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Dear Ms. Jones:

I am writing to enquire if you have any vacancies in your company. I enclose my CV for your information.

As you can see, I have had extensive vacation work experience in office environments, the retail sector and service industries, giving me varied skills and the ability to work with many different types of people. I believe I could fit easily into your team.

I am a conscientious person who works hard and pays attention to detail. I’m flexible, quick to pick up new skills and eager to learn from others. I also have lots of ideas and enthusiasm. I’m keen to work for a company with a great reputation and high profile like [insert company name].

I have excellent references and would be delighted to discuss any possible vacancy with you at your convenience. In case you do not have any suitable openings at the moment, I would be grateful if you would keep my CV on file for any future possibilities.

Yours sincerely,

(Abridged and reviewed from: http://www.theguardian.com/careers/covering-letter-examples; https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CoverLetters.html; https://resumegenius.com/cover-letters-the-how-to-guide)

III. On Your Own

1. Role-play.

The university where you study is planning to introduce a new English course which is to be called “Topical Issues”. The purpose of the course is to study social issues of national and international importance. The Head of the Department has asked the students to call the meeting of the Department debating society and discuss students’ suggestions for what should be included in the course.

1.Elect the secretary of the meeting, who will take notes and present the minutes of the meeting.

2.Elect the chairman of the meeting, who will write the report to the Head of the Department, clearly stating the ideas that have been suggested, and in-

cluding any other relevant information, such as conclusions reached, students’ participation, etc. The chairman might need the minutes written by the secretary. You should write approximately 250 words.

3.After discussing the ideas and gathering opinions from the students, all other students should write a proposal to the Head of the Department, submitting up to three Best suggestions for consideration and saying why You think students would benefit from a deeper knowledge of these issues. You should write approximately 250 words.

2. Read each other’s papers from task 6 above. Is your partner’s paper relevant to the task? Assess and evaluate in writing your partner’s paper, checking for the following:

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type and form of writing;

purpose;

target reader;

structure, layout and organization (logical, easy to follow);

style, tone;

clarity of ideas;

accuracy of language.

3. Divide into 2 groups.

All the students of Group 1 should write a CV (with a personal profile) and a cover letter applying for a job (see the task for Group 1 below).

All the students from Group 2 should write a CV (with a personal profile) and a cover letter applying for a 1 year academic programme (see the task for Group 2 below). To write a CV you can use the CV template below.

CV Template

First name Second name

Address, Postcode

Phone number Email address

PERSONAL PROFILE

A short statement that outlines: Who you are (e.g. degree studying); what you bring (e.g. experience, specific skills, motivation, knowledge or a unique selling point); what role you are applying for.

EDUCATION

Start Year – End Year University of Leicester

Undergraduate Degree title and Grade (Received/Predicted) Relevant Modules

Dissertation and/or appropriate projects

Start Year – End Year Name of School, Location

A level: Subject (Grade), Subject (Grade), Subject (Grade) (or equivalent qualifications)

No. of GCSE’s (Grade Range) including Maths (Grade) and English (Grade) (or equivalent qualifications)

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Company/Organisation name, Location, Job title

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/ learning gained/ insights gained

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Company/Organisation name, Location, Job Title

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/ learning gained/ insights gained

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ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Company/Organisation name, Location, Job Title

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/ learning gained/ insights gained

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Company/Organisation name, job title

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/ learning gained/ insights gained

VOLUNTEERING

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Company/Organisation name, job title

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/ learning gained/ insights gained

CLUBS & SOCIETIES

Start Date (Month/Year) – End Date Club/Society Name, Role

Action Word (e.g. ‘Developed’ or ‘Delivered’) followed by key responsibility/achievement/skill(s) acquired/learning gained/insights gained

QUALIFICATIONS & AWARDS

Date Achieved Type of Award: One or two sentences describing the activities within the award and learning you have gained from it.

Date Achieved Name of Qualification, Grade/Mark Received

KEY SKILLS

Key Skill 1

Specific example of demonstrating skill using the STAR technique (Situation/Task/Action/Result)

Key Skill 2

Specific example of demonstrating skill using the STAR technique (Situation/Task/Action/Result)

LANGUAGES

Language, (Mother Tongue/Fluent/Business/Conversational/Beginner)

Language, (Mother Tongue/Fluent/Business/Conversational/Beginner)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skill or Technique

Skill or Technique

INTERESTS

Interests (relevant to the occupation/study applying for if possible)

REFERENCES

Available on request

Task for Group 1

Read the job adverts below. Choose the job that you would like to apply to and write your CV (with a personal profile) and a cover letter for this job.

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Looking for a summer job?! Tourist Service Manager

The city of Cambridge is the home of one Britain’s universities. We have a new position for the summer!

We want a person managing visitors’ facilities.

The successful applicant will have responsibility for: improving and updating facilities for visitors managing a team of 10 employees

promoting the city abroad. Apply in writing with CV, to

Director of Leisure Services, City of Cambridge Ben Jones

3, Town Street Cambridge

Babysitter wanted!

