flexibility and multitasking

5.            Leadership

6.            Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

7.            Problem Solving

8.            Responsibility and dependability

9.            Self-Motivation

10.         Teamwork

  

2.1 - Give me a context (in your life) where you developed three of the skills above.

 

2.2 - Give me a name, or names, from your life experience, of references (someone that would confirm your skill).

  

3 - Include those skills, contexts and references in your CV

EXTRA: Are you interested in soft skills? You can learn more!

For example, in this platform: https://up2u.ipleiria.pt/

Or with Google Digital Academy: https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/courses

LEC - Exercício 2 para PRA - Writing a CV

Exercício 2 de LEC para PRA: Fazer o Curriculum Vitae em Inglês.

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