Unit 4a Book

In order to get an idea what your future employer will probably require, it is a good idea to look at some job adverts. When you do that, you will see that the area of job seeking is packed with some specific vocabulary that can be divided into the following categories: information about the company, personal qualities and experience, type of contract, salary and benefits, application and interview. In this task, you will study short extracts from job advertisements and divide them into the categories listed above according to the information they contain. This will help you absorb the basic job-related vocabulary. This follow-up task will then be more specific, focusing on vocabulary useful for describing your personal qualities and abilities. Basically, there are two ways to talk about your personal traits: either you can use nouns or adjectives. Therefore, the following task will focus on noun-to-adjective conversions. This is closely related to verbs these expressions are associated with. For example, the phrase “be able to” is followed with a verb, “have” needs a noun, and “be” needs to be followed with an adjective. Try to distinguish between these categories in this task. Finally, this task gives explanations of some other job-related vocabulary and this one focuses on some common adjective-noun collocations.