Weekends and some evenings. Experience with children necessary! Contact:

Mrs. Lowerence tel: 6784567

Need a summer job?

Do you enjoy meeting new people?

Sol & Sombra Café needs waiters and waitresses! Sundays 11am–8pm

Contact: Barry Murphy

Sol & Sombra Café 3, Apple Street Brighton

Tel: 8432712 solsombra@youyou.com

Computer Bytes Shop

Shop assistant needed Sundays 11am–7pm. Good knowledge of computers necessary.

Apply in writing to:

Mr G. Jeffreys (Manager) gjeffreys@youyou.com

Task for Group 2

Read the descriptions and entry requirements for the academic courses at Durham University, University of Westminster, Lancaster University. Choose the one you are more interested in and write a CV (with a personal profile) and a letter of application applying for a course.

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Durham University

Community and Youth Work

Entry requirements

Normally an upper second class honours degree or equivalent. At least one year’s full-time practice experience in community and youth work or a related field (or part-time equivalent) is also required. We will take into account applicant’s individual circumstances in determining this, and are happy to consider both paid and voluntary experience in determining whether this requirement is met.

Course description

This programme provides an exciting opportunity to develop professional practice that is supported by an in-depth theoretical understanding for those working in a wide range of careers with young people and communities. The programme attracts practitioners from a wide range of contexts and countries, enabling learning in an internationally-comparative context. The fieldwork practice placements enable students to develop their practice within local agencies (e.g. local charities and nongovernmental organisations) with supported from experienced supervisors.

Contact name School of Applied Social Sciences Contact web http://www.durham.ac.uk/sass/sociology

University of Westminster

English Language and Creative Writing

Entry requirements

Applicants are normally required to have a good experience in a relevant subject (eg English language, English literature, creative writing, TESOL or journalism). Applicants will be required to submit two academic references, and they may be invited to an interview (either face to face or via Skype).

Course description

The English Language and Creative Writing aims to allow you to explore the interconnections between your knowledge of how language is used and produced, and your literary compositions. It will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic), as well as leading you to explore the writing process across genres and taking the city of London as one of your main sources of inspiration. Furthermore, the MA will equip you with the intellectual perspectives and the scholarly skills that will prepare you to conduct independent research.

The MA is suitable for students who have taken English language, literature and/or creative writing modules at undergraduate level, and others with experience in these fields. It is of particular interest to those wishing to pursue further study, and those aiming to apply their knowledge of language and the writing process in their careers.

Contact name Admissions Enquiries Office

Contact web http://www.westminster.ac.uk

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University of Westminster

Cultural and Critical Studies

Entry requirements

You are normally required to have a good first degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. You will need fluent written and spoken English to study at postgraduate level. The University offers pre-sessional Summer programmes if you need to improve your English before starting your course.

Course description

This interdisciplinary course offers the opportunity for the advanced study of cultural and critical debates across a range of areas such as the literary, visual and historical fields. The course will interest students with wide-ranging interests in the humanities and interested in contemporary theoretical debates.

Contact name Course Enquiries

Contact web http://www.westminster.ac.uk

Lancaster University

Professional Development

Entry requirements

Demonstration that the modules chosen meet the individual’s needs and the needs of their organisation.

Course description

This course enables you to choose optional modules in line with your professional development needs in subjects such as:

•Leadership and management

•Change management

•Personal effectiveness

You can start with one module and return later to build it into a qualification, or enrol for the qualification at the outset. The ‘step-on, step-off’ nature means you can pace your study to suit your own work/life balance.

Progression routes to Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Degree are available via the Professional Practice route.

Contact name Postgraduate Coordinator

Contact web http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/shm/cetad

(Abridged from: http://www.prospects.ac.uk/search_courses_results.htm?p=2&criteria.keyword=&criteria.su bjectsOfStudy=4278&featured=43289,108330)

Now each student should exchange his/her CV and a cover letter with a student from the other group. Read each other’s CVs and cover letters. Are they appropriate? Share your comments with each other. Would you invite an applicant to an interview, offer a job to an applicant/enroll an applicant on a course? Explain your reasons.

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ANSWER KEY

P. 6, ex. 1

P. 7, ex. 3

My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York, it’s a great place.

But my parents were so worried because of the terrorism attack on September 11 that they decided we would stay in Scotland and spend two weeks up north.

Up north, what you see is what you get – nothing.

I was extremely bored in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but sheep and mountains.

P. 10, ex. 2

Waste-waist; wait-weight; piece-peace; soul-sole; so-sew; plain-plane; pale-pail; see-sea.

P. 12, ex. 2

sleep-slip; feet-fit; reach-rich; feel-fill; deep-dip; weep-whip.

