1 SPEAKING Look at the photos (A-C). Can you identify the people and their occupations? What qualities make them suitable for their occupation and successful in their career? 2 VOCABULARY Work in pairs. Check the meaning of the adjectives below. Then decide which qualities you would need to be successful at each occupation in exercise 1.
1 Read the text. What do you think made him succeed in getting the job? 2 Read the Learn this! box. Find all the examples of the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous in the text and match them with rules (a-d). 3 Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous. Then match each sentence with a rule in the Learn this! box.
1 SPEAKING Describe the photo. What is going on? 2 Read the magazine article. How many types of job interviews are mentioned? Which do you prefer? 3 Read the Listening Strategy. Then listen and underline the correct words to complete the sentences.
1 Read the text. What is unusual about Akrit Jaswal? 2 Read the Learn this! box. Then find all the examples of used to and would in the text. 3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of used to or would. In which sentences is either possible?
1 Read the message board. Who thinks highly of the HR manager? 2 Read the Learn this! box. Find all the adjectives in exercise 1. Do they come before a noun or after a linking verb?3 Look again at the adjectives that come before a noun in exercise 1. Match them with the categories (size, age, colour, etc.) in the Learn this! box.