P. 12, ex. 3

1) hot; not; 2) bed; went; 3) slip; 4) dipped; 5) glass; 6) still; 7) whip; 8) fit; 9) hot; bed; 10) hill; 11) grin; 12) sent; 13) still; 14) best; 15) son; 16) pots; pans; smell.

P. 14, ex. 2

Sword; clerk; earn; urgent; third; target; park; boarding; awkward; sermon; emerge; return; dirty; farther; lord; oar; roar; pour; pearl; turnip; disturb; furniture; mirth.

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P. 15, ex. 3

1) hurt; 2) stirred; -shirt; 3) oar; 4) hoarse; 5) storm; 6) curtains; 7) March; 8) garden; 9) awkward; 10) sorry; your.

P. 16, ex. 1

fUry; pUre; hIre; cUre; requIre; wIre; dAre; nightmAre; dAiry; squAre; declAre; rAre; awAre; sevEre; sincEre; inspIre; expIre; tYre.

P. 16, ex. 2

They hAd been reheArsing for a fOrtnight when Roger arrived from Austria. He had been spending a few weeks on a Carinthian lAke, and after a day or two in London was to gO and stay with friends in Scotland. Since Michael had to dIne early to go to the theatre Julia went to meet him by hErself. When she was dressing, Evie, snIffing as usual, told her that she was taking as much pains to mAke herself look nice as if she wEre going to meet a young mAn. She wanted Roger to be proud of her, and cErtainly she looked very young and pretty in her summer frock as she strolled up and down the platfOrm. You would have thought, but wrongly, that she was pErfectly unconscious of the attention she attrActed. Roger, after a month in the sun, was very brown, but he was stIll rather spOtty and he seemed thInner that when he had left London at the New Year. She hUgged him with exuberant affection. He smiled slightly.

P. 20, ex. 2

1) occurred; 2) thinned; 3) rubbed; 4) kidnapped; 5) expelled; 6) equalled; 7) worshipped; 8) referred; 9) inferred; 10) shrugged.

P. 20, ex. 3

1.biggest; wettest;

2.flatter; repaired;

3.referred; propeller;

4.occurred; quitter;

5.getting; shopping;

6.concealed; dripping.

P. 21, ex. 4

1) both; 2) forgotten; 3) both; 4) both; 5) referred; 6) dropping; 7) sitter.

P. 21, ex. 5

trapped; suffering; occurrence; entered; equipped; deference; propellant; compelled; beginning; regrettable.

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P. 21, ex. 6

Entering; opened; ear-splitting; running; jogging; preferring; dialed.

P. 22, ex. 2

Extracts: 2; 1; 4; 6; 5; 3.

20) a-guilt; 21) a-sheer; 22) b-prey; 23) a-sync; 24) b-fainted; 25) c-vain.

P. 31, ex. 2

1) hair/hare; 2) course/coarse; 3) It’s/Its; 4) two/too; 5) been/bean; 6) for/four; 7) son/sun; 8) eight/ate; 9) four/for; 10) two/too; 11) too/two; 12) buy/by; 13) two/too; 14) ad/add; 15) chews/choose; 16) place/plaice; 17) buy/by.

P. 32, ex. 3

1) pair-pear; 2) meat-meet; 3) pail-pale; 4) flower-flour; 5) rows-rose; 6) antaunt; 7) paws-pause; 8) see-sea; 9) chilly-chili; 10) night-knight; 11) son-sun; 12) high-hi; 13) bury-berry; 14) hour-our.

P. 32, ex. 4

Text A: days; blue; air; scent; morning; caught; sight; bee; flower; where; been; due; bare; stalks; flew; sight; inn; beer; while.

Text B: boy; beach; bays; place; while; sun; sea; would; build; dam; waves; won; tide; feet.

P. 35, ex. 1

1.The lamB is a dumB animal.

2.He climBed the hill to the tomB, but his limbs became numB.

3.ComB. your hair, but do not thumB your book.

4.BomBs are now commonly called “shells.”

5.The deBtor, who was a suBtle man, douBted his word, and gave not a crumB of comfort.

6.Take your Psalter and select a joyous Psalm.

7.Do not condemN the Wrong person.

8.I made a solemN vow not to climB on the crumBling bluffs.

9.The plumBer hummed my favorite hymn.

10.Do your Knuckles hurt when you Knit?

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11.Does your Wrist hurt when you Write?

12.The Wrestler had a very Wrinkled face.

13.Please tie my Knapsack with a tight Knot.

14.I Wrapped the Wreath in the Wrong paper.

15.I have a Knack for Kneading bread dough.

P. 44, ex. 4

Sample A – Diary

Sample B – Personal Journal

P. 47, ex. 5

P. 54, ex. 1

A-instructions (directions); B-message; C-thank-you note; D-invitation; E-formal letter of complaint; F-informal letter.

1 – b;

2 – d;

3– a;

4 – c.

P. 60, ex. 2 a – step 8; b – step 1; c – step 7; d – step 10; e – step 4;